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• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88 ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... simple it is. I make it every week or so for my family in the evenings and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the past month. i crocheted a red scarf for myself earlier this year, and my ... painted my nails red before i went out for halloween, and i keep meaning to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  getting rejected by a lot of things. I've been dating the same person for a ... textbooks. Somewhat for 24.915 (Acoustic Phonetics) and somewhat for my ... thankful to MIT for letting me do something so niche for such a massive

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  album"]musicals,[/annotation] hiked in national parks, stopped for free wi-fi so I could take video calls for my new job (which I had already started ... . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I ... world. I struggled and flailed and had no idea what I was doing for most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  So, let me set the scene for the [annotation note="Some would call it ... that you'll join me in solidarity for eating snacks during the next meeting then WE OUT for sure!! Kellen: Snack liberation is very important

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... max capacity for seven hours straight. Change study locations often ... 's good for your productivity. Eat your meals in the dining hall. A day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... from my college experience? For example, I had zero doubts about being a ... be a great resource for quelling such fears!]  Now, Biology isn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... influenza. 1. Shock For the duration of the phone call, I don’t remember much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words ... remotely have feelings for. So I ended up dating a boy (we’ll call him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... river accompanied our walk. For an hour, time slowed, and we were rulers ... to bed for hours, and left me insatiable for sleep. Sometime during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  California for ten years now, but unlike other sun-loving transplants, I ... , crispy leaves ripe for the leaping, apple picking, cinnamon and nutmeg ... pie I found on the internet for all you visual learners out there. Two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have ... drop Wednesday: Same as Monday, substitute psetting for issue night and ... : Find a way that optimizes this situation for amount of time available

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  out my blogs apologizing for my lack of blogging, but I think I've said ... realized I couldn't stand the thought of being away from MIT for summer (2016 ... from MIT. But don't just take my word for it, check him out on MIT OCW

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... more productive. For those of you who can't conceive of inventing time ... your commitments. It seems weird to think that, for some students here

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011