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• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  from rcg, who is a pretty cool guy and an awesome sport about the fact ... the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... . As for faculty, it really depends. The thing is, you can't just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  images. I love photos & photography since it feels like life is in many ... horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling ... eventually, got it done. So, here is a day in the life, from May 1st till

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... ! Goodbye "sticking-together rocks"; hello "magnets"! Anika '26 is here too ... . It turns out that snowboarding is completely different from skiing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  ; there is just something so magical and whimsical about being with you. I ... " because Emma is a doer. She is known to do what she puts her mind to. That ... . This makes perfect sense for Emma because not only is she a doer, she is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb ... is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  content warning: this post is about covid-19, and the stress and ... . as with any piece of writing, there is no obligation to read further if ... 's important to explicitly remind you that it's ok to not read this. covid is

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ) Thanksgiving saga! [annotation note="it is not"]It is Thursday, November 28th ... time[/annotation], so today’s blog post is like Maxwell’s equations: it ... Tuesday, November 26th. Our spirit is indomitable, and our ambition knows no

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity ... for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school ... choice."]old mistakes[/annotation]. I think my relationship with Marla is

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  It is Thursday, November 23rd. Or well, it is as I’m writing this ... Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... going to college in a city, and one of them is the proximity of food

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  ]: Hangers I like fashion, so at home my closet is filled pretty tightly with ... need something to bring with you into the shower. This one is nice—it has ... Course 1: Clip-On Reading Light This is my desk lamp, and since my desk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... back to the idea of me time to be alone that Gloria is talking about ... , and people doing stuff, is part of what makes MIT wonderful, but it

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  friends. That's not what this blog is about, though we will certainly write a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... . Shouldn't I want more? Logically, maybe, but all I feel is content. I'm more

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart ... workplace is no MIT. I didn't quite understand what they meant by this when I ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  that people didn't talk about. This is a post about health, and my ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every ... myself as unhealthy. Like, maybe 80% of what I eat is carbs. I only eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute; I blame it on being an only child and growing up in NYC. This is all ... something twists in the viewer's chest. The main character is at their lowest

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  , because my head is imposing this map that the territory does not follow ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts ... imperfect fragments of our nostalgia. Three. MIT is not a place. It's never

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  've missed above all, however, is Chick Fil A. There are no Chick Fil A's in Boston. The closest one is in a town called Dedham, MA. My craving for ... appreciate just how beautiful Massachusetts is, having only seen small bits and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  rather, there is some spark of passion within me that makes me excited to ... skills is maybe printing a haphazardly CADded moon on TinkerCAD in my junior year. My only experience with coding is AP Computer Science A, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  blog post, and here it is. This came out as an experiment to figure out ... Planning."]Course 11[/annotation]. The lunch itself is Cafe Luna catering ... my plate is nearly empty, but I had some broccoli, and probably some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019