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• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

      Winter is coming. Oh, and so are finals. It's my ... Monday, so time is money, which leads to... create a study plan I start off ... example, for 7.012, we're given a list of topics to review, which is a handy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... money is just game mechanics–[annotation note="there’s definitely a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  (and is) a rare and under-researched sleep disorder. And yes, a chronic incurable diagnosis is terrifying to discover. But what a relief to know that ... . [caption id="attachment_109161" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Love is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  may be a difficult time for you, as that is the spirit of these blogs

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  "]thanksgiving was a few days ago, and in the world of this post it is still ... hoarder.  anyway— the point is mostly that i have a lot of random shit that ... them away. last year we put them on the wall, but this year our suite is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  kind that is often read by a half dozen people within MIT. It's sort of ... occasional distance spellcasting.[/annotation] Anyway, here is today's Golden ... full need, our admissions is need-blind, and we don't have an admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  Cross-posted from my blog, which is where I write these days. One If ... -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... , a value is contentless. No, the value of a value lies in its trade

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I ... 've moved as fast as 35 mph. Usain Bolt's top speed is a little over 27 mph ... , there is the Freedom Trail, which I've wanted to wlak since frehsman year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  the best parts about a sitcom is that you can tune in at any moment. So ... -Halloweekend indulgence.    “Is that my 5.111 TA?”    “No way- he’s dressed ... .    A facetime notification.    “Is that y’all screaming

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Beaverheimer (Pi Day 2024) 3/14/24 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  what Pi Day brings, so our best advice is to savor the little moments and

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  start of another day. Winter in Wyoming is its own beast, a stark contrast ... . Winter in Boston is more like short punctuated treks into the cold from my ... . It is no longer about survival, it is more about experiencing the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  aside for fluffy / aesthetic stuff like poetry, even if STEM stuff is ... problem, a project, or something else, I think the difference is that there ... about poetry is that when I start writing I don't have any idea of what

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  paint with five other girls in my sorority. Further down the bridge is a ... , a paint pallet is shoved into my hand and we are painting away. Faded numbers are redrawn purple and yellow, and the word ‘Smoot’ is repainted a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over-thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  tell you all about it. Bevi is a “smart” water “dispenser” company ... is usually that the other water dispenser on my floor in the office is ... that Bevi is more than just a glorified kitchen faucet to me now. … all

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the ... wasabi. we're all international students, which is part of the reason we ... writing energy is going into this larp i'm writing, for the assassins guild

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

   Gary Wang’s newly-created Wikipedia page. Gary Wang, for the uninitiated, is ... -profile individual’s Wikipedia page is one of the easiest, high-impact avenues of ... of kinship: yes, Wang is the most common surname in the world, but it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  questions, but the conversation is good anyway. towards the end of the chat, K ... you feel ANNOYED because one of the arrangements is being changed mid ... what to do when nobody is doing it with you. you feel LONGING as you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  anymore. Sunk cost fallacy is a fallacy, after all. The first week of school ... person for three years. There is a difference between leaving something that is a net negative and leaving something because the grass might be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  weather patterns, until this fall. Maybe it’s because this is only the ... patterns, midterm season, is also upon us. But only one of my classes this ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022