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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even harder. I think what I hadn’t prepared for was just how dissatisfying it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  suggestions about how this could be resolved. I did believe that consent was ... I turned it in, the full implications of this simple point would ... ” (from Gödel, Escher, Bach). I think this contradiction would have been

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  ' return to campus, I reveled in the laughter and greetings heard down the ... signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I ... started by students that decorate the walls. This year, because I've been

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Getting a bad grade, but still realizing how much I’ve learned to get to ... Realized how much i love my friends cooked food with good friends ... Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  number-like things. Of course, it would be harder to talk about exactly how ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... things more confusing, I have hidden some real words used by [annotation

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... There have been so many times these past few weeks where I've wished ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  When I graduated in 2018, I was talking to my partner about how lost ... never feel a sense of accomplishment regardless of how many slide decks I ... how precious this one picture I took of her dad is will always stay with

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  . My professor wound the timer, said “go” - and it began. I described how ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... (utterly bizarre) Wednesday Oct 31: I turned 20 ^ Definitely a 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and thought about how grateful I was for eating vegetables and not fish for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be ... thus far (and I’m sure Fred would appreciate having bassoons after not

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  undergrad members of management to come talk on camera so that I would have ... around tend to be dependable; [annotation note="I cannot stress to you how ... first slot was Thursday mornings, [annotation note="I would like to thank

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  might have underestimated the extent to which I would be challenged by my ... despair, “but nothing works. I don’t even know how to start.” “I’m stuck ... idea! It works!” “What?” Nick replied. “How?” So I showed him how it did

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  suddenly suspect something is wrong. To do the next step correctly, I would ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape of a glassblowing metaphor. When I thought about it more, I realized

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... community. This reminded me of a conference I had recently attended, where admissions officers and college counselors were discussing how we can support

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  how I might be able to take it out to the ocean, perhaps letting it sit ... from the future. I got a crash course in not burning out - and my mentor ... any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  would cook, and I would do the dishes. (Note: If somebody who is an ... doing it, and I'm glad. It would have been nice to have another HASS ... TV shows to watch. Adam and I have been eagerly awaiting the season

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  are hosting events on Tuesday—and it also isn’t how I would plan my own ... comes to me, I probably would have spent my Saturday afternoon at Next ... The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... more risks. Though my poetry isn't good by any means, I thought it would ... ever. I stare into this broken reflection & think of how my arm is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  fact that I don't remember how I answered a couple of the questions ... please proofread anyway.   So how should I start writing these ... of art. I realized this last year as a high school senior when I was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  a time when I would otherwise have been studying or not doing laundry ... concerned. I mean, how could I blog about life with a roommate unless I had ... For several weeks now, I've been actively intending to write about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008