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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  [caption id="attachment_101812" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Peep the Grand Tetons[/caption] This spring, I had the chance to reconnect with my rural Wyoming roots through my work at MIT. As someone who has

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  Spring season has started, and guess who got to lace up their cleats and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed it: I did!…

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now i…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  and Gloria soon enough. The Two Left Behind Waly: I walked from MIT to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  If you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, or (god forbid) LinkedIn, you might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an article about Gen Z and the job market.…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  Recently, I’ve been trying to record music. I have a mic setup thanks to the rap class I’m taking this semester with Lupe Fiasco; my living group has a piano…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  on Tuesday, I turned 22. it wasn’t nearly as blissful as turning 21 because, well, there’s no milestone associated with this age (besides being able to play the Taylor Swift…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular…

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was because of the academic environment i was raised in – other people doing well on…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever met in person at MIT post-CPW) Kylee C. '23. Few things on God’s green earth fill my little southern heart with as much delight and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  Last week, one of my friends, “Mike”, asked me if I had any Valentine’s Day plans. I didn’t, so he asked me if I wanted to go out to a…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  with it. After a few seconds of silence, she said, "This is such an MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  I spent it at MIT, and partially because I've been trying to avoid ... [annotation note="given that I came into MIT at 17, I think I can be forgiven for that."]at some point during my MIT years.[/annotation] We also

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ice skating don't fall

  

  wayne: it’s just like walking, you put one foot in front of the other cj: does it wayne: nooo you’re marching, like, go a little forward and let yourself glide…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  humanities (yes, MIT has an entire department called “humanities”) to math; I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  I have read slightly over 200 pages’ worth of papers this week. I procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said papers for…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... burnout ever again. I had already made it to MIT, didn’t I deserve a break ... to work on said UROP, because, well, it's MIT and the firehose of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022