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• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  supermarket and it is absolutely DIVINE with honey"]tea[/annotation] to ... advice people give is, “Don’t procrastinate.” To which basically no one ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT

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

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

  

  lot i don't really have anything to complain about right now, because i ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week ... backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of

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

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... to anything like it again. Yet, somehow, sophomore spring got even ... myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... trying to develop a style. I’d had other bedrooms, before then, like when I ... too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine

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

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 2 Hold on, this is a long one. Tons of pictures though!

  

  , and tie for me while Maddie just packed clothes to put on later. I brought nice shoes but there was no way I was going to wear them all day, so ... issues. It was hard to sleep on (bumpy) but we got some naps in. When the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson, who holds meetings on or near registration day to discuss potential

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... games,” [annotation note="CJ tried to explain but I refused to follow, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  admission process?" While I know the ideal answer to the question above is ... . Answering that question without more information can be reductive to your ... shapes your access to resources, your perspective, and your resilience, and

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  confident to face the world, knowing my strengths and weaknesses a bit better ... of thing much more now! I tried to do research really hard. I grinded, and developed, but I struggled. I am trying to finish the projects I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... Bureau as part of the Midwest, seems much more suited to the moniker

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  happy lunar new year the year of the tiger

  

  have to wear red daily to ward off bad luck. Somebody else asked me today why birth years are unlucky. I do not know why, although according to a ... , Gossip Girl was on television, I went to a nerd school where people were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... middle school self had sent a letter to their senior year self, making some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020