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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  lived experience. However, I can help you think about place and how it ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their ... the inherent strengths of this experience. So this is where I come in

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

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  , completely mind-numbing oddities that can be found in the tubes. Do you ... "dramatic lemur," and how some unnamed "people in the lounge" were concerned ... justice to how...I don't even have the words. Seriously? That kid was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making ... or for worse, the same person I was in high school. But also, how could ... forced me to take stock of what relationships I’ve been able to form in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  , getting lunch at the cafe in Stata. I couldn't have imagined just how full ... Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... ... exist in spaces surrounded by people. I wrote something similar back in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  can do, for how we as people live in the world. Course 11 is the perfect ... office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... take classes in course one, I realized I would definitely get the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you can in, say, a coding interview. Increasingly, I feel the weight of ... be quick to support others however I can.  In-between all that, I ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  if i'll be trampled and shoved in a giant sweaty mass of college ... any effort whatsoever (yes, i did go fratting in pajamas more than once ... frat gave us fried Oreos, which slapped. oh frats, how i miss you

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , but how can i be content when i know that i didn’t achieve p e a k ... -coded chunks than i can name, i feel as if i’ve gained very little. the ... Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  withdraw from MIT entirely and become a hermit in the woods -- surely I can ... the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified ... I still retain something from my contest math days and can totally do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... , often alludes me. All I know is that I like or don't like how I feel about this feeling (that I can't quite pin down), and I say that I love it or

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in middle school, and every year in elementary school. You'd think I'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea ... , I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan ... and I really want to give you guys everything I can, as far as the past

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... . How to cheer very loudly on the sidelines. I remember the only time I ... how accomplished it made me feel. Sophomore year, I came back ready and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  between. IV: My, My, How Can I Resist You? Of course, by the time Paolo and ... I: Just One Look and I Can Hear a Bell Ring I live on a fairly ... watched it during a phase in my life where I truly believed that all art had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free ... So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  decisions. Wow I love that place. Spinach can be hidden in literally any ... summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  stick your head in wet paint. How did I stick my head in wet paint ... tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... and I fell over in shock. The ninja police did nothing to rescue me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... time in Maine (when I can’t easily classify things as “good” or “bad”, I

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020