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• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , "Rona, you used to dress better in high school. Then you went to MIT." It ... it also started to feel mandatory. Then I got to MIT and stopped ... still confused during my chemistry lecture because what even is the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s ... ) “they would probably say ‘He’s Spock from Stah Trek!’” Now Nimoy is 83 ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by MIT ... length, but a flugelhorn is fatter. It's like what would happen to a ... 'm aware), which is a little room equipped with a piano and music stands, so

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  I graduate tomorrow, so I guess this is my last entry here, or ... , making you rethink your values, and so on, MIT can do interesting things to ... people, mostly MIT people. I'll be working in Cambridge, as a software

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  is an event where over two thousand high school students come to MIT’s ... blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out ... eating habits too. Sunday I wake up late, as [annotation note="the Harvard-MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  time. MIT is the opportunity of a lifetime and you can shape your ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if ... is really valuable: wherever you go, whatever you do, remember to check

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project ... dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do things[annotation note="which, honestly, is more of a kind of savior complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  accredited at MIT. MIT is an ecosystem of buzzwords. “Finding the next…”, “Breakthrough in…”, MIT is discovery, invention, and innovation. We are lucky to ... by Tananya Prankprakma and Sophia Wang   This post is a love

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip ... -by-the-Sea Play DDR in the Game Room Go rock climbing in Dupont Check out the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  Cube MIT’s new music building is best described as three featureless ... ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... ). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  covers summer, but possibly the biggest thing skewing my data is the Great ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... math at night is never fun. What I've found is that staying up late is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... the typical MIT student with a huge ego I say to Matt and Ben "Psh, I can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  upwards, almost pulling the plastic part off the metal (it is a U-Lock, even though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A ... assume the lock is supposed to go while you are riding the bike. Again

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006