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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure ... you skip reading an article you can nap in the Banana Lounge for an hour ... for. Some were moving gently. It was bizarre, sort of otherworldly

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

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... : our boba bureaucrats liked it enough, so "Into the MITverse" it was. For ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... this? Is this some kind of karmatic punishment for something I did? So ... some god punishing me for being a bad person. Anyway, in these past 5

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  nice and all, but this is an idea that is hard for me not to be doubtful ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of ... for myself are too high. standards such as — i must be intelligent and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... experiences for the blogs, so I asked the blogger Slack for some questions for ... -South-Dakotan vitriol, which I, for one, will not stand for: [carousel image1

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and ... . I helped out at the tournament, and then left for my house's weekly 11 ... The Muppet Christmas Carol. I didn't vote for it, but I'm very glad it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  had some really, really awesome repertoire planned for last spring, and ... our rep was laid aside for months and months. Now it's the fall, and we ... MIT for this blog. There is undoubtedly much more happening than I can

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  thought this might give us some sense of closure for the end of the school ... for Thanksgiving Break. The one visible in this picture shows the three of us in space! 2) Tickets for the Vessel, Come from Away, and the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  a lot of Discords - for living groups, for clubs, and for all of MIT ... ,[/annotation] and gaming channels for doing [annotation note="i cannot describe how ... 'sex'[/caption] My UROP: A lot of the stuff I was supposed to do for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly ... school year. later, though, i choreographed to it for my dance show, so i ... met in Taiwan is in. i listened to it nonstop for three days in November

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 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 ... yourself and putting aside time for yourself is not just a necessary evil. It ... maximize a proxy value for a quantity when you could maximize the quantity

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

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to ... me explain why. Make a guess for how many people got their flu shots that day. The clinic was held for ten hours. How many? A thousand? Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and ... can’t study for. It’s an unpredictable, amazing, terrifying whirlwind

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  ) Freshman Arts Program trinkets: a puppet we made for our fiber arts group ... event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... semester! 11) The program from Measure for Measure! Danny couldn't make it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  seminars you can sign up for. The seminars last one semester, like a ... ! Each seminar counts for 6 units, so approximately one half of a typical ... , and that's chill. I opted for an advising seminar because I like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... ’d been part of for a long time, that I knew a lot about and that, by senior

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a ... . But for some reason, we LOVE it! Our fave songs are Your Day, Lilacs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know ... I have almost always wanted to work on. For those of you that have ... completely honest a big reason for that decline is in fact my time at MIT. Now

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  excited for the REX events we’re hosting for y’all this year. This year, our ... by for a burger (vegetarian options available) and some good ... up the courage to do it, the EC courtyard is the place for you! We have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... . __________________________________  Part 1: Freshman Fall I’ve only been here for a semester, but things have changed in life. For example, I realized how little I know and how uncertain

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018