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• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a ... realized that most real-life houses were a lot more boring :("]quickly faded ... adored my art teacher.  At a certain point, though, I started being coined

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... beside me a student from another college has a massive book open beside her ... minutes, a shadow crosses the window, cast by a pedestrian or two walking by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a cappella concert, is an annual event where all the mit a cappella groups

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are ... the event of a crash. Most databases use a steal/no-force design, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... figure that out. That class requires a different mode of thinking that I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  everything my class has missed out on. A lot of things still aren't the same as ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... April, but in reality, last spring was just a very poor approximation of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  many, many, many more. My life as a college student has pretty much been a series of applications, and today I feel that going through so many ... collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... work behind a glossy desk, property of a company that paid more than I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  I've mentioned briefly on this blog before that I'm part of a ... that; it's very difficult to learn new music over Zoom and there were a ... idea of writing a blog about what all the different performance groups on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  ; What a headache Where does the time go?! We're somehow halfway through ... next. Through out all this switching around, I also started a new UROP ... 've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  There's a lot that happens after 5PM. 1 // Sunday [caption id ... I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday ... (Boston's subway system) but I was carrying a lot of luggage full of winter

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long and tiring week) to watch a Bollywood film. All I was really looking for was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  that the doors might not stop. Suddenly a very heavy, unpleasant pressure jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place ... the top presses down like seram wrap blades for a clean rip at whatever

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... at a close. But it happened. And Ring Delivery was this past friday ... gather in a big fancy place, eat fancy food, dance, and take a bunch of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah, probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... backpack that consisted of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!“ (I’m doing a personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  family got 2 new Maltese puppers!); at a ski resort in Salt Lake City for a ... , Detroit for a competition, Chicago to visit my cousin at residency, and NYC just for fun (more on all that in a future post) -- I was back on campus

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017