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• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  I’m not hosed I’m no longer neck deep in school work, and I finally have a manageable workload, but I have spent the past few hours doing nothing in particular except think about all the things I need to do. They

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I… You get the point. So now, I am conducting an anthropological study on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  I noticed about MIT--that underlying, unshakable thumpthumpthump that echoed in my bones. As I looked around, I saw others marching along ... , filling them with a determination and vigor I've never quite seen before

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person when it come to what I want to do, so I was dead confident that nothing ... Science) and Course 9 (Brain + Cognitive Sciences) departments. I think

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Today I finally filed the tax returns I’d been putting off since March 2018. From September 2017 to August 2018, I lived in Auckland, New Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I ... I know now), they glow with a sense of MIT, and particularly East Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  Walking alone 'cause the night is dead. Crossed my mind when I ... lyrics by fun.']fun.,[/annotation] "Walking the Dog" Yet whenever I cross ... been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... , and I've left behind my past self but haven't yet entered a new one -- it's a pupal stage. This is probably the weirdest summer I've ever

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  It's an ordinary Thursday! I'm living at an apartment in Cambridge ... "]two jobs[/annotation] remotely. Here's what my day looked like. 8:57 AM I wake up three minutes before my alarm. I've been waking up before 9 every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you ... worth it. i lived in Burton-Conner, the fourth dorm down Dorm Row, so i never thought i needed to bike anywhere, but y'all, i was wrong. SO wrong

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming soon), but right now I’m coming to you LIVE from from Tetazoo’s freshman ... Campus that I spend a lot of time on. As a honorary frosh there, I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an Information Session about MIT. Afterwards, I was visiting some teachers when I ... in every math class I took. Although my high school was incredibly

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  one year ago i was living in an apartment in seattle while on leave from mit. the apartment looked like this:   this past semester i was an mit student again. i took four and a half classes and worked a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  -changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I ... this post. Also because I totally just didn't post last week: if anyone has any YouTube-vlogger-punishment-esque suggestions, I'll see what I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Roller Coasters and Dance Parties Sunday was the East Side party! Lots of loud music and prefrosh!! Still, no fun.

  

  super safe and awesome. Here are some videos and pictures that I took from the party, enjoy! I even got to go on a ride! I also did a lot of hair dyeing over the past few days, here are some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 25, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  In my last days at MIT, I painted this mural on my hall. I'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a student, I did not want to be a doctor when I grew up.) As a result, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014