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• Blog / About Decisions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... 6 AM. I've come to rely on a natural light alarm clock to help me get ... to take at least a few rest days a week, though, because that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  to keep going or are scared about the present or future. A panic ... . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... to split a $3 book of stickers or temporary tattoos with some friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  schedule have yielded a reasonable amount of free time for me to explore some ... was tragic to read, and personally fascinating to me; I’ve spent a lot ... intended to read this year: On the Way to a Smile and The Kids are Alright

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... , meal times. Summer residents contributed to a rotating cook ... of the MIT community (but my fellow MIT students were also a delight to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We Should Take This Final and Push It Somewhere Else you'll need a lot of mOXie

  

  , being bedridden for a month and your mom having to fly in to take care of ... my classes. One night, I stayed up late to help paint a banner for my ... only exam I had to take. A project, I could push through, but an exam? We

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 14, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  just happens to be a more interesting conversation partner than you are ... about our high schools. Malingap is someone offering to grill me a burger ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  it took to make these games come to life! a history WZ: Paolo was ... Next Forum Games, a precursor to dormspam-the-game, in 14.05. I promise ... had a 2.5’ x 3.5’ whiteboard that served as a message board—something to

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  trying to belittle the diploma that I'd received less than a week before ... out a way to succeed. At that point I had to stop yelling at him and ... piece of paper, society saw me as somehow qualified to be a grown up and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... milestone was to have a product sheet, pricing, electronics diagram, and CAD

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  becomes more import to REX than REX itself, then I think this does become a ... , going to the Weekend was correlated with enrolling. One of the important ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They ... . Remembering that parents are watching, the focus changes to a short segment on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  important to train yourself to believe people as a first instinct rather than ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

   do enjoy it a lot. Well, I think it’s important to know why you want to do ... ’s a weekend where high schoolers come to MIT and take classes about ... that list: Intro to Trading, a crash course about how markets work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... old blog posts, and then used gpt-2-simple to retrain it on a bunch of ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  .2%) I also asked them to choose the most important characteristics of a ... embarked on a quest to document the best study spots at MIT. most of these ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... . There are several important reasons that bloggers may not feel safe to openly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  activities in Zoom rooms. It's a lot of fun, and getting to meet and talk to so ... amidst the chaotic experience that I'm told is supposed to somewhat model a ... ,[annotation note="in particular, I had missed mine to play in a pit orchestra

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous ... you glance through this list, feel free to make a note of tools and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014