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  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof ... through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... every week where i was “forced” to dedicate the time to drawing, a hobby

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  them. Trust me, I've been there. But luckily for you, I've spent years ... of a Spice Theorem I've been following, with a little help from, in my ... a can of your chosen legume, P1, and microwave for 3 minutes in a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  are. I did everything from: Buying lunch for the talent and crew ... , outreach, and production. We also have a blog, where I'll be writing about my ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  . I live a 5 minute walk from Newbury, one of the most iconic streets in Boston. I can see – and hear – Fenway Park from my window. Cafe 472, an MIT ... with how this decision of joining a sorority has turned out for me. I am

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend ... loss. And so I sat on my bed and cried. I cried for a while, and my mom ... thrive there.  I also needed a place I could afford. I took the SAT for a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  make for my room. When I came across some[annotation note="MIT has a big ... 't done was add a few extra screws that I suspected it would need for ... . I picked what we were going to make: a replacement for a makeshift

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  of a nerd. I spent a good amount of time feeling sorry for myself in ... attribute to hide or compensate for. I was lucky enough to know a few openly ... disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... . I attribute a statistically significant portion of this to a mismatch between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for ... . The audience that I used to write for has now graduated from college ... the anger and loneliness and sadness, to get to a place where I could

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  doesn't bother me This happened to me this year. I studied days for a test ... I have finally made it home for the holidays. Let me tell you, there ... if it's so snowy that nobody can leave/come to my house for anything

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  leading me down a place where I can never recover from? It’s extreme to ... weeks. I can’t: Sit still in a lecture, can’t stop my eyes from running ... , listening to every sound I can to take my mind away from class. My hands, when

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  graduate from college, I can say now that failing out of MIT was one of the ... year, I started changing my mind a lot more, started looking for new ... forms a stable foundation for future classes. I think the effects of a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  for a direction. For now, I’m just trying to embrace the unknown and let ... planning things after work virtually impossible. For a while, I accepted ... For those of you curious about life after MIT, I recently wrote this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... could expect no more from myself. I gave no updates, for nothing had ... trusted MIT to make a good decision (though actually, I’d been almost

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  's nice to get a break in the middle of the school day where I can truly ... happen around the city and for once I don't feel like an intruder or a ... of the year. No one can force me to get a dining plan. I don't have to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision fatigue an occupational hazard, and how to manage it

  

  off several local options. I paused for a beat, then a few more. "Uhh ... 's gotten to the point where she can tell when, and how long, I've been in ... physically tired from the last week, that was a sign that I shouldn't do any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 21, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  :  One meal for each of the three books/seasons. I considered doing a meal ... , symbolism, or theme. For a few weeks throughout the summer, I would watch ... attention to detail and world-building. Zuko Alone: I’m a sucker for

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... college experience, and I prepare for my 10-year college reunion, I thought ... home a few times a week, even if just for a few minutes. In college

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you need a well-paying job when you graduate? B: So I can live well. A: Why ... where they do because we've reached a complete [annotation note="i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  -year students, the Midway is a spectacle for the senses. In my first Midway I put ... . If I had a plan, it ate the plan. …But I'm still me. So I can come up ... a responsibility or a relationship. The word commit is from Latin

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022