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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , which is where most of my hours from firehose come from. What’s great ... all of you (@ me) trying to simultaneously respond to emails, scroll on

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to ... my place here. one of the most sure things about sophomore year is my ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  part of the team here. Some of my closest friends are on the swim team ... , life advice, or just want someone to talk to.” Diving student-athlete: “Being a student athlete at MIT is definitely worthwhile. It’s nice to be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... to drive or make small talk or do any of the million mundane and just ... is to dislike noise. Instead of awkward small talk, people were willing

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  of my lofted bed in Simmons until I agreed to go on this adventure with ... . That part really is kind of random and up to God, the universe, whomever ... opportunities for getting to know people, which increases the likelihood of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  (known as reading period, which is when we're given a couple of days off to ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  , and intuitive, inherent beauty. Or, to put it in the words of ... two months working for one of the most exciting companies on the planet ... new data and apply novel ways of thinking to improving the driving

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  need to say "How's the weather?" or "What time is it?" or "My grandmother is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... stuff" to "the police will come" to "The End of Days is upon us

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  single-file to get on the bus, and on the way out of the classroom I threw ... , each of which corresponds to a city with a distinctive ballet style and ... the arms and the artistic nature of the body (as opposed to technique or

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  plenty of time in the afternoons and on the weekends to explore as much of ... is one of the largest public parks in Madrid. According to its tourism webpage, the park is sometimes referred to as "the green lungs of the city

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Tuesday. Is this a blog entry about my trip there? Of course! On Friday I ... to, and describing some kind of random fact or talent. I'll let Chris ... people knew it too, which is why we had a massive line and a lot of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  of them to see which one was better. And that's how I tricked myself ... decided to make use of my aloneness by putting Hell Above on full blast ... the lyrics to every song on this fucking album and I am not ashamed of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through ... work with faculty on any number of important projects, such as the MIT ... 40-to-1 return on investment." In the same way that President

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  is one of the most crucial parts of flying a spacecraft, which is why ... together. True design is the very core of a product, which manifests itself ... philosophy, which is why I've always dreamed of joining their Product Design

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  the next 5 days or so. We hope to meet with 3 students from the University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape ... butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  to stand in two different lines, on either side of baggage collection ... needed to get from Dulles Airport to Union Station -- which is about a 40 ... on. Mumford & Sons is up. It occurs to me as I write this that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  of mass dissemination of images. It is, rather, a Weltanschauung which ... supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the ... is the sun which never sets over the empire of modern passivity. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Bluebiked to Star Market (off map) in Somerville to restock on frozen fries ... 's hard to overhear more than a phrase or two when you're just going about ... , I am now thinking that supermarket basil plants are bound to die. On

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  span of moments in which you’re not quite ready to accept the fact that ... instrument while listening to a song. or suddenly becoming conscious of ... passive, detached manner the point after which it is too late to ask for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  . In the long run, it's better to judge the rest of MIT - and its ... . :) Donating blood or volunteering at a blood drive is one of the easiest and ... going to respect you simply based on the title (or titles) you hold

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008