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• 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
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and this year’s apps are open) was “when was the first time you really felt like a…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  When I’m sad, or there’s some conundrum in my life that I need to process, or I’m riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I’m so stressed that…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  I love traveling alone on public transportation. I like staring out the window watching the cold concrete walls zoom by as I just sit. I’ve always liked just sitting in…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  I am a huge reader. I love hearing stories and telling them. I love reformulating them, retelling them, carrying them alongside me. I love storytelling so much that it’s become…

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  A bit ago, the larger group my UROP lab is a part of had a free lunch event. I was initially hesitant about going since it seemed like the event…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  were some exceptional circumstances that put MIT on Pass ... final, which can happen at any time during your MIT undergrad ... MIT students and potential applicants. I think a much more valuable

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had the draft saved in a folder outside of the vortex folder on my desktop…

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  asked for a better professor. I get so many questions asking if MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taylor swift songs as applicants emergency evermore post

  

  24 hours ago, Taylor Swift came out with a new album and everyone lost their minds. If you haven’t listened to it yet, please go do that right now and…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 11, 2020