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• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  how your shoes sink into some sand. I’ve been made to feel guilty about ... time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  ’s a myriad of expressions on their different faces that I’m trying to ... emptiness to be emanating from such a small human being. We had just stepped ... group began to use the translator to address them. He had been coming to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  ’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my bed to hug my pillow. There’s something absolutely beautiful about ... weeks—that is to say, I’ve been floating around in the bubble built around

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  these projects alone. You are not expected to know how to build robots from scratch or how to code – but you are expected to collaborate and ask ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  would love to learn more about how we interact and utilize media in the ... in. I don't know how to play poker, but sure, I'll learn and play. I ... I'm currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  asked Ayo if she'd write up how it came to be so I could post it. She did ... cute how-to on them). The heels were involved because well Dancing in ... A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  do funny things to your brain. ------------- On Friday, I got all ... in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... , which freaked me out a bit. "How are you doing?" Well, I thought

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  trip and started looking in to how I could attend. Maddie Hickman is ... warrants two blog entries. This is not because I want to hog the ... awesome little class that I like to call Toy Design. Also, if you can wrack

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  of our sessions are flooded with people eager to learn how to make cool ... really hard to grow everything. I’m so excited to learn how to make all of the things, and perhaps even more excited to teach others how to make

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  , I'm still figuring out how to use Athena command prompts ... we could all settle on and agree to how certain design ideas were ... --and it never ceases to amaze me how talented and dedicated they all are

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  . In retrospect, this might just have been because I didn't know how to ... matter how much effort I put into something, I was just doomed to not ... Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  , exactly; I just didn't know how to write that kind of paper. I didn ... out how the paper was meant to be written: if only I had checked in ... Heads up: this post contains references (italicized) to the song

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... (I mean, look at how many other things they have to learn!). Which was ... hardware other than my keyboard. Even MIT's attitude towards learning how to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with ... myself a maker until I've learned how to operate heavy machinery? I feel ... aspect to how crafting has historically been relegated as a frivolous

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my time, and how that measures up to my expectations. Even though I was

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a ... other people within my major. I didn't really know how to code until I ... Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully ... after they happened to try to remember if we said everything we wanted to ... , we had a 0-45 min wait time for our bus depending on how ready

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do ... People change, and that includes you. You don’t have to live up to ... that your past self did, without having to do them again. You can admire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing where companies set up booths to display the latest gadgets they are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat ... , I’m being given a lot more path-critical items to do, and as I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017