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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  row at this point, and I figured that it would only be appropriate to ... out of any semester that I've been here. This would have increased this ... the PhD program. I don't know concretely what sorts of jobs I would

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... together. I found this video on how to make balloon bowls using sugar ... , I would provide shelter or food for them, resulting in a symbiotic

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  and obvious. "Yes." "Well then why would you say such a thing?" I ... bad for making my parents worry. I would start going to therapy about a ... little moments where I would crack. Where I would think about it for too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  reality, it's just that I don't know how to learn. I've realized that my ... much for me. This is how I felt when I dropped 6.009. I tried it, I saw ... 'm starting from square zero. I have to teach myself how to learn, but I don

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  burchard dinner). would recommend both! 3) i am currently really into the ... hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with junior year. i haven't blogged in a while, so i thought i'd write up a post

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  side of the globe. i remember having to buy special overseas credit so ... sometimes it feels like i've just left everyone hanging. i don't know how to ... [Dear kuya, how are things there? What's up, is it cold there? It's hot

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... accidents. Nonetheless, I do realize how terribly each of our experiments would have gone if I had lied about any one of my errors. Honesty works

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  When I went online to start typing up this post, I noticed an unpublished post of mine from nearly three weeks ago. Apparently I started ... it, which is just as well because I don't know what was going to be in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  idea of how people would treat me I would have figured out how to enjoy ... knew how to handle such a situation, and I would be at a loss myself, and ... . Golconda Fort was what I would call my first TWB experience (“Traveling While

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  I spent the last few days thinking about how I felt about the murder ... ” violence that would ensue had these men been anything but white. I couldn ... . HOW I WILL PROBABLY BE DOING THE SAME DAMN THING SOMETIME NEXT YEAR

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  . How I wish I were like my friend in high school, who would fall asleep ... how I endured eight excruciatingly-foodless hours today while I migrated ... last year, I wrote about how essential reading was to my existence. I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  you would expect from someone my size. I've absorbed so much irony ... talk to me, none of that would have happened. I never was good at ... pretty tan! How was your summer? me: Good. I went to the beach. pgf: Oh

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... musician told me when I paused to listen. I found out how he loved knives and ... wish I didn’t have to. I would like to be adventurous without being

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  Rejection Therapy and my insatiable urge to collect trading cards

  

  the pilot knows they did a good job. Otherwise how would they know, you ... [/annotation] and [annotation note="I have no idea what he told us"]how the Titans are ... moral of this story, but I can't get over how STINKING COOL MY AIRPLANE

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a ... would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I ... the only way I could tell how deep I was was because of the sunlight

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  thought they would. I wouldn’t say the words ran hollow, but I just couldn ... like a puzzle in hopes of solving this sorrow. But, no matter how hard I ... My first truly colossal failure feels like it happened yesterday. I

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  every right to be asking it. I certainly would be. I wish I could get ... how/why decisions of other admissions officers - it would be impossible. Some of you seem determined to make this personal. I don't know how to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people ... really cool.       Feel free to tell me how awesome I am. ... So a few days before Halloween I asked you all what I should be for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  point: I've started drinking less coffee(?!?!) truly wild. Who would ... coffee. I thought it would make me cool, which, it didn't inherently? But ... tea. I thought I would try it again, and bada bing bada boom I was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  lungs wheezed for air, someday I would reach that place, the place where it was finally enough, and I would be at peace knowing that I could outrun anything. I would be untouchable. I had a lot of friends raise

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020