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• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  reminds me that formality is something we don’t actually have to follow when we don’t want to. So with that, I’m going to try my best to give you ... get accustomed. So basically don't stress but if you do stress, don't

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  in a triple on the [annotation note="please don’t remind me of how ... and those Things He’s Not Allowed To Be Doing. I don’t think he’s happy ... ![/caption] Yes, there have been moments where I have ALMOST dropped Edward, don’t

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I ... MEng, a graduate student—has returned to me feeling out of place. I don't really know what I'm doing; or, at least, I don't feel like I'm making

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  seriously; don't try any of those at home :)"]safely[/annotation] in the ... organized an apple picking trip and of course I had to go. I don’t even love ... ’ve been trying to get my butt outside if I’m feeling down. Even if I don’t

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  for it. Get your physical MIT ID. You can get them at any kiosk. I don't ... laundry pile can grow into a monstrous one. That can be avoided.  Don’t be ... only happen once. Your time is precious, and if you don’t feel like going

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  classes and south of sixteen. You don’t need to find it. You don’t have to ... , maybe these people don’t just absorb content faster or get through psets ... worked.” I don’t know if that’s true — how does this compare against my 5

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  of your major/that don’t have problemsets due every week is a good way ... classes I need to take to graduate. If I don’t take one this semester, then ... ’t the worst thing– I don’t mean to imply that it is. There are plenty of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ; everything you need, and lots of things you don’t know how to use. The place ... stems from being a visual learner, such that names people tell me don’t ... ’re taught safety basics — don’t grab things that might be hot, etc — we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  cut you off. Bikes are parked everywhere. People don’t lock them to ... involve a lot of sitting. I don’t know how my body would react to using the ... home after a night out. I don’t love metro commutes, but I understand the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  don't want to think about the answer. Oo nga pala, kung na sa'yo pa ang ... times, and here i've went… zero times? dambuhala. i don't actually know ... 's not as if i don't understand tagalog—that i can still do fine. but it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  retrospect, i care a lot about being productive, although i don't think of it like that. it's more of a, if i don't write anything in a week then that's bad, if i don't program something for a while then that's bad. five

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  conversation a few times, but the more I think about IAP, the more I don’t like ... . WHYYYYYYYY. Ok salty rant is over. I don't totally hate IAP, it's just that ... turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  realization in this order. Tier 1: Maybe, I don’t know, let yourself cry? Maybe ... you read Tier 5 and got a little nervous, don’t worry: My hair looks ... long of it is that I don’t know if I can do what I want to do with my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  that’s not what I want. I don’t feel completely overwhelmed. People always talk about drinking from the firehose at MIT, but I don’t feel like ... cracks. Now it's Sunday, the weekend is over, and I don’t know when my next

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don't ... yogurt I don't have the measurements, unfortunately, as I just kind of ... #babyboybakerboy. What team are you? #TeamPeetaisUseless? Or #TeamPeetaisMyBabyShutUpDont

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  you have this uncertainty. you don’t know exactly how many points you ... what happens after that? i don’t know. i could be staying here for even ... summer. i told him that i’m fine. i’ll be fine, as long as i don’t think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  ? What if I make a mistake? I don’t know why I tried doing it anyway. But ... being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... bullets. It was pretty fun. I still don’t understand everything that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don't ... use some practice being a leader. i don't think i naturally tend towards ... don't have confidence in sabre fencing, you will probably lose right of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  look at the message and don't respond. In Spanish as in English, you ... . These are your glory days. You're going to want to remember them. Don't ... everywhere. It sucks when you don't know those people's names. Don't beat

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  have no idea what I am doing. I don't know if I want to be a [annotation ... !"]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I don't know which schools to apply to in the ... of the summer, but I don't think I have [annotation note="the premise

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019