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• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  adored my art teacher.  At a certain point, though, I started being coined ... reading. I taught younger students basic research concepts, volunteered at ... .  Recently, though, I think I've been struggling to identify myself at college

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

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  and liked at CPW, but also the people I hadn't met yet, whose pictures ... complex, worse, more joyful, harder. But at its core, I do think that it is ... arrived at MIT with the raw materials I needed to be an adult -- maturity

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ’ve taken so far at MIT because of how unintuitive the concepts are, and the ... measures, the most difficult exam I’ve taken so far at MIT… but all that is ... from the indenter were inconclusive. At this point, I was rather

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... [annotation note="in library and information science, which is not offered at ... /blogs/entry/queer-at-mit-but-not-on-the-blogs/">blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  my first year at MIT thinking that [annotation note ... . Just look at him – isn't he so cute? [carousel image1="83282" image2 ... the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  play the same games over and over, so I get through games at a slower ... overwhelming enough to require a guide. (Looking at you, The Prestige Tree.) My main gripe is how slow it is, especially at the beginning. It always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  at the Middle East, tasted a cider flight at the Artifact Cider Project ... people spinning at once) per week, and I've been able to make it to a lot ... and all their friends come over to eat and chat. At my house, it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  hall hours can be restrictive, and the food is… mediocre at best. An ... ="i swear that microwave ramen hits different at 2am ... the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  senior year of high school, saw that every blogger seemed to have at least ... building things more than I liked chemistry, and another year to feel at home ... . Three years ago I was eating cookies at a midnight gay cookie event on 41W

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random ... away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  Hello world! I’m Song, I’m currently a freshman here at MIT, and I ... /memory) and has 8 commands:  + adds 1 to the memory at the current position - subtracts 1 from the memory at the current position > moves the pointer 1

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the ... and present their research at conferences, like the American Geophysical ... people do research on campus, at REUs on other campuses, or at places like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  Nero. My internship was remote, so I often worked at Caffe Nero and did ... with mangos and oranges. To quote Eren '23, body pillows can be sold "at ... returned to Target to retrieve my beloved. Someone yelled “nice pillow!” at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  months at school, I was so star-struck by all the opportunities and cool societies that existed that I threw myself at absolutely everything that ... was going at life totally unscripted, without the controlled structure

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water ... other place I've been, but now the cold bites at my shoulderblades and ... placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  —here are a few of them, organized by class: 21M.401: Concert Choir At the ... we learned, practiced, and got feedback on throughout the semester. At ... . [annotation note='given my noted penchant for bursting out into song at anything

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  like adding pureed strawberries at the bottom for some extra sweetness ... golden brown and I could fit maybe 10 of the 40 pieces of tofu in a pan at ... living at MIT since it's so easy, healthy, filling, and storable. Quinoa is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  to my big technical, which recorded lectures we could watch at our ... classes, at varying times, has made me happy for its own specific reason. I ... lot better at Spanish, to the point that I think I can learn on my own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  happening (at least not in their originally intended form), and the work that ... show at the beginning of the semester and our response was “OMG YES!” We ... powerless! . . . Look at the fireworks... Abuela, are you alright? Light up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  is always calmer than the ones that follow. For now at least, I ... further combined with reflective time at the gym while I work out) has got ... more slowly than everyone else and stare at the sky -- this is its own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020