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• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  have a new roommate (hi Uzay), new room, new living group. I hang up all ... pika’s dining room"]CGE[/annotation] to strike up conversations with my ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  tomorrow lmao"]finishing up[/annotation] my PhD application for the chance to ... is for undergrad admissions, applications are divvied up amongst the ... industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... it. Everyone go read her blog to show appreciation for the good work she did that I am copying) Past Blogger Wrapped, for the nerds that may

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  —i can no longer remember which—my problem set for 18.701 (algebra I) was due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1600"] (click for better visibility)[/caption] The initial idea I got the inspiration for this from one of my favorite ... mascots that I could use to check my searches), I looked up their mascots

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these. And thank you to Ken for linking it again and contributing to it! "When ... dangle a string for their cat to play with, Thorndike flexed his cats

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  March; I feel like classes started really ramping up, everything started ... . With the end of the semester coming up, I've been reflecting a lot about ... coherent thoughts, yet. But in this moment, I feel a lot of resentment for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  on it. In April, we all dress up fancy for Ring Delivery and poses with our shiny new rings. The ring buying period has just concluded for the ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , one of which is over five thousand words long. I made write-ups for the ... IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

   breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a second. and we, the bloggers, will be ... the way in advance. I googled for various rejection letters so that I ... , I encourage you to stand up, shut off your communication devices, make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  , when I blew up the air mattress, that I don’t actually have space for 2 prefrosh, so I had to come up with some clever options for “prefrosh tetris ... everyone is so happy to live also. Next up was soundcheck for the CPW

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  'd take up an entire blog post just for that, so maybe another time. <3 I ... IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  - beating myself up for not enjoying something I ‘should’ be enjoying. I ... coming up with stories, making worlds that I wish I could live in, or bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... grills were fired up and ready to hand hundreds of prefrosh and MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... sciencey things and learning cooler sciencey things and getting paid for it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  reality when I inevitably run into the door frame. I wake up in the morning ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... doodling kind of stopped last semester, so I decided to dig up some notes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  ceremony came up, the green team won a giant foam trophy for finishing first ... 'm in it. And as the Systems Integrator for my team section (Pink A ... week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your burdens are lifted: IAP, and summer. That's why for this summer, I decided ... being responsible for doing Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and ... Director for their performance of Jekyll and Hyde. One day, at an MTG party

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011