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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  say that. I own that.  There’s a lot I could say here, but I’ve been ... two things. it’s like a venn diagram: (excuse the dark photos. I'm on ... your life and sigh? That’s a pretty unfortunate almost-circle. Maybe let’s

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down ... would have normally left untouched during other semesters. It's really

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a ... , because in the end, food is great. I like food, you like food. So let’s get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  mind. But now it’s gone and I love tetris!  A movie (“Tetris”) also came out last year about the making of tetris and it’s so great. It’s about the insane story of how Tetris was made, and the Creator Alexey Pajitnov’s

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  heavily invested during soccer matches; it’s a fact. I can barely stay still ... it’s over. Observations (of the World Cup): One of the best parts ... get the internship (Elle Woods: like it’s hard?) and excel and change

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  Wish I could explain it better --- Happier than Ever by Billie Eilish It’s ... . It’s nice that the commuter rail exists for getting to suburbs outside ... off of my bike for this part, so it’s easy to just not get back on

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

    I have a conversation with my Anxiety. This year I learned that it’s much more helpful to ask Anxiety why it’s acting up instead of ignoring ... or not, you can actually learn a thing or two by asking it what’s up

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  . The way that MIT’s academic calendar works is that the Fall semester is ... Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind ... didn’t really get accepted anywhere. But that’s fine, because there are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  project. Let’s break down this question into a few topics. First, what does ... of the Sahara for this reason—that’s maybe one of very few places that ... we don’t have to worry about water for crop irrigation. But, there’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  I’ve been home for winter break since last Sunday, and it’s been a flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... from home. Aka, it’s finally time to post my (extremely belated

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  for iap. that’s independent activities period, which is exactly what it ... awash with students bustling to and fro. floorpi feels like it’s a little ... tuesdays thursdays 11 to 3. there’s a waltz class on monday evenings at 7

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it’s ... Step Up II Also been sort of keeping up with America’s Got Talent

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  Adele, Owl City, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga good 80’s music - mostly Bon Jovi and random 80s hard rock songs bad 80’s music - Complete with every catchy, overplayed song from the 80s that you can think of ec

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  that’s a lot of you! Last year around this time I wrote an entry called Application Advice, where I dispensed...application advice. It’s probably worth ... applications? It’s a pretty standard question, but it’s actually a very good one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  (architecture). “How do you perceive pika?” someone asked. “It’s a little ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it ... pika’s dining room"]CGE[/annotation] to strike up conversations with my

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  It’s been three months since Ring Delivery, where sophomores receive ... dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  knew existed scrambled to put him back together again.” - Pride’s ... felt like it was about to collapse within itself. Here’s the thing, the ... mind. That’s not to say I didn’t worry about things, BUT the fact that I

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress ... cooked on EC’s very own grills, iconic for being there every single day of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  like but also where it’s located, and this knowledge is helpful because ... ." "While Newton’s friends were at the pub, he spent his free time uncovering ... is my roommate’s girlfriend)." "Whether we are learning to avoid the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021