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• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  dear past me,  I moved in last year on August 17th, a couple days ... , where a lot of big Orientation and other events happen ... , first years have the option to stay in their dorm or move to a different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  's honestly been a soulsucking semester so far, I went full-on retail therapy at ... been ... a lot. As a cherry on top, I tested positive for covid this week ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!!! Feel free to drop a note yelling in the comments below, but also, and more importantly, to go celebrate and be happy with your loved ones.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  The Problem: A reviewer went "You guys did things while assuming that ... : these physicists have modeled some perfectly smooth aquaporins in a vacuum ... it with the equations in this paper but this sounds like a lot more

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  It's been a little while since I've blogged, which is partially ... wrote an embarrassingly melancholy blog about a book. Then, I wrote about ... app, which I use religiously. For the most part, I open the app, open a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny ... thrive, wherever you go; whatever you do. As a wise blogger once wrote ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  Zealand, where I held a full-time job.  Most salaried jobs will withhold ... . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to ... .[/caption] The government owed me thousands!  So my procrastination cost me a lot

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago ... of year again for my favorite seasonal meme: The holiday season is a time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  stare pensively out this window with strong College Student Vibes and a latte,”  and then I did a Lot of Math that weekend,  and took a picture ... a weird sense of nostalgia every time I walk past Flour on my way to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and ... onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my ... that we’re learning in class. Here, I took two midterms last week, and a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... peanut butter on them? That's a well-rounded, nutritious breakfast. See

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  in a choir. The Boston Conservatory is running a program for high ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I get to show up, sing with a lot of extremely talented people, learn some

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  no longer be a student blogger, and will have graduated to the nebulous ... up a post every day from today until Friday, totaling 7 days in honor ... the last 3.5 years, and perhaps a few forward facing posts as well

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... to anxiety, more jaded. I took these stories with a grain of salt since ... time to cook more than once a week anymore. On weekdays, I'm working

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... "]in-major classes,[/annotation] which was a big adjustment for me, and I moved entries ... different. Junior fall, I became a blogger, and had just changed my major, so

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  necessarily believing it, but just seeing if I relate. (I'm an Aquarius and a water snake, iirc.) I would definitely say I'm a superstitious person -- I ... 'm pretty into this stuff. While on a YouTube binge with Mariia, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Non-Stop a completely stacked google calendar? in THIS economy?

  

  lyrics to non-stop from hamilton in this post. nothing else just that"]A ... tutoring organization I'm a part of to discuss my lessons for a student. I ... more intensive and test-prep-oriented. 12 - 1 I had a meeting with my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being ... they unaware or do they just not care? All things considered, this is a ... 's been a long ten days since the video was posted, it encapsulates a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  feature calm task-based game Minecraft - got a project in the works :o ... Entertainment movies I made a Discord server to keep in touch with my friends. We ... &2 apps i've been using a lot Discord - literally would not be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020