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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to distracting myself with incremental games. You know, games like Cookie Clicker or something, where you unlock progressively…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned many important life lessons about food, mostly through trial and error. A lot of error. Here’s…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  Hi, long time no see. Well, for me it’s been a while. I’ve been silent on the blogs for about three weeks, far longer than I ever want to be…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  It’s that point in the semester when days and weeks blur together in a haze of pset after pset, lecture after lecture, and a midterm always just on the horizon.…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i’ve previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the only thing i can do…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  Happy November! Two days ago, it snowed for the first time this fall in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment to enjoy these various…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question “why do you want to be a blogger”: i want to…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally, in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I got up in the morning, a…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking part of during my junior…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  A quick note before I start: VOTE (if you can)! Find your polling place here or drop off ur absentee ballot at a drop-off location: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ———— In the past…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester even in normal times, from anecdotal accounts. In these ‘unprecedented times’,  I’m finding that it’s exponentially worse.…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I’m in the midst of a lot of school and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  This (mostly) isn’t a post about application essay advice. But, if you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for some essay advice from the bloggers of…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster. Waste hours for fun,…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it’s the first time in a while that I’ve been awake this early. Of the four people I’m sharing a room with, I’m…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  I’m writing today to remind our applicants that we do not give any kind of preferential “bump” to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. This is a longstanding…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you’ve read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I’ve talked about my experiences on the Burton Conner…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I decided that I would…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I’m working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It’s a window into…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020