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• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... 't) want to be alone. two in a season of secondhand joy, i talked about how ... always just me. i find myself in my room, not entirely remembering how i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  graduate for my Mech. E degree. I probably would have had a better academic ... regret doing the in-between stuff that I really shouldn’t have, such as a ... load in about a year, and communicate when I need to take time off from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . Or maybe drown. But it would be exciting! In fact, while I wasn ... moment I’ve encountered someone in MIT play the piano with amazing ... the Library, and pelt out tunes that would make Beethoven roll in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  wanted to eventually work with MIT's Game Lab. I thought that I would have ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I would really do much when I joined. I figured the first few weeks would

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  night in my early years here. i treat myself like i would an old friend. i ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  weeks. I couldn't begin to fathom how many other people are going through ... ,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my ... where I photoshopped things in creative ways, i.e. "My Two Cents". However

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to ... would have made me laugh in astonishment if it did not make me cry. I was ... structure in constant, intermittently blinding dust storms. I'd look up and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  more. In hindsight, I would say I struggled to balance (or even identify ... stop thinking about it.  In reality I think we all have a little bit of ... they graduated. With 7 years post-grad, I’m still in the midst of

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

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  events i'm interested in. there's talks and outings i would've liked to go ... schoolwork. but now i know how different not being in mit feels like. from the ... enough to enjoy. now that i'm back in school i can feel how different it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the ... that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so far) that I would love. I think my interview with them went well, but

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ,[/annotation][annotation note='Alan: I promised CJ that I would link the TikTok that he was in ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... puzzles and fixed problems in earlier rounds, we would unlock more of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  in past years I would take on lots of scheduled tasks even over IAP and ... 'd check in again--I keep meaning to blog, but each time I think about it I ... the anxieties I mentioned in my last few posts, I think I've made (some

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  A year back I developed a deep interest in understanding what made me ... understanding of how my Ethiopian and American roots played a part. For example, I ... their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In ... story of how my father became one of the few people in the world who has ... more energy efficient. I did theater tech in high school, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be ... , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  assumptions about how social connections work are wrong. I never assumed I would ... up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... make any progress. In those moments, I would forget that sometimes the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018