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• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip ... whizzed by like a door violently swinging open on its hinges, revealing to ... relieving— none of that pressure to 'forge new bonds' and make small talk. All

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  'm going to do? I'm going to find out your username, and get my workstation ... organizations to carry on my values, as new members come in with their own ... the brain’s inability to process an overwhelming event than by the event

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

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  . I'm going to need all the luck I can get. ... have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  get too stressed out! Go out with your friends. Give out candy to cute ... understanding with teachers and schools. Your recommendations do not need to be in ... processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Riddle Me This The return of the puzzles.

  

  "How do I get to New Amsterdam?" "Just follow that road and don't be ... stifling. We just couldn't wait to get out of the place. (13) Enjoy! ... The return of the puzzles. Try your hand at this one. An entry about

  • by Bryan
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to ... ."]rate[/annotation], but i might as well try to get there sooner than later. [annotation note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... where nothing makes sense, and to this day I am inspired by his dedication

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  being able to sit and see nothing but a wall of water and just catch your ... " to get help, I felt like I could exist a little bit easier knowing I ... time at MIT. Some semesters go by better than others, but at this point

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  chair, which means I get to plan things that I always wanted to do and ... , offering advice on how to get tickets, which games would be best, and other ... losing by about 5 points, though--it seemed like their adversaries, the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... terrified. I worried that I wouldn't get into any school. I spent that week solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  lump, slowly pull upwards to elongate and thin out the walls. You’re ... your kidney tools over the inside and outside walls to scrape off excess ... , but you have to brace your fingers and move more slowly when pulling

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the ... , when do you add salt to your okra? At the beginning? Or the end? (student replies that she adds salt at the end to prevent okra from getting watery

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  to buy food to get by, which fed into the ongoing emotional turmoil ... get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some ... . It is a tedious process, but I cling to every instruction we get

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  story ended up winning a national award, and I flew to New York City for ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to ... bashes a thinly-disguised ex and upload it to Soundcloud only to get two

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  . Eventually it stopped working entirely. We did get a new toaster, though, and ... always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... somewhere dry or else it gets a really weird color to it, etc. 8. Trash bags

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

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  "You should really cherish your time at MIT." And I thought to myself ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... , even going so far as to say that I feel othered by them. They've find my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  meeting, he gave me a list of professors to get in touch with. One of them ... we could actually get to all my questions. There’s now an e-mail thread ... , great - famous person for an advisor. I'm not going to get any attention

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have ... limited only by your imagination. Okay, hope that helped, Anonymous... if

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  the bloggers telling them that if there were 6 new posts by tomorrow at ... spontaneous trip to Washington D.C. to visit one of my friends, followed by a ... 's one thing that will help me get through psets, a ton of things to do

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  I set to work." *Accompanied by a drawing of what I assume was meant ... finish writing a script, and are about to plot your data in a way that you ... to figure out what was wrong and get my numbers to reasonable values. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012