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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  that's why i'm revisiting this. i like doing media check-ups every now ... sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book ... relate with him on some fucked up level. this would then repeat again when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• 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 ... implications people seemed to give them whenever they came up in the context of

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

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  -800” “For MIT and Brown, try to bump up your SAT to at least 2200.” “you ... applying, about which colleges would be a good fit for me, and about which ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  accidentally squashing or over-etherizing them, and almost threw up. I had to ... sample (don't remember what anymore) for a while, and got some tongs to ... clean it up. Good times. A few years later, crucible-flinging me had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  literally look up the last word in the dictionary, but decided that "zymurgy" was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that ... the class knew who Bob Langer was. Half the hands in the room shot up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  to bring up, so I talk about the internship I worked for the last few ... game. 6. You’re set up for success because you know yourself now better ... halfway through a botched sophomore fall to receive treatment for clinical

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... ” or “running for president”. I had read one of the MIT blogs once

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... the softest and calmest dusk I had ever seen. I watched it in awe for ... : 09/21/2022[/caption] I was dormant for over ten minutes, watching the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  picked up just through the process of reading papers for this class. 21A ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... construction of proofs. More demanding than 18.100A, for students with more

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... place that shovels snow for you. I’ve learned to love the ups and downs ... are wondering about this haven’t committed yet –– apologies for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... grateful for, even if I forgot it occasionally while in the frenzy of trying

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  pansies sprouting up from the earth and cherry blossoms sprinkling their ... inform you” (or perhaps the demoralizing “wait a few months for an actual ... particularly struggle-ridden afternoon with a class intended for students with a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  ://listart.mit.edu/public_art for virtual tours and more information on the individual pieces ... first impression I had). With the Percent for Art program instated in 1968, any new building project or renovation allots up to $250,000 to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk ... engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  my pants, and I have not studied enough. We have signed up for it; we ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this delay are unknown to me, but I did remember waking up once and being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it ... perfectly nonsensical goal that I could chip away at for months. I regretted ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of ... , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  indispensable!!!!!), a zipcard (I’ve used this to drive to pick up food for events ... for the cost of shipping heh~ they’re expensive, but at this point I ... for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  difficult and uncertain time for me, and for MIT; during their first year ... members of their class. It was, I think, the hardest year for the MIT community in my career, and I remember how scary and surreal it was for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  business from MIT that makes it easier to write up plans for building ... Interesting Things) talking about all the cool ideas they have worked on for the ... 's not just all work and no play, so for the past six hours, we got to ride

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024