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• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  My friend Eric recently wrote a blog post about isolation at Harvard ... other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  nearly two years ago, I co-wrote this blog discussing my experiences ... did my freshman year. my decision to commit to Kinematix full ... served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my ... lot. Additionally, I've been attempting not to repeat my ... ever and spent time with my [annotation note="In Greek life you typically

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... started the weekend off poorly. My only class ended early and told us that ... the very end of the break. This soured my mood for most of Friday

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  internship; the world would be my oyster. And I was right about those things ... that. Hell, I did last IAP with my two classes. At the same time, I narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  about my relationship with poetry over the years. Here’s the earliest poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... out a large survey [annotation note="checking my emails from ian waitz ... being the final plan. And so, I held off on declaring my gap semester and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... breaking down in the middle of the loopty loop or like my legs just seized up during my sprint. I've spent this past semester doing so much and learning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  wanted to become an economist. That one actually stuck. My parents come from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a last hurrah, my final journey into the world as a child. I took this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  acquaintances. However, I do have a very small amount of special people in my life ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... food…… Oh and I took your iphone earlier because my phone was dead….. And

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my family's basement, which contained my father's office, flooded during a terrible rain storm. My father, an electrical engineer who had swapped a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance ... 's hardships and stupidities were swept away from my little corner of the ... revealed my inner wuss by leaving halfway into the competition in order to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  first this is no big deal, but then the Friday after Christmas, I find my ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my computer, its finally back to running. (Ok, cool part, I managed to trick my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  on speaking terms while my overnight host was a biology major who got ... my host and her hallmates, or the spontaneous midnight tour of the MIT tunnels, or the fact that my host and I found an elevator in the great

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My ... . Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact that my camera lacks image stabilization doesn’t help… Also, if you don

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  . I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... comfiest (sp?) chairs on campus are in my very own place of employment. The ... Conner, except my classes, which are also in Political Science. Dewey is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  When I found out Hank Green would be our commencement speaker, my ... ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... for good. They nurtured my love for learning in and of itself. Plus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out to my friends: fyi: I maintain an email list for my friends. It's a ... frequent during my junior year, which I think is at least partly attributed

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... started rubbing off and making my feet black. There’s this video my parents will randomly send me of little me and my cousins on our trampoline

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023