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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  guess I had forgotten that this is what life is normally like. Take, for ... morning for [annotation note="Probability and Random Variables"]18.600,[/annotation] and one due at 5 pm for [annotation note="Relativity"]8

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

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  dorm. Good thing, that, because we can't leave the dorms, save for one ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... I set my alarm for seven am yesterday and stumbled up to snooze it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... doing those things for fun on my own time. I've always felt like I ... world. I struggled and flailed and had no idea what I was doing for most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  of these stories just… end, i guess, which sucks. so i speak for myself, and i only do want to speak for myself, when i say that my ... food, sitting in front of my laptop for the whole day, getting food

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  bass and have essentially set the others aside for now. the day before ... it gets for basslines and for joe dart. now i'm trying to learn beastly, and wait for the moment, also by vulfpeck, and some songs by the marías

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  cook. Instead, I've been mooching off of Raymond and Aiden for their ... 'm ridiculously close to NR'ing it. For the past semester and a half, I've been ... class designated for students who have taken some version of 8.01 in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  proceed to say that 14 is Economics for all the [annotation note="cj: course ... ; 18.022 = Multivariable Calculus, a GIR. (One of the professors for 14 ... also your adviser for the first year. 21m.a16 is beyond independent

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  "Afeefah, do you still write for the blogs?" I've gotten this ... max capacity for seven hours straight. Change study locations often ... 's good for your productivity. Eat your meals in the dining hall. A day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... something you do simply for the pleasure of it. (100 words or fewer) I wrote ... roasted for trying to turn this essay into another opportunity to humblebrag

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... for the rest of your life. Here is a small piece of advice I want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  were released. For instance, because audiences were not yet exposed to ... for a classy dinner (scallops and salmon and steak, oh my!) and more ... . For some reason, I’ve always found movie scores so captivating - one of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  own Canadian format, called Reach for the Top, so I didn't (and still ... super excited to start practice for real this year. Once or twice a week ... meeting and find some truly awesome people; that holds true for quizbowl

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  . Editor's notes were added in the spring of senior year. For reference, here ... from my college experience? For example, I had zero doubts about being a ... be a great resource for quelling such fears!]  Now, Biology isn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  remembered for her big heart, bright mind, and beautiful smile. According to ... was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... influenza. 1. Shock For the duration of the phone call, I don’t remember much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  monument has been on my bucket list for a while. It’s 294 stairs to the top ... decided to take Hubways back into downtown. For those of you who don’t know ... a code from the app. After biking around for half an hour, you return

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words ... remotely have feelings for. So I ended up dating a boy (we’ll call him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  should read more poetry for class. - Where did I leave my bike? In senior ... -wise, that's really great and I hope things stay that way for you. :) With the ... and on. Poi has become a sort of meditation for me, where I can just let

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... invented the Torino Scale, a method for categorizing the danger levels of ... (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy), a high-altitude NASA plane that

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015