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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  lately for these blog posts. So when two friends in the GEL program told ... engineering, and MIT is fantastic for that. The general ethos I got from meeting ... . MIT fit the bill and has really, really been both of those things for me

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the ... were announced, I looked over the shoulder of another mutual friend who ... with him for a variety of reasons, but cutting the toxic people out of my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  what are you it makes you stare very hard at the mirror, looking for a ... the news and think pieces and editorials for quite a while. And after ... Donald's each and it was disgusting!” (while watching the music video for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and ... up with joy and relief. At the first chance for audience participation ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  at the kitchen table and I look out at the river, I feel like I’m in ... before i left for boston, and i cried...a lot. the complex mother ... schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  ask for help. those asked for help: i'd get something good out of the ... the festivities tonight: 6:30 meet on kresge oval for a picnic 7:00 the ... during the day for the runaround. I met my friends at 7 pm at Anna

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  about college was the need for a refined major. In many instances, inside ... good handwriting. Let’s hope you stay for the trip :) Now, as ... overview of interests before I wound up at the Institute. Fetus Era For the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  the world of Splash if I had shown up for the teacher training, but I ... classroom. We would sit in on each other’s lectures, mostly for the formality of having two adults in the room, but I was also looking forward to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... work on the turkeys. I went for my photoshopped hand turkey first ... !!!!! Then it was back to shooting turkeys. I went for the 2.005 turkey next

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year ... something that i'd get sent to the hospital for"]occasionally literally) foam ... and planned for whenever i work up the courage to get it...the list goes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  -Conner rooming committee, for doing a fantastic job with the in-house reassignment ... third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... . J. P. Licks, the ice cream store of choice of many MIT bloggers, for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  proportionately much more resources for biology and chemistry among the sciences. I ... algorithm would pick one of the choices for their schedule. It refused to give ... the content, I don't think I'll fit into the field, mainly for the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  i've like, built up over the years A: for no good reason B: same B ... work A: yeah and i bet they're saying to themselves A: look at these ... all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  drained. For the high school seniors out there who are applying to college ... the other EA school, I was not for all the places with December ... deferral letters for both schools tipped me over the edge, and I just

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I love always having something to look forward to. The other day, some ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... blurs all the lines. The semester is almost over. That means I'm almost

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall ... ) was MIT’s graduation and I was looking at all the pictures on Facebook ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was actually pretty astounding. He’d lost the ability to speak and, for that week

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  these past two years have been wild. here's all the times i've moved ... this room.) this is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who've lived in this room. many of the things in this room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . Ha, looks like the elements did have a place in my list! I feel ... that day. For the first time in ten years. The next two days were

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we ... perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... nourished by the university."]Aulus.[/annotation] (Me: "Mom, if you were my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020