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• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  remember the last time you felt like you could do this. You dropped a class ... anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... you at MIT?"). But, I do feel that the HASS department is MIT's hidden ... were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  . What are you doing in 21E? Like Danny and Allan, I am a 21E major with ... did you choose to do 21E? I spent a lot of my time going back and forth ... minor in CMS, or double major in CS and CMS, or do a major in CS with only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  with items from my to do list is not a very healthy mindset and that i ... things i've done this semester, which is a thing that i do when i think my ... have to do a lot of classwork, i always feel really sad because i could

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  freshman with a credit cap) but you do all the work of your 12 unit ... 'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This ... to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  . Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright and novelist whose play Topdog ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will NEVER have a pleasantly warm spring break? Hmm...well, there are a few

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  size of a printer, except that unlike my printer at home, they do what ... Hello everyone! I thought up this title as a metaphor for how the week a few weeks ago hit me, but apparently said week hit too hard for me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  want to do, so we commited to making something nice. We found a lumber ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  ’all. It made such an impact on me, I even set a scene there for my novel ... , [annotation note="It’s a first draft, so please forgive any awkward sentences. I ... of a coffee machine somewhere. Quirky knick-knacks dot the lime

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  summer means I get to do research! About a week ago, I officially confirmed ... Theory. It wasn't a bad class, all told. Circuits are pretty cool, and I ... ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  have anything to do with Thanksgiving? Well, okay, a few things you ... , hence our being known as Burton Jew. One suite even has a Kosher oven and such. I am not Jewish. I’m from the Midwest- I had a Jewish neighbor

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... attempting to fall asleep, having heard stories of people doing this at times ... a class (Harmony and Counterpoint I) and added another class (Harmony

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  /directors of the movie, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, were there to do a Q&A ... hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no every-day classes, no problem sets, no only a few last-minute, late nights ... /Course 2 reasoning behind how it worked, 2.) it can be used in a lot of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location: pika. Across the train tracks, just a few blocks into Cambridge, a big green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  For the last five years, I have started this post with a jaunty list ... prefrosh and Selam I have built a pandemic platform for lockdown ... be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgNBgyziNrA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  Now I get to mention something cool that I do with my life here! It ... a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me, that means one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  for it to do so. In a few days, the Class of 2012 will graduate from ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist ... eponymous book. Lewis first became famous writing Liar's Poker, a memoir of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  well, and who will do so frequently. If writing is a chore, so will ... warm! I spent last week on vacation on a lake with my family, where I practiced wakesurfing and (poorly) performed in a triathlon. 2) Sports! As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012