Search

Search Results

• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  It’s a beautiful spring day here at MIT – the sun is peeking through ... -your-rain-jacket-everywhere weather). What better way to enjoy this good weather than by going on a little adventure? I’ve been wanting to do a blog showcasing MIT’s many

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , which is honestly an okay ratio in my opinion. Especially at a school ... a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the ... with a [annotation note="woo!"] C-,[/annotation] but still this took up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue ... , with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  useful.  If you’re planning to forgo a mealplan, I’d recommend that you actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  listen. this current winter break I’ve been averaging about a bath per day ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  isn't putting on shows, but rehearsing. a few years ago i found some improv companies online, and i looked at the pictures and read a bunch of reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... + connections on LinkedIn, but he says it's because I dress like a kid, to which I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  , and, for the most part, I have been[annotation note='I promise that a ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... note="cj: a first-year advising seminar is a class that some first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  My November is a looming list of tasks that must be accomplished. The ... the bright side, I have been doing a lot of sleep... maybe even too much sleep. Here's a list of the stuff I have to get done, and the amount of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes- khaki shorts and a lion-face-print top, since it’s a warm spring day and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a consequence of being a professional perfectionist, pessimist and long-term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be coming out on things like being a black person in China, language learning ... be coming soon, I promise, but these posts have a lot of moving parts

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  *written by Grace C. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series*   It’s the end of finals. I’m sitting at a ... packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... something else instead. Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a ... are MIT admits, they usually frame this uncertainty as a problem, which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017