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• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  least I know how to do laundry... 8. Watch every episode of Arthur in ... ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  group, and I still can’t believe I got in. ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  everything is in place. i can let everything around me slip and then catch it ... can stop everything in my life for this great blue and then, when i feel ... sorrow.    my last words stifle in the knots of my throat, so i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break trip wayyy long ago (back in the fall!) and now we’re actually going! How ... B. ‘18. I was traveling in a group of five, and we ran into people at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  everything else I'm already doing, I don't know how it's going to fit in. It ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming ... and Society in America (which I really love) - and thinking about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year ... because I like riding in cars. Sophomore year I got a Zipcar membership

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019