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• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  “You can do whatever you want—well, maybe not anything you want. But you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do ... do I have to say no? So, I let her in, asking her to take off her shoes

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  it, I do want these "superficial" things for comfort and vibe ... nice? Do they look miserable? Vibes/ambiance - Can I eat here without ... , but I do get claustrophobic in an I'm-hot-asf-and-need-you-to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  instructors told me each experiment we do in 6.2410 (around two hours each) can ... need to do per computation. Single-Photon Interference This effect is a ... do with birds? Not much, to be honest, but I just wanted an excuse to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into ... fun. Having no responsibilities for this period of time, I wanted to do

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the things and doing mostly nothing. Last year, my friends and I packed our

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... —we overshoot and get too cold; too little—we take forever to reach 67°. Do we ... for 4.341 often meant going somewhere and doing something that wasn

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  essay that I thought I did well. But I would never wish to do it again. I ... because we had nothing to do. I miss how a lot of different friend groups ... miss doing one last run through as the sun set over the valley and the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... sand that we taught to add numbers (much, much better than humans can do ... insulators (i.e. they do not conduct electricity) because they’re held together

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  systems, which describes most robots that walk, fly, do backflips and other ... these few years. I did start doing better on the problem sets, especially ... . So essentially I flunked this class already and I didn't even get to do

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  the lines of "a small computer" or "a single chip designed to do things ... the nearby bathroom... I do not miss those days ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  which students are free to visit home, go on vacations, do internships ... can do it, you’re an academic weapon” or “push through, you have the ... chasing it until it’s gone; some days I can’t muster up the will to do

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  into my skin, and wanted to do something that mirrored desert fauna ... work with metal, so while I had some initial thoughts about doing the ... to power the lights, or do you need a bunch of separate plugs? How will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  genuinely passionate about what they do, and I found myself growing quite fond ... that I would normally never do. He was one of the top chess players in ... -question test. I was frustrated. Why didn't he try? I wanted to do math, not

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  depression through cognitive-behavioral therapy begins to lose their mind - do ... something i really want to get around to doing during my lifetime then i ... , because whenever i heard someone say “why do _ if the world might end before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  Program, so no way was I going to do her dirty with *eww* procrastination ... many healthy things to do while waiting for decisions like going to a ... way, but I couldn’t really give myself the space to do so. Finals came

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I ... stole my mom's camcorder a lot of the time and recorded myself doing ... I'll do another ten 2030 I'll be 40 and kill myself then When I was a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... class, if I'm doing better than my peers, or worse than. If the questions ... yes, I'm still doing really well for where I'm at. But I can't help but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  we were just doing drills, I would take every turn aggressively ... , we would do sprints in the Charles River basin, and I would yell into ... gossip and rowing and [annotation note="I don't do either of these things

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... every once in a while, doing random puzzles on puzz.link, and picking up ... ; all i had to do was drop by. i timed it such that i was able to go to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it ... countries and people need to give much more aid than we currently do. The current thinking of charity as something that is good to do but not wrong to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020