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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... , things mastered weeks ago. To me, they seemed to be everything. And so of ... one end of the pool to the other, by now for the others without fins

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  your inbox. please come and visit. oh, and by the way, i hope to see all ... Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  get to build and solidify connections that will last way past graduation ... non-vampire schedule. Don’t be like us. It is only ok to be nocturnal ... point. But really, do it because it’s the best way to learn about your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  wasn’t a joke. Even now I’m not quite used to it: I’ll be walking by ... every facet of what I had previously assumed to be an irreconcilably ... certainly couldn't allow myself to get my hopes up, or my poor psyche would be

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  “there are so many ways to be a spider”.[annotation note="adam told me ... . expected value calculations, in theory, seem to be a good way to live life. i ... years. i was lucky to be surrounded by many people who didn’t have toxic

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  -harm. I’ve been trying, for months, to find a way to write about what it was ... struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... to fourteen hours a day to be functional while awake. I came to MIT

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  knows what's absolutely necessary to be brought from home and what can be ... extra-long. And as far as comforters go, try to get something that'll be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  this is by dressing up! My living community, 3E in Next House, decided to ... get to Kresge by 7:00 p.m., the time the doors opened, but there was ... uproar seemed to increase by 10 decibels. They came up, two at a time, to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  research. By definition, I should expect myself to be the median researcher ... worried than you need to be. You will be OK either way. There is no bad ... the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note ... youtube."]#vanlife[/annotation] videos, and I wanted to be out of Tucson but ... what I want to be. After eating less-than-wholesome -- I think the worst

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  the springs: you’re gonna be starving. Good thing Austin knows how to ... and are about to finish [annotation note="SPOILERS: Here are some quick ... myself, to backtrack, to solve problems, and to continue on my way. I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  be like, and realize quickly that a lot of things they set out to do ... , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... growing (it's okay to fail) My sophomore fall was by far my most difficult

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be ... wouldn't they accept me? It's meant to be. They must have gotten something

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  -frosh actually believe that it’s going to be as fun and happy as that weekend, but ... weekend to be over. Back in 2011, my host’s neighbor was an aerospace ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... intend to see it through, no matter how ridiculous the titles end up being ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  someone who is looking to join and be a new member of a sorority. I ... preparation and decoration that needed to be done to make sure the PNMs felt ... bonding experience with my chapter, and it was super cool to be able to meet

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . Sometimes, we will be too far to grab the hands of those who were bashed by ... -quality tweet that I decided to collect more ways to complete “Getting an ... might also be funny to ask Robo-CJ, or GPT-2 fine-tuned on my writing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  , and set mini-targets of what needs to be done by when. 4) Again, start ... four years here, which I hope would be of use to incoming freshmen ... the MIT population, so be warned. --- To all incoming MIT freshmen

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  past,[/annotation] email is an unreasonably effective way to contact ... interviewed to be the GRT on the floor after I had left and asked if I lived on ... "floor pie" being three and a confluence of nerds, was likely what led to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  Bronx’s elevated subways to watch the buildings rush by me, but being too ... ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... these many bridges, and decided that the best way to show that is through

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020