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• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro acting i did a scripted paired scene, and then i did a monologue. it came

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of ... was probably something like a 50% (I’m looking at you 6.046). There’ll be a great time constraint on difficult problems, and an attendant

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge current MIT students at the annual Trashion Show. The MIT Trashion Show is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the ... freshman year. With a large majority of freshman taking it and it being notoriously difficult(relative to other freshman classes), 8.01 has a bonding

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... first two years of med school was HARD as a MIT grad. But you ask: doesn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  week and then get off early on Friday. That changed a bit this week ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun. A year ago I read Matt McGann's entry about some super-special secret

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  So it's been almost exactly a week since I last put together a blog ... applies, although I suppose the definition of work is a little more flexible now than it is during the actual term. Which is a very good thing, in my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  I visited CMU this weekend! This is pretty long, so here's a table of ... go to CMIMC, in Carnegie Mellon, and I had a great time. It went quite ... with a big group with lots of people I was close friends with. This visit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  the sense I got from friends on social media was a general consensus of something like relief. It was certainly a tumultuous year on a global scale ... . On a more personal note, it definitely wasn’t my best year, but here at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  admissions, then all I can remind you is that success is not always a straight ... Pat. I am a first-year Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab (after two years as a master's student at MIT) working on space cyborg and wearable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... Friday night when I ran into a couple of my sisters. Them: Where are you ... us. We haven’t seen you all week. me: I mean… okay. I am not a hard

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but ... mentions or finds it. so, i’m writing a very high effort blog about fire ... day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... realized that most real-life houses were a lot more boring :("]quickly faded ... adored my art teacher.  At a certain point, though, I started being coined

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... beside me a student from another college has a massive book open beside her ... minutes, a shadow crosses the window, cast by a pedestrian or two walking by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... figure that out. That class requires a different mode of thinking that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... April, but in reality, last spring was just a very poor approximation of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  many, many, many more. My life as a college student has pretty much been a series of applications, and today I feel that going through so many ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... work behind a glossy desk, property of a company that paid more than I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021