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• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these past semesters have been quite a transformative experience for me; (maybe ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  posting--or for a more dramatic flair, The 7 Capital Vices I Have Oft ... have ideas for posts that are going to be great!! So great! I just need ... often get distracted by other stuff and lose passion for the initial idea

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All ... do this for two reasons: One, I want to show you that, despite our ... see the magic of this place going away for me. This is the place I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did ... connection with the nation--I’m just traveling, for once in my life. While

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... undeniably call mine. I feel that for a long time I was okay with this because it was also true for everyone around me. None of my friends knew what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... reason for being late was unfortunately not excused by my teacher). Rapid ... common reason for injury is having something in your mouth while sneezing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  fierce the cultures of MIT dorms can be. Also, for reference, this post on ... for good, MIT is a quintessential expression of America at its best ... nothing can change our commitment to tackling big, important problems for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  sang was a farewell concert for our graduating seniors. Last night we ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... month. I am so grateful for all of this.   I'd like to think MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am, slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my ... , and I see so much potential for how virtual reality could bring us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  topic for more than ten or fifteen minutes without starting to wander or ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It ... ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes ... injury. It’s probably because for some, the uncertainty of fulfilling a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... help promote the 'useful arts,' the 'arts' is short for 'artisanship,' as ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  'm doing great. I got ten hours of sleep last night, made oatmeal for ... Guthrie," I've registered for ceramics glasses over IAP, and after years of ... sparkle with intensity, and the stakes for everything seem higher, even

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming ... school for at least 3-5 minutes, it's hard to tell whether or not that was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  procedures for you (brought to you by Felix Sun ’15 and Chelsea Voss’15 who did ... Ballroom Dance team for the past 3 years, oh, may be two, since I was away for a year (I did ballroom with the Cambridge team though!) Anyway

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  teams (team 2 could only trade with teams 1 and 3, for example). On ... 4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... , because those are what we'll need in the future. After leading for two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October ... will always be more. Basically, you start to see this: For me, the ... 's hard for me to believe, too.) It has actually been finding the balance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  right now, I'd like to discuss something that's been on my mind for a few ... Timeline. Timeline allows for your friends to basically scroll back through ... bothers me. In the beginning, Facebook essentially served as a platform for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011