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• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  better. Because every week is a countdown to Friday. But that's okay. It gets so much better, you have no idea. Your junior year of high school is ... 'm proud of you for going on for four years strong. Just make sure to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  reason, my elementary school went up to sixth grade instead of ending at ... in our year, except Happy by Pharrell Williams, which is an inherently ... to her school for some sort of concert, and when she sang Tonight I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  floors, or perhaps only those on the first few floors dared to install ... often got stuck, which meant I could talk to any engineer on my team to ... What really happens during a 9-to-5 job? Is it possible that people

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  started to get shin splints, which, scientifically speaking, is when your ... to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind that you are ready to get down to business. So, your first step is ... case you didn't know, the GC is the guardian and gatekeeper of the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  feedback on implementation details and potential difficulties, which is ... other instructors to make piazza posts where every instance of OH is ... ’m grateful to web.lab for is that it produced a rare instance of value

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... , early on Sunday morning, I was lying on the floor. I don't tend to lie

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  finally put a ring on it,” or “Engaged to the institute!” While this quip is ... molded, semi-precious or precious metal for which they paid large sums of ... non-MIT perspective. Clearly the intent of participants is to appear

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  and 6.009 is dead (I have no more assignments or grades to be inputted ... maybe it'll treat me better than 6.009. I also really liked 042, which is ... Is King. I've been meaning to get back into reading, as many of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  small but necessary acts of self-care. So here is something to help you ... emails, phone calls, and blog comments, to say nothing of spillovers to ... ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be ... . None of this is to say that I don’t adore beauty the same way anybody ... crossposted on Substack here. I've never really wanted to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  and went to go sit down on one of the chairs to have a well-deserved sip ... a flight at 10pm. it's in 7 hours, which is better than 19. This means ... to the gate. it looks like the flight is still on time, and boarding is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – researchers fold to academic pressures and compromise on the quality of their ... mindset by punishing or rewarding us based on our work and how good it is

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... th president, Dr. L. Rafael Reif, is a member of First Gen!
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  the end of all that is to go on yet another Zoom call, or even just ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to ... Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in ... made the trip to cheer for our friends on the MIT Cross Country teams

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  meant to catch up on steins;gate 0 but never did, i watched some amount of ... criticism on how cringy freshman year Nisha [annotation note="or still am idk ... directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, or SHASS, to ... from DUSP, which conducts its own talks once or twice a year to let ... Are you interested in any of: making governments work better

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The ... year, but I had gotten to know them better during that one week at home ... , including the aforementioned two, in MacGregor, which is where a large portion

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011