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• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... about you).” It’s a question that loosely summarizes identity as two ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I recently downloaded a chess app on my phone. Now, I know people who ... older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... Chinese reading cards and there is a final video project presenting a ... on taking [annotation note="Introduction to Design Intensive"]4.02A

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  Swift, with which I have been annoying my family for almost a decade now.) I spent the summer doing a software internship in New York. I lived alone and spent a lot of time with myself, and as others have mentioned

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by CollegeHumor. The show has multiple seasons, with each season being a new D&D game with a usually familiar cast, with the occasional guest stars here

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might’ve appeared had she made a different decision somewhere in her life. In one

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got another one, and a monstera and a fiddle leaf fig and bamboo and some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  a haze of pset after pset, lecture after lecture, and a midterm always ... it to. Here's a muddled average of all the things I've been up to these ... winter. I had a lot of trouble figuring out which day to start on, because

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a ... , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the ... this thought, but at the same time, [annotation note="not a coronavirus

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school, so reviewing important concepts took a while, but the class is really ... because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you ... need to find a job or something productive to do over the summer. Senior

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... semester and briefly reflect after a hectic last few weeks between final ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... warm clothes. I’m wearing a ski jacket as I write this…no shame in being ... from 40-60 degrees on average, with rain on Thursday. If you just wear a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to be nonsense. Junior year: Ha! A few days before classes started, I made sure there wasn't a single thing on Stellar* that I didn't know about. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  although she has been a marvelous student in high school, she was really ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  This, potentially, is the longest I've gone without a blog entry ... have a Brass Rat. I've completed most of the "book" classes and am about ... the emotions that coincide with the MIT Gamut (a term I just made up

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  Over this past weekend, many prefroshies asked me a very interesting question - and I believe that this warrants a more drawn-out response from me ... too nerdy. I question whether I would even be able to find a balanced

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009