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• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  content warning: mention of suicide. one I'm sick of all this, "How ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... with them. i'm on top of my work, and i don't want to kill myself. on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough outlines and hand-wavy explanations of the topics I've covered, sort of as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ’s actually in the sense of, “the place where something originates”, like alma ... ”. I don’t know where that comes from; my best bet is an abbreviation of ... meaning of the word enough, could also mean something expensive, valuable

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I ... . However, there always comes a point where a bedroom becomes more of refuge ... of the time? what do these feelings even mean?"]agonizing teenage self

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  . “Will you go back?” This moment is a snapshot of many conversations I ... challenge of obligation. I invited members of the EESA (Ethiopian ... office. Earlier that month, a slew of Ethiopian political prisoners

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , 956 sessions** 1330 hours of classes *mostly MIT undergraduates **you can sign up to teach >= 1 sessions of any class 1330 hours of classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an ... ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... first two years of med school was HARD as a MIT grad. But you ask: doesn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... the game like a crack of lightning, and you can instantly tell what type

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

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

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014