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• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  ) I really love doing scientific research, 2) life is long, and getting ... it is perhaps the fact that I wouldn't mind staying in academia forever ... i. before MIT The truth is, my scientific "career" started a while

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  writing was more than a hobby, it is a passion equivalent to my love for ... for incoming freshman that love literature or visual arts is "How do I ... Quimby is beyond me. Stories were mine to have and hold, for better, for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I've started this post at ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... . The reason I keep coming back to this blog post, however, is that even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  'd wake up at 5:30am to get ready for my 6am-2pm work day (Hawai'i is three ... , were dedicated to fun, house-bonding events. Eva is not part of ... my ankle while hiking and fractured it. It is not the greatest. But I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it ... stuff and got distracted so now this is when it's out... let's just

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  sucked into the Friends zone. I love the show. Don't know what Friends is ... whatever word you want. In a bout of curiosity-fueled insanity that is not ... them through such a rigid standard. My purpose is this: What do certain

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  the discussion is on media that I don’t personally consume (ex. family ... now enjoy this Blahaj blog :).  Blahaj, Swedish for “blue shark,” is ... is lined with white triangles of felt teeth. Blahaj’s brown eyes are

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go ... this is the least healthy segment of my food consumption > ... 've gotten bored of them and so the second box remains unopened :( This is only

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... or synthesis, basically everything featured on this blog. which is also ... students. these days, I think that online advice is often useful as a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  piece is just a series of things loosely held together by a vague relation ... don’t have anything coherent to say on the topic as a whole. This is a ... , but my general impression is that growing up is just the process of

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  story is entirely apocryphal, alas"]mazes.[/annotation] They would find ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... Overview of Past Semesters (there is a tl;dr below) Freshman fall: 8

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... talk about the air pistol itself. The aim is to learn to shoot precisely, and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  is going to hell. [caption id="attachment_51263" align ... us lmao"]quite a reputation.[/annotation] BC is known for its floors ... me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  there is...a lot about the school that a lot of people don't know about ... the fun things about going to college is having to relearn and adapt to ... .091 and 5.111, where the first number is what course the class falls under

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... graduate. Turns out varsity fencing is THE BEST and I never want to leave so ... 60 free t-shirts – ~50% complete. This is a wild and probably incorrect

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  reusable set of utensils everywhere. The concept of layers is foreign to me ... , but a bidet shower, which is like a hand-controlled shower head that ... is just weird to me. Also, flushing toilet paper is also weird—back at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking ... whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my ... I am. All of that stuff is mostly true. I do like music! I bake every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  frustration in a compassionate, fatherly way. It can be the feeling that one is ... one into another’s home and says, stay. be. It is when someone holds my shoulder in the way that says, I believe in you — unconditionally. It is when

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for ... . And then there's the expense of it all. Nothing in the sport is cheap. Each trip to the rink not only is a 25 min commute, but add in the cost

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  vicious cycle. The telethon is a fun tradition that I think brings a really ... , then, that he is insanely clever and hardworking, like, oh, I don't know ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012