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• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... March, we visited every station on the New York City subway in a 29-hour ... I've been living in New York City, in a cruft house named LoTaD, short

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon ... have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  just finished my freshman year, and what a scary and tumultuous time it ... . This means that if you get a passing grade (70-100) it will show up on your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  At MIT, a lot of groups use Slack to stay connected. It's like a big ... like discord for your dad. Most groups have a general announcements tab ... , and [often among student groups] a stalking channel. This is where you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  down a pinterest-boarding, wishlist-making, room-blue-printing spiral. By the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in ... probably took a year off our lives — story for another time?— it gave us time

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i have been here and there, the last six years. i think a lot of ... . like how to play a game where i try to escape from hell, and how to play ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... Experimentation I also shopped 21M.601 - Drawing for Designers for a couple weeks ... .02 - Physics II 8.02 is a [annotation note="General Institute Requirement, aka a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A ...  Normal People, and this short story is a predecessor to the novel, featuring Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the ... 't want to spend that much time away from mit." i never applied to a misti ... , making friends you see for but a few months. that's what summer camp is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ’t work at MIT anymore. I actually haven’t worked at MIT for a whole week ... ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just ... understatement here, I might be a tad…scared? It’s literally everything I’ve been

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  four months ago i made a post about being back in east campus saying ... a home when i was entering mit as a frosh, we knew, we all knew, that ... . as ankita talked about in the post i linked, renovation is a big deal

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  'm back on campus, but more than a year has elapsed, and i'm a junior now ... 't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... my experiences abroad a few years ago, i would hang out with college

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  climbing a mountain, and this year's application process felt a little bit ... united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a ... arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to welcome them to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... a bit later. I was scheduling a different blog for today, but then I ... Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  's a weekly-ish event, usually held around 10 PM, where we all come ... . Ostensibly, discussion is centered around a topic like "identity" or "community", leading with a question like "what does it mean to be you?" or "what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a ... House of Representatives, and they went through the readings like it was a farce. It basically allows a government-appointed council to detain a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  them know how we’re doing now that the semester is over, a text message sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... actually not required for the computer science major, and I was a comp sci ... either. Instead, I took 6.042, a discrete math class. Sophomore fall

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020