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• Blog / About Decisions

  random thoughts about choices why mit? why not mit?

  

  't made the decision yet, well, i was once in your shoes. i didn't commit ... i thought mattered to me turned out not to matter as much. there are ... your reasons for choosing mit are your reasons, it might be better not to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... expertise I wish to take (#22). Enjoyable on-campus jobs are very much “a ... positions, but the opportunities for fun work are always available. I adore

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  recipes often start off with [annotation note="“my grandma first made me ... …”"]seven introductory paragraphs of backstory?[/annotation] Those are the worst. So I ... that are stuck on the board, or no longer erases well at all — when

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  of [annotation note="The same glass your windows are made of ... Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... , “conductive polymer” is somewhat of an oxymoron. Polymers are almost always

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  together where we get to see yet another lovely TA. all of my TAs are so ... floor, next to where all the restaurants are. it's been a while since we ... 's going on. it's a good pace for me, and my notes for this recitation are

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  we get to go to events for free. The CMS department sponsored me and a ... inspiration for writing the dialogue in his scripts. Anime and music are also ... only made it big in the 1970s and 80s, the industry is only now going

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free ... scale: the lines are 30m, or 100ft. 6.02 am: i wake up abruptly from a ... . Location: Stata Center right after i made this one, i realized my class is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary an image a day keeps the psets away

  

  school. It made my 57 units look tame. They were enrolled in 84 units, and ... /15/21 MIT BSU made an Instagram post and sent some emails about Black Convocation, and I screenshotted the poster they made. I wasn't able to make it

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  . These are my EXACT rainboots and I actually made sure I purchased ... NEVER have a pleasantly warm spring break? Hmm...well, there are a few ... rain involved and lots of it. And lots of rainboots are involved. So many

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are ... there are very few pictures of me in a cheerleading uniform on good hair ... members at the Activities Midway. We mostly utilized free candy and the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  . There are other bloggers who have written about this class, including Waly ... factors like color, paint, imagination, and so on would’ve made art as a ... approachable: here are a few tools, now draw what you see.  being ~bad~ at

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Cyrillic by that point, both of which are entirely probable.) The day after ... free!) And off I ran, striding down Massachusetts Avenue to the ... and got one for free, inexplicably. Will is a logical person who sits in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  check it out, and at the very least, grab some free swag. ** Most of the ... four-ways, combined with the stipend, made it very affordable. Plus, with ... perks were incredibly enticing too. Across both offices: free massages, an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Panic! at the Disco phase where I made an Instagram account for it (~7k ... where I started out. You can see a playlist I made based off of it here ... , they made this fanmade MV for it which included Fall Out Boy's Sugar We

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb ... calorimeter, where all the work I do is measurable but ultimately dissipates ... -M + Institute Lab, 12 units): This one’s a synthetic biology class where we

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  unnecessary, blessed as we are by the magic of mobile technology. But I wanted ... , they'd taken a left turn off the path and stopped for lunch! Yay! Where ... , made them seem longer and harder. [caption id="attachment_92674" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  the right choices when I don’t know what those are.” I made progress at ... song about femicide in Mexico.  Here are two things I weighed heavily: Audience: There were points in my recovery where a post like this could have

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  . However, there always comes a point where a bedroom becomes more of refuge than simply a room, when the four walls are the only thing left in ... her to the side of my dresser, overlooking the desk where I worked

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  of living in Maseeh that I hope you will find useful, whether you are ... because you are just interested to know more about Maseeh Hall, or because you are a pros and cons list connoisseur, or because you meant to click

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  .  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time ... to make us feel better. However, there are some nice things about ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014