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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  , and I shouldn't put down my past self for not knowing what I know now. I ... while. I think for the most part, my freshman year was spent dismantling the mindsets that I held for granted back in high school. I stopped

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  Hi everybody! I was busy this [annotation note="IAP, for y ... , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... accidentally connected the tungsten stick to the welding arc (for context, this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  strong. By June, I had written first drafts of my essays for MIT and ... drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... apps. I am immensely proud of you all for everything you are handling

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  . this is disconcerting for numerous reasons. firstly, i feel like i don ... community before our dorm went offline for renovations. naturally, the ... ="aka exec member"]floor chair,[/annotation] i'm responsible for helping guide

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  service where you can check out bikes for a set period of time. there are stations all over the Boston area, so you can bike for essentially wherever ... you into the observation room, [annotation note="for the first shot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2025 are now ... your applications, the support staff who made it possible for them to do ... like that too: we are grateful for everyone who helped us get there.  Of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing—little, dedicated spaces for my sentences and paragraphs that don’t make the final cut ... darlings for nothing! sometimes the work you do, whether it's writing, music

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking ... exactly what I love to do. In my very first post, I set sidequests for ... that I'll have in between now and starting my [annotation note="for now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We ... their neighborhoods and surroundings for data analysts all over the world ... with the circumstances you are in and create for yourself. My social

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most ... bad to just slow down for a while, to focus more on taking in the world ... write something, for myself, while staring out my window. I’ve already

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... 1st place for an individual game, he was removed from the overall

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  anxious. For a little bit now, I’ve been taking stock of my anxiety levels ... an essay, I guess. Anxiety: You get picks for lots of things you aren ... that important stuff for such a great non-profit? Are you spending enough

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... beach, we stopped by a Stop & Shop for some burger buns, patties, and ... hunting ground for sharks. but they're not common in June, apparently. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my ... to a close for all you high school students out there. Maybe summer ... reaching out to friends was hard for me, that I’m inclined to fall back into

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... for granted once I left MIT, so it's wonderful to be back in this kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for ... a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed out about applying to grad school. [annotation note="please"]Vote for ... for people to feast upon my feelings" posts unless someone actually

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  was coming to boston tomorrow for the long weekend. i felt truly ... . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... to london this weekend! [annotation note="part 1 of 2 for traveling

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  those "get your child ready for college!" lists; when I read those lists ... ! Well, except for..." Except for the cooking. Cue shrug from me. At just ... submitting our dorm ranking choices, agonizing over the wait for results, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019