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• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand ... sick hanging out with a sick friend and be unable to do that work. But on ... work effectively on problemsets. My brain and body were dead. On Monday

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  clear line of logic, y'know? But on the other hand, my feelings towards ... Elementary discrete mathematics for science and engineering, with a focus on ... productive in OHs for some reason. 18.06 - Linear Algebra Basic subject on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills ... understand what goes on in wet labs and mechanical engineering eventually i ... -to-three-person conversations and tend to zone out in significantly larger groups. but on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , blinking away the wisps of my dreams as i touch down on earth. “what did you do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of ... everywhere and lashing out to try and blame it all on something, anything — but

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  actually come up with the most accurate answer on the spot. there’s probably ... on twitter because they tweeted saying they were looking to meet 100 ... generally of an abstract nature, and you can get pretty far on math just by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... wrong   1:53 pm:  I find a friendly local math major on my floor ... second friendly local math major on our floor to check out my math  he

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere ... those snow boots and sport your MIT pride with TECHNOLOGY spelled out on ... nerd side while playing your favorite song than to headbang with this on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  to document my journey and I’m glad I could take you on this trip with ... on this weird mesh of humanities and engineering and I've never been happier. While I'm not psetting in front of the Stud or lounging on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  hollowed with knives?” - Kahlil Gibran. On Sorrow and Joy. I loved that chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future ... now, but time moved on and muscle memory just carried me along the way

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  passed on anymore. it makes me think about how fragile oral history is ... really liked construction when i was a prefrosh, and now i'm on the other ... slay the spire on the highest difficulty level, ascension 20, on three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  bit. I'm hoping luck will be on my side and I'll be able to pursue the ... 've tried writing a blog about this topic on three separate occasions, but ... for 5 hours, whether that be on Zoom or in person, being thrown around

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  myself at programming memes on codehub. My room is dimly lit with my ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... on my bs and set the bar high for what I should aspire to be- the ones

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  enough time. Many questions came into my head as I toiled on how to crack ... student, I wanted to show my perspective on the fluidity of interests and ... me to avoid some zones tho...[/annotation] Indecisive as ever on how

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking ... , it helped me discover and focus on the things that make me feel like a ... -effort interaction—we just laid on our backs, stared at the ceiling, and focused on the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... questions, based on nuggets gleaned from meetings with MIT administrators, the ... on the first-most-exciting email of the fall semester. watch this space

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  lately, often bordering on nightmares. i'd wake up and i'd feel tense ... pattern. for the past five nights i have constantly felt on the verge of ... in the evening, and it'd just come upon me, like hands pressing down on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  fixed idea of where I was applying, what on earth I was doing, or anything ... with some friends. I walk outside on the campus, with a cool breeze. It ... of typing on my computer till my wrists hurt, as I am doing right now

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  community's first event on a whim, I wouldn't have joined the floor and met ... ordered [annotation note="a great place for frozen yogurt or calzones on ... , considering how much I cook/how stupid I am sometimes. I built a snowman on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020