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• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I ... course, you can barely tell how wonderful of an idiom it makes just from ... the other hand, if you'd asked me how I felt about feeling like negative

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... people. I'd talked with Ellen about being women in STEM, and how we'd found ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  carts available that students can use to wheel their luggage in. I was ... Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... causing chaos in society. Excerpt from Jerusalem by William Blake I turn my ... been wondering how this fits into the content of the class itself, and I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  maximize my time. I can’t just lie in bed and scroll through social media for ... heart soaring. I’ve suddenly found myself busier than ever. In the past ... on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... know if I want to be an engineer anymore. I can't tell if I never even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  can’t fully process the extent of how I am changing. When I’m on campus ... ’t think I actually fully realized just how much it all is until the first ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  this hiatus; I can't express enough how much I love being part of this ... the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a ... made me prioritize my obligations in a messy and unhealthy way. I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i can only marvel at how many important moments are soaked into the ... [/annotation] and because they can help offer an unfiltered view of what I’ve been doing for ... lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  (you can actually read a little about how I learned at that link). My ... Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course 9 (Brain & Cognitive Sciences). I started blogging in the summer

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  “What will you major in?” asked one of my senior year teachers. “I ... seventeen-year-old. “I’ll just take classes I like and major in whatever I ... asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  algebra” or “…and then I’m sure you guys can do the algebra, so in the end ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high school. In fact, (a brief tangent) I’ve always disliked it when college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having a really good time with friends. I went to the movies, I waded in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... .033 Computer Systems Engineering. We talk about databases, and how they work in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... Supercuts or whatever. In the summers I’d get a buzzcut to stay cool, and my ... , I started going to the barber in the basement of the MIT student

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  school (the one I included in my MIT blogger application). The station ... voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... on the same subject, how commenters (!!!) will respond. Autumn in D

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  -deception." "How can a man live in perfect harmony?" To which YISUN replied, "Non ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... 't change the fact that there is only so much effort i can pour into the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... learned how to drink from the milk bowl of MIT. I'm guessing this skill

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  after she told me this. In many ways, I can see how similar my mom and I ... In a call with my boyfriend a couple months ago, I asked him the ... courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020