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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  start blowing. While you’re blowing, push on the tip of the glass with ... your pumpkin. Et voilà – you’re done! Super simple, straightforward 24 ... ’re so efficient – I’d highly recommend doing so if you’re around the lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  and topics in STEM, it gets exhausting when you're getting [annotation ... badass than letting Vaudeville Villain fill your soundscape while you're getting to your next destination on the MBTA bus. Kellen has EXQUISITE taste

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  monologued. Look, Mike, I think you’re a great guy, but I just got out of a ... and children, but that’s for a different post …) “Once you’re a mother ... needs you place above your own,” she said. “Why rush into that? You’re so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  there at that hour. when you’re a kid and it’s nighttime you’re basically ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you’re ... “college is the best four years of your life” and i think that’s an extremely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  have your homework every week to be like, “write a poem! read about how babies understand numbers! comment on your classmate’s comic script about ... recognize that if you’re a high school senior reading this, you’re probably

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  ones. If you think about it, math is how you get your WALL-E's, your HAL-9000's, and your Terminators. I decided to knock out all three 6-4 math ... : If you and your friends have similar psetting styles, psetting together

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you ... when to take your vacation or start a new job. I may never again feel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  do something big, new, and risky every year in your personal and ... reflective than predictive, that when someone declares your time will pass ... ’t you switching trains? how can you just accept that the pieces of your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  your exact course schedule for the next four years or how to prepare for ... more generally feeling like everyone has it all figured out and you're ... about college — how to live on your own, all the minutiae about academics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  thing to drink if you’re going to drink lab liquids, but I ... feel dizzy as the fluid in your ears becomes heavier; if you drink only ... , so I would recommend that you not anger your own cells by drinking this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or ... leaning against the shower so as you're cleansing yourself there's this ... shattering all over your vulnerable, naked skin. So me, being the dramatic

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it's about depression. ac newman's lyrics hit deep, with lines like "so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you wanna go, said the inhibitor blocking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  just throw in all of your loose leaves into a folder right? That ... . Now, I know what you're thinking. How can the folder possibly hold a ... ashamed. Two, if you're really determined to overwork something, at least by

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  decision: "We have completed our Early Action review of your application and ... someone or something." The point of this is to say that it is hard. Your ... Your Story", "it's only a matter of time," a matter of waiting for that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  you're waiting for the show to start. I'm too busy reading applications

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  positive trait. It’s about overstating your goals, setting your expectations ... questioning your instincts and recognizing that ultimately there are only 24 ... about picking your battles carefully, and I’m not sure that I’m so good at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  obliterates your old identity so it can be rebuilt anew, requires time and ... . Quitting your high school robotics team and leaving behind all the little ... okay. It doesn’t matter if you have the flu, or you’re on a personal

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  from Downtown Crossing, which is on the [annotation note="if you're not ... on boat etiquette—why is it that people will wave at you if you're on a boat?? No one waves at you if you're on land...regardless of where

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020