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• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  't used my time wisely at all. It feels like I've done nothing for this ... was much easier to do exceptional things and be recognized for it. Now ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome ... he'd write up a version of it as a guest post for the blogs. And he did ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... . If you are looking for a credible source, try using this link here. If you don't care for citation and just wanna know, I explain it below

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  nothing made sense, except for maybe the classes, and even then only because ... Thanksgiving break. I helped out with Thanksgiving at my dorm for the first time ... for everything—Musical Theatre Guild, lean0nme, Splash, Think, Quiz Bowl

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish ... started. the about-hundred of us gathered in Walker Memorial for some events ... the Harvard Bridge for the first time. we talked like we had known each

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  first stop was the Museu da Amazônia (MUSA for short), where we got to ... could see. However, we couldn’t stay up there for long – it was also ... ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of ... enjoyed that immensely since the needs for genre and literary writing are

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  *everything* else to make up for it, that this is my one chance to take a lot of ... applied for many classes which historically had low acceptance rates: a ... world felt right for the first time since covid ripped me away from Europe

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  floor of Barker, where I went when I needed to work for eight hours ... ‘ur mom’ jokes, painting an apt metaphor for the psyche of the average ... everybody in the room except for her"]she set alarms every other minute

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  ="alignnone" width="1536"] as i walk into the giant 10-250 lecture hall for 3.091, i ... ridiculous outfit possible. While I was looking through the racks for pants ... for the career fair. A couple days after that, we stayed up until late

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  , technically, is a tropical fruiting plant, even though it's mostly grown for foliage in the north, and not for its fruit.  Only the lemon tree has ... my care. I'm really not sure how to account for this developing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... without any inhibition for three days straight. i've been coping with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  to this. For example, did you know that [annotation note="btw i ... history” according to Wikipedia, was the voice actor for that pufferfish guy ... ? am i already growing old?"]Shark Tale?[/annotation] Did you ask for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes ... ’m sure it’s true for a not-insignificant percentage of the student ... decide to do something for pleasure for more than the two weeks that makes

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so ... one-folder-for-all-my-classes routine and horrible inbox in high school

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project ... grad student said, and see the professor is not there For the next two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... ASLEEP FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE SUN IS SHINING

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... for me during some really difficult times in high school. I really lost ... , again, watched another movie. This time it was Requiem for a Dream. I wish

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... that it isn't that easy for everyone, and even for me, it still kinda ... goes for tons and tons of kids they didn't admit, too.) I wanted to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for ... . Before the meeting, you register for classes online; then you [annotation ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019