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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Without a doubt, I think every student here can agree that problem ... is my normal setup: I always carry my single notebook that randomly ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  1/14/24 A while back, just over 2 years ago, I wrote a similar blog to this one, in which I recounted the days of the semester through images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  : while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... . the only times i actually enjoyed frats were when around 30 other people ... changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  What I made in my documentary class three videos and many, many lessons

  

  This semester I took 21W.790[J] Short Attention Span Documentary ... for 2022. I love photography and writing, and video is a nice marriage of visuals and storytelling. But, once the summer came along, and I was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  I decided this summer was the summer I’d get my life together, once and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of confusion and unease when it comes to my future. I taught in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  Birthday Dad! And also Happy Muslim Women’s Day! I’ve been toying with the ... honest, I didn’t quite know where to start. Do I talk about the Muslim Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  Well hello there it's been a while and I'm am ridden with guilt and embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been endless things happening all at once. Most importantly: 1) I finished my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

   One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the ... rather difficult one, and remember all of the good books I found time to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  Hey all! I haven't been around this site in months, and rather than ... , I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen here. Since like November. Well, fine, one sentence: I ended up failing

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years, as I'm working at CTD again this year as an RTA for Neuroscience and ... MIT. My summer job doesn't start until June 23rd, though, so I've been

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Can I really become an EMT?

  If the psets aren’t keeping you busy enough you can become an EMT while at MIT!
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  's baby really happened. Okay, this entry is not really negative, but I ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... WEEK OF CLASSES Monday - Calculate the Scores I Need to Pass So far, I haven't really locked in with the full PNR mindset. I did every pset for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June. I often find myself flitting from coast to coast, but still haven

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  note: i wrote this as a project for #BlogstonCommons, which was a mini-outing-blog-challenge that i did with a few other bloggers where we ... quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt them. From sudden cold rushes at the thought that I’d only taken X number of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... this stuff up. Okay, maybe you can, but I'm not, I swear). To make matters worse, I was wearing open heels, and had recently showered (it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006