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  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note ... used to like to take every elevator and every stairwell in [annotation

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  intersection of their everyday language and mathematical jargon is non-empty. In other words, MIT is overrun with math people who cannot help but speak in tongues math gibberish. It’s almost inevitable in this little cauldron of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... work-heavy, which can obviously be used later in life. Also the community

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  drawing class Every Tuesday evening, right as the sun was setting in ... whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... drawing I must preface that I never thought of myself as a drawer. In fact

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on Friday, September 30, but I had to invent what happened in the branches I ... something in the afternoon, eat dinner, then the ending. If it's a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the ... between the two lovers is steeped in racial and cultural differences. In ... this has turned out to be somewhat true in that I have never had a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  between thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in writing. specifically, a thesis is introduced at the beginning of a text (oftentimes in the form of a ... because people have applied this framework in a broad range of settings; it

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... down. In hindsight, I know that this was just anxiety about something ... it terrified me. In 4th grade, I started to get more anxious about my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is versions away from the Afeefah that is sitting in her childhood bedroom

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was ... I didn't want a smoothie after all, then went off in search of the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... correctly, one of the bloggers in our meeting mentioned that they would read the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... this. And because of it, I've been thinking a lot about what he said. In

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  was in high school i never felt really sad when the seniors graduated, because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or ... people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  answer is no, you are not required to take AP exams for classes in which ... , and if your school, as a condition of your enrollment in an AP course ... not to take the test, you do not need to notify us. In other, happier

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore. Because, you know, American food? Something I’ve seen in the movies. The way ... part in reducing my initial culture shock. But sometimes I trip, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  (especially as they appear in the Tumblr studyblr community). I had long ago lodged “MBTI” (the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) into a closet in my head ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... ’t like biology). Nevertheless, MIT leads the world in its biology research ... major, there is a lot of work in making things like MRI’s, CAT scans

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016