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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... presumably the last non-science paper I will ever have to write. In my life ... a biology major to read ethnographies in which the author (an American

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that ... for most of my life i was very prone to envy. part of that was ... , and so on - but it also extended to non-academic endeavors as well. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang’s beloved sky bison, which he could have used as bait to capture Aang ... years. The act of showing mercy to the avatar challenges the very core of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  Today I want to talk about mentorship and role models, and ... give the usual spiel about how disillusioning it is to detach yourself from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... some people, but it means a lot to me. Back home, I was a "regular" at a ... to get this one waitress when we went out for breakfast, and I

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i still had one or two hours every day to occupy my brain with something before it gave up for the day. my original plan had been to work on my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  *Correction as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I decided to draw. Expressing myself through color and bad Photoshop layer

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of their first events to increase awareness about HBV and recruit new ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end ... busy studying (or panicking about studying) to worry about things like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  challenge here is deciding what to do with it. I learned during my first year ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the ... also worked a full time internship during the summer, in addition to ... . This turned out to be a good thing because it made the summer pass by

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but ... gave me my first chance to foray into the land of MIT Admissions Blogging

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  i've grown to be, where i was once easily pushed around at my first ... this blogpost was meant to be something else since i've been frankly living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... also the kinds of things that tend to kick off around the first of the ... MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a ... Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  continued on to publish a semesterly food magazine. See our first, sparkly ... of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  deadline. It's also easy to forget that the first attempt may be the hardest ... college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.  

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  went to public school." Part of the purpose of first term pass/no record ... house in Woodstock, Georgia, a town which appears to be half farms and half subdivisions of very large houses - Gone out to eat at an expensive

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006