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• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes ... square, devouring and moving forward and moving back. I quietly trace the ... gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I have the best girlfriend ever Gifts at MIT rock.

  

  I bought a new mouse on woot.com the other day for $13.37 and I must ... inquired "Where's your mousepad?" "Well . . I don't have one. . . but look, it still works!" A week later, after I had totally forgotten about

  • by Snively '11
  • December 3, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  Back in September, I wrote my first blog. I called it Things I Know to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but I also wanted it to act as an anchor. I told myself that

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  friday before the last one, i received some bad news. one of my close ... has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... ’s probably not a lot, and i’ve had friends who’ve gone through more. but i like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This past weekend, I rushed my mom and sister to come visit me at MIT because I was feeling particularly stressed out and at a loss for how to deal

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  This school year was pretty terrible.  I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better.  I took classes that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  I promised I'd never pull an all nighter....my thesis is due tomorrow. We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  I failed an [annotation note="probability and random variables"]18.600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to wait for scores to come back to know I failed. I definitely failed

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... something I looked forward to every week and I seemed to be teeming with ideas ... where I remain silent adds another weight of guilt onto my back and I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly ... , mourning that minute of sleep that I’ll never get back. I reward myself with

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  wow. I'm Joe, and I don't really know where to start this post. I guess I'm a blogger now. Also apparently I'm a real life MIT student now too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  I haven't been able to focus at all today. I didn't really understand ... When I describe Sichuan to people I always mention the food, and the mountains, the humidity sometimes, and I always explain that Sichuan

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go on thursday, too. Yeah, life isn't so bad. Turns out I'm not nearly as

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  I don't want to make this blog too political--I will not use Turkey vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker, that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went downstairs and took a walk, and the sun was setting. so i tried to find as high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  relevant to my story. Saturday night, I was going to Rax '04's house because I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad student at Caltech) was in town and going to be there. I like Anna, and with

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT full-time during fall 2020, since I knew I wouldn't get that much out of Zoom University. Instead, I chose to work. Unfortunately, nobody was

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  [annotation note="*Checks watch* wow I was a sophomore last time I ... make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  10. I won't have to think about the Crystal Field Theory... ...Which ... all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way. How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009