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• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.   ... tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for ... significantly above-average point, you're so screwed. You’re meat. For whatever

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  . When I got into MIT, visited for CPW, and finally comMITted, the biggest ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for ... waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  for my sleep schedule and for my homework schedule, but I cope by ... spent the majority of my time at ZBT for obvious reasons, so it's been so ... image1="89300" image2="89298" image3="89296" /] Spring Break For spring

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  different media forms for my assignments! Here's everything I've consumed this ... . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What ... some extra raps for inspiration, particularly looking at female rappers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... magic or not. for instance, at one point the characters discuss how oral ... episode that hit hardest for me was this one: “Most people spend their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  VSVDbZUakc After realizing I've done a team update for the [annotation ... a good thing…I guess? Hmm, on second thought, and for legal reasons ... could create a video for the incoming class. I remembered him from WISE

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  I've been gone from the blogs for a little while, since this semester ... , on making paradise for CPW; or spring break adventures; or the way that ... no space to breathe—no space to post. And yes, there has been time for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and the possibility for life beyond Earth. [caption id ... .[/caption] There are four tracks for the major: Geosciences: Geology, Geochemistry ... with slightly lower expectations for the undergrads taking the class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  funds for it. It was also super refreshing to be in these games classes ... rejected by Google and I even cried about it for a couple of hours. It hurt ... personality for a longtime. There wasn't anything I could really talk about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请

  

  been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... Chinese characters, for readers who prefer those. Rona W. '22 also did reads ... everyone above —  especially Catherine and Alice —  for these translations! I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our ... i spent approximately zero months feeling grateful for the time i did

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the ... actually happened in my life since September. I also feel a little bad for ... one. I could write a lot about what this meant for me, and maybe I will

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  posting quite often, for a bit – enjoy!"]recently started posting again ... ="Thank you Petey and the rest of the blogfam for keeping me included throughout ... just made me completely incapable of making a single post for so long. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  This is, for the most part, a post about Seattle. I've been a resident of Green Lake, Seattle for a little over a month now. There's very ... slightest. But after interviewing for various product management internships

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  moment for many of the students who have been looking forward to visiting ... principle for our process is that "we want young people to be students and ... the foundation for our longstanding general policy for disasters and

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  Netflix for eight hours and it's completely acceptable because, hey, at ... to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of ... ?? feels like i’ve been here for an eternity"]two-ish months

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and ... MIT, I take pride in my own high capacity and drive for work. Being able ... has problems with the drudgery of work, but burnout, for me, is when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memory of a Greatly Beloved Establishment rip the stud subway

  

  longer an option for Lobdell Food Court customers. Some of you might be ... rocky, but I could always rely on it to be there for me. After long hours ... and cheese bread, and didn't accept card half the time, but for a sweet

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 3, 2019