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• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  only been half an hour. "Think like an old person?" I asked. "What do ... month. On Thursday I got around to doing an experiment I've always wanted ... do it now. I blocked the whole day out of my calendar and spent the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... doing linguistics, so maybe I'll feel guilty enough to take actual ... piece despite being published in 1948. “They do say,” Mr. Adams said to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  doesn't make sense to me since pushing "newbies" to do more is what helps ... could be doing more, and that I was making the wrong decision by half ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  that seems to scream "I don't know what I'm doing." But really that has ... little and doing the same for them."]big,[/annotation] ehua, and meeting ... of these specific people who do not and would not know me. It was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  revisions for my writing class to do Wednesday, and on Thursday I had to ... could fly through this class doing 15% of the required work. I do the ... 't pile up. Even so, I keep thinking that I can do this now, sure. I'm a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  tablet[/caption] I kept doing this throughout high school, when I’d post ... note-taking and doing work, but when MIT offered the option, I thought to ... godsend. Now, I’m going to do my best to not sound like I’m being paid by

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  group? What's your budget per person? How many rooms do you need? Aka do people want singles/doubles etc? What locations are you looking in ... 're intended for Harvard Grad School students. Do you want a house or an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  changed...now, i'd do anything to be able to dance at a frat. i don't know ... students ever again, but god, do i crave it; the sheer liberation of dancing ... , do i miss having the freedom to fuck up my sleep schedule in lieu of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  't had time to blog, and what I've been doing instead. The main reason ... semester, despite the challenges of doing group projects over Zoom. I ... passed (or failed) an ASE, how did you prepare? What advice do you have? If

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  , occupied with something to do. it feels froshy, sure, that’s the right word ... there’s a caller who gives instructions for everyone to do. at the plus ... ’m clueless about what i want to do with my life. i feel as if i’m wandering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  story. What are you filming? Where are you filming? Do you need a crew and ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I ... background noise. 11. Start filming! Always do [annotation note="I did three

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... all motivation to really do anything. Thursday rolled around and we ... tired to do so. I slept around 2. I woke up on Friday at 7:45, hurriedly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  past that I do not stand by. However, I do give him props for constantly ... do the same and reevaluate their morals and values. When I first heard ... we do 3D-print, while sometimes they are perhaps little trinkets to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  . Second semester, D's and F's do not show up on your transcript, but A's, B's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... not particularly like writing code, that I do not and will not drop

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  say. i do agree with them that leadership is something that can be ... that's not all!!11! i do in fact still have extracurriculars to squeeze ... i really love the work that i'm doing - game design for a game that i

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  end of semester surveys), students spend 20 hours on 031. So, doing the ... anticipation (namely, “aaaaa-do-we-really-want-to-throw-away-one-of-our-precious ... -feel-like-we’d-rather-be-doing-more-artsy-things”) was a big reason we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’ll help me figure out what I want to do with my life. If I get through the ... status early), which basically means that if I do bad in the class, it won ... a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have ... ?? This is what 3 years of MIT will do to you...) 2.74: Bio ... type of work I want to do in the future (robotics!). ***** While I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  that I do not regret, for one second, taking 6.005: Elements of Software ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... caution to everyone heading into college, or currently there: don’t do it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017