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• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it's just a nice place to sit and think. So here's my list of Things I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the ... pre-med (I always get asked that when people find out my major). I ... about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  see some of my friends celebrate the completion of four successful years ... this summer, I decided to expand my horizons a little more. Here's a before picture of my cubicle. We'll see how it looks at the end of the

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  I'm back at my parents' home now (watching reruns of Buffy the ... , an Irish place near my house. We sat right next to the traditional ... ; Cheese Company, and mango juice. My parents have visited many times during

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  the 30-minute read, except for the new guy (that's me). My average is ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used ... components of my job: reading and writing. Matt, Mitra and Allison have all

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  action folks), I've been thinking back a bit to my college interviews. My ... my other interviews. My Dartmouth interviewer was so cool as to make it one of my new top choices (that, combined with a major in geography

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  .In my hometown, the houses were so far apart you could yell “trick or ... down a gravel road. So every Halloween, my “route” consisted of exactly one stop: my grandma’s house, a quarter mile away.We’d shuffle down the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert ... caught in this "not unpleasant in-between" in my last blog. No longer in ... break during my gap year, and this summer I left Europe for a very long

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best ... mental pain instead of physical pain. It was free food, so I made my way up ... ”. It can’t be that bad right? WRONG. My pride as an Asian with spice

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 Pt.2 lecture videos go brr

  

  . There are few projects I have worked on at MIT that have truly defined my ... here we are. Oh and one last thing-- in my post about IAP plans, I ... of my favorite screenshots from the lectures + the outfits I wore

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  my bike, recruited a friend, and returned a few hours later. The street ... my shirt. “That album got me through a breakup,” said the ... -suited to my style. So many people here looked like what I want to be. At the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , and i felt awful. my throat was sore, i simultaneously felt hot and cold, and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... pass and started rifling through my emails. i thought, should i go to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  a college campus (and at my alma mater no less) exposes me to random ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... ) made me relive the times i grinded through those tedious psets with my

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  that was my [annotation note="Audacious, in retrospect, given that I had ... of things off my proverbial plate."]Awhile ago,[/annotation] I got an ... other Chinese-speaking students and parents than my idiomatic English

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  forward to doing these programs since high school, i set my hopes on doing it in 2021. my acceptance transferred over a year, which made for an excellent contingency plan. in my sophomore fall semester, I haphazardly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  classes is actually, uh, not a break, even if you don't have any class. My ... afternoon, I turned in my last pset, made some bread and a chickpea stew, and ... is half my usual amount, I was energized by Friday's leftover freedom

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week. But looking at my last, or next-to-last weeks, I was quite hosed too. I ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] the fog, I think, captures my mood right now[/caption] the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  night because my shoulder was so sore. oops, guess physical activity ain ... my apartment to come chill on [annotation note="the lawn in front of ... what she's doing. barbecuing — my apartment has a communal area for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  little power to actually change anything. There’s no ‘taking my anger to ... myself holding back my input on certain issues because I get that Look- why ... battles, just on different fronts. Today, I am not mincing my words. Even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  a dorm to me -- it's a living space that houses some of my most favorite memories, events, and people, and it's an integral part of my MIT ... will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020