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• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  monitoring and adjusting orientation. Life at MIT isn’t so different. You ... when all you want to do is sleep. Because if you don't maintain attitude ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  building one thing or another, all the time. But now I'm worried that I won't ... grades aren't everything, but I'd like to get decent enough grades to apply ... ... they're fun for me, but I don't have any true talent for them... I'm a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  I really don't like about CPW is that I suddenly have to convert to ... words too fast and people can't understand me and I have to repeat myself and I don't like it. (You try saying "biology and brain and cognitive

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  it’s true that many people here tend to overcommit themselves, this isn’t ... isn’t quite … infinite. Disappointing, isn’t it?  The truth is that the Infinite isn’t infinite … most of the time. Not when your mindnumbingly long

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  just never called an FSM: the state of matter.   Right, isn’t that ... : |---|-----|---|-----|---| | F | OP1 | S | OP2 | T | |---|-----|---|-----|---| F stands for ... T stands for “trailing” as in “trailing number”. By now, you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  professors’ interactions with students in an informal setting. TwT videos are ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and finally got the opportunity to connect with the team when my neighbor, Tho T

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... orientation, I broke down crying. Despite the homesickness, there wasn’t a ... different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust ... experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn't ... . So, I must confess: before this trip, I didn't know much about Armenia

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... reasons Didn't Cha Know by Erykah Badu I'm trying to decide Which way to go

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  my favorite things together." I also didn't have the confidence to ... fun and intimidating, but that meant I couldn't frequently step back and ... proportions ended up different from the draft. Color I haven't painted a mural

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  productive I am right now. I haven't even done any work today. Today was ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed ... down again. Couldn't go to sleep. I watched Hermitcraft videos for two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or ... . Unfortunately, it wasn’t drilled into our heads enough, because neither my two ... wouldn’t be able to sustain the fall damage, and I’m scrambling, clambering

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  it doesn't. some groups renew themselves every four years with zero ... . that doesn't mean that a graduate runs the group themselves, but that ... isn't always a bad thing; it's a way to extend institutional memory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  define your budget and expected costs. You can't expect people to live with you if the details are hazy (at least I wouldn't). Having clearly ... open and let bugs in. They won't clean the bathroom. It's irritating, it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... won’t work, you’d never get anything done.  # As it turns out, though

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort ... activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss out on anything at my dorm. At home, though, I don't have that issue

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  .[/annotation] but ultimately, I realized that this class wasn't worth it. it wasn't ... mathematics!"]majors[/annotation] and it wasn't a graduation requirement and I wasn't enjoying it at all. I wanted to devote more energy to the other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But ... accumulated into internal goosebumps. And when that wasn't enough, eventually ... sob. I can't remember the last time I cried like that. Alone and on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students ... , basic Japanese, partial differential equations (I don't know multivariable ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  morning and you're feeling overwhelmed. Maybe that problem isn't making ... power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015