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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , you can hit snooze on. you can keep hitting snooze until you need to ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep ... nor flight but freeze. because on the good days, the meds work. the meds

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  Rat” emerged in 1929 to reflect the prominent beaver on the bezel of the ... on the path to receiving an MIT degree. The Class of 2022 (my original ... my sophomore year, before COVID-19 had left its mark on campus. It was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  compartmentalize my thoughts into two pieces. So this blog will focus on the positive ... with. With many changes on how to study, an extreme amount of luck ... shapes and sizes. Some really gave me hell when I was working on them. But

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  dying Peel a strawberry Bake a grape Surgery on a grape Cleanse your email ... Attack on Alison - alison"]Attack on Titan[/annotation] Do some data analysis on your screen time reports and then if it’s as tragically high as

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  here is almost the same as that of living on our floor of Burton ... working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last ... , and to go on long bike rides around Cambridge/Boston is absolutely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  With Parent's Weekend coming up, I thought I'd reflect a bit on the world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the ... cousins, sometimes my lolo and lola would go away on vacation and it would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  went on until i snapped, slammed my laptop shut, and went to bed ... to put nothing on my gcal. i spent most of it with casey, but also with ... jynnie told me -- i'm the third senior on our hall to drop OS this semester

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... ; back to 2014 for my post on how I read applications; Nisha's post in 2018 ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as ... will only show up on your [annotation note="the one that MIT keeps, not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  -to-be supervisor, Dr. Abel Sanchez, saw on my resume que yo hablo español, he asked ... ) while trying to maximize the happiness of the matches based on the ... of the girls working on this problem: Livin The Dream with Gale

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... are also keeping close watch on the overall situation and exploring the ... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * tech article on a student directly affected by the executive order

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  glow-in-the-dark murals on blacklit walls. People are spinning poi lit on ... great, depending on how much travel distance along Memorial Drive you ... , I'm sitting cross-legged on a floor of Maseeh with my FPOP friends

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM ... dome, a multi-part hack appeared on the morning of September 4, 2015 ... was used to fling older hacks back on the Great Dome. The hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  On Friday, May 22, I put on some waking-up music and started packing ... footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... Katharina Ribbeck on biomaterials, whose research is on mucus. (I studied ... science videos on farts and poops, but sneezes and snot are the truly awe

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  underneath Stata where the three-person crew stays while on shift, equipped ... , working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of ... you so far. Actually being on scene with a living, breathing person is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three-year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic chronicling about three hours on a Saturday evening A post, mostly words

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014