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• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  .) You don't have to be on your game at all times, but it's a good idea to ... were mean.) Figure out when you work best. I'm a morning person and have ... fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  could use his credit card." "You can't just send an ion through a ... especially (while you may think this is strange because I'm a vegetarian, I ... plate(s). Just because I'm small and Asian doesn't mean I can't eat

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  happens in a person’s life that “good” doesn’t quite cut it. It doesn’t even ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the ... to hear about the cool thing you did this week. Physics doesn’t make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  isn't super fashionable (especially when I'm wearing Spandex shorts ... room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor ... ? Growing up is a beautiful thing, ain't it? Moving was bittersweet, and one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  it work and go home and call it a successful soldering day. It didn't ... 's hard to get that feeling (for me, at least) when I'm sitting behind a ... hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  "] i still can't believe i was actually given a platform for my garbage ... my life, but it doesn’t encapsulate my experience at MIT as a whole ... i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... classes but I'm going to pretend like I never said that. Hope you all had a ... Cambridge? Me: Uhh, October 1st, so around 4-5 weeks! Friend: Woah, that's a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  anyway, I was thinking, shouldn’t I maybe eat turkey tomorrow? I’m going to be with a friend’s family, so I didn’t want to be rude -- and, as I ... that the benefit isn’t really worth the cost. And now I’m feeling that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  . But now I’m here. Only a couple months in, but here. And I am happy.  In ... , but there’s also just a general sense of ambient happiness. When I’m ... be excited or stressed about, I’m just… a low-key, contented kind of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... , I'm sitting cross-legged on a floor of Maseeh with my FPOP friends

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  ,” or “miss," even though we don’t know each other and I’m certainly not a ... wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and shoes that cost less combined. My hair fades ... customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a ... "]Puzzle Sprint,[/annotation] who won a free 14k gold ring! After that, at long last ... , our work didn’t really begin until a few months later, during the summer

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  hall on campus, 26-100, with a capacity of 566. But it isn’t even the ... figures and tables from the papers. I couldn’t think of a better way to ... meetings with probably think I’m a slacker). The class itself is amazing too

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  Sunday, because even though I'm writing this at 4:45 AM, tomorrow isn't until 6 AM by MIT rules. Elizabeth was kind enough to organize a trip to ... somewhat early) and a large proportion of the bloggers were probably still

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  the front desk, and so the Burton-Conner deskworkers think I'm a little ... about sending a sick note to my TA, which they normally don't do over the ... So I'm sick right now. Again. It's some lovely combination of fever

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  me. I'm sorry I didn't spend this Thanksgiving at home--I promise I'm ... course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if you're reading this--thank you for everything. I know I wouldn't be able

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... this semester, but in practice, it doesn't feel like it? i'm taking 6 ... weeks writing it on-and-off. while it's only around 10k words, it's a lot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  if you don't like what I'm about to say or how I said it. It was once a ... Alexie (you don't have to run out to get it right now, but it'll be a nice ... (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  window in a high rise or a friend or a tree. Would it be the things I can't ... , approaching my last year as a wandering undergrad, I'm spending way more time ... is a lecture about achieving childhood dreams. I don't know you may

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012