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• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... board games with them. you live in a place with a high density of people ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  dust gathers in the corners. The equipment is shaky and old, and there ... your strength, the wobbly feeling in your legs when you climb stairs the ... training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• 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 ... , when I did finally get home, I was in for a surprise. Although I was only away for 3.5 days, in that time my parents managed to: Finally realize

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  FREAKING insane. As a brief overview, I have (in approximate order ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... experiences in my life. BUT after two days we found a place that a) would allow

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... feel like a failure a lot of the time and it takes everything in me not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  metro manila, you see, and in high school earth science lessons we would ... felt the effects. i remember the the one thing all the stories had in ... in every direction, eventually reaching manila. you couldn’t drive very

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... in mind that all libraries are good boys, and therefore these ratings ... dome -- you take the elevators in Lobby 10 up to the fifth floor, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... . These opinions are in every way my own and don’t reflect Google’s views ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  ’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science ... an electronics class, or simply gotten ahead in my requirements to ... perfectly good jobs in mechanical engineering everyone, even if they don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  . One of my HASS classes is in French IV, which I was frightened into taking after realizing how bad my French was while studying in Europe this ... maybe some pattern drafting thrown in. What the class has ended up being

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  rediscovered a diary that I kept in first grade. My favorite entry reads ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and ... space was cool. High School science was a less successful experience. In

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

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  ’ll look different. No one will notice.” The first shifted his weight in his ... of the world was overcast, but somewhere in the Pacific Ocean a cruise ... and Harvard bridges and, in boats and on the bank, the stretch of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about ... overnight supervisors in the dorms. So I started teaching at TDI 10 years ago

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  Tonight I was in an MIT admissions webcast, which was targeted ... chill because I was required to have PE every day in high school) I ... , the one who pulls the rope that the sail is attached to. (Now, in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a ... in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told ... 're not trapped in a Vogon airlock (or are you?), but I do have advice for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of success in achieving said goals, this probably would have been a ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... 't already have high school friend coing to college in NYC, you're bound to ... ordered a $288 Chinese New Year party platter in the Singapore Cafe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  Almost forgot... In all the laziness surrounding my vacation, I ... Thursday for all of IAP in a classroom. As long as I pass all of the tests ... semester. If I take the national registry exam, I will also be certified in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the only 24-hour establishment in Boston- so it must be true! According ... the title of "best milkshakes in Boston" at one point, I'm pretty sure ... .) We only went in the wrong direction for about a block and a half, which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... spend another year or two in MIT and get another degree, or should I leave Boston and work in industry? Never mind the question of what industry I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024