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• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT ... busy playing soccer, and she immediately told me that I should give it a ... the right place for me. Five months later, I was on campus stepping onto

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  'm not looking forward to! Which is also a first for me. There was always at least ... because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it ... year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  this year. I sung along where nobody could hear me (hopefully), and laid ... i will not shut up. thank you parents for listening to me jabber on ... with her. I miss my dad coming outside to congratulate me on my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  plenty of things I did in high school that brought me joy, fulfillment, and ... with me everywhere—in the car on grocery trips, to friends’ houses, and ... —it’s discouraging sometimes to see how much the people around me are getting done, how

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  for me to understand while multitasking and good for my general state of ... , which isn’t at all a surprise to me. I spent 191 hours , which is 11 ... when familiar stories help me get through change. If I had to pick a non

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  well for me—I like focusing on fewer things at any given time, and in ... . Sometimes, younger students ask me if they should pursue the MEng, and my ... real research experience. For me, I always intended to MEng, because I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  only lost one. Now, let me walk you through the play-by-play for how our ... weekend, and something about how good we’re playing makes me think we can ... win. It just somehow didn’t happen. Later that day, my dad tells me that

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  [/annotation] asked me over Discord one day, “how many unique [orientations] can you ... failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... result still didn’t sit well with Fatema or me. We’d spent enough time

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  've decided that it's time for me to go back to my roots. no drawing could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  irreparably change that part of me. I was afraid that I would lose touch with a ... stress for granted. i had no idea what was in store for me."]first week ... art; it was more me struggling to learn how to use 3D modeling programs

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  accomplish as possible.” it took me another viewing to realize that much of ... episode that hit hardest for me was this one: “Most people spend their ... - and pull factors - wanting to move towards something. for me the more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  hours we spent writing it -- for me, that's usually two or three hours ... suddenly realize that someone knows a lot more about me than I know about ... less so (sorry, if what you want is to advertise your startup to me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  curtains every morning fills me with a sense of accomplishment that words ... right angle and allows me to defy gravity. [video width="848" height="480 ... "]GRAs[/annotation] This isn’t unique to Simmons, but that doesn’t stop me from being

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... much better grounding in music theory than me, which was initially ... with the Beatles' very first album, Please Please Me, which is most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  I didn't know what to write this week, so I made GPT-3 do it for me. If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep learning to make human-like text, based on whatever prompt and parameters you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  departments.  As a naive first year, this variety of opportunities made me ... I needed to take advantage of every opportunity available to me ... opportunity that was provided to me. I saw people from vastly different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  with the piece of paper in front of me and nobody else. Reading ... Despicable Me before so he was very confused about what language the minions ... question has pressed into me from all sides: what do I want my life to be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... certainly kept me very awake. One of the highlights was Hilary Hahn ... -based. Our conductor, Jeffery Y. '22, lives just two doors away from me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  fuzzy pillow that reminded me of him. After making dinner that evening, I ... me as I traversed the streets of Central Square with my beloved slung ... crafted wooden tools. My Sekkrit Satan gave me a pastry in the shape of feet

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  4 Me, a Northeastern fundraiser competition. both events were ... exciting for me this year since i wanted to take an active role in ... makes me so happy! it was weird to be a floor chair for this event when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021