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• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the ... incredibly life-changing. I am most definitely not the same person I was when I ... works best for you, so yes, you'll actually have to study for your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  (taps mic) is this thing working? hello? okay, great. that's cool. it's been a while since i wrote a sad post here. well, not sad exactly ... less funny, or witty, or whatever. it's not like i haven't been sad. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , knowing that I'm not alone, it's simultaneously very raw and scary. I know ... over and over again, slowly filling with more and more rage, not at the ... 're not stupid, you should get this." It feels like somewhere I can reach

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  first time that I ever worked with wood was during [annotation note ... to help build a fort. I didn’t have any experience working with wood. I ... [/caption] The edges of the block are unevenly sanded. They’re not sharp to touch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  students. Do not let the high tuition or low admission rate discourage you ... getting stuck with a small friend group and not getting to know all the ... MIT — I couldn’t wrap my head around [annotation note="Lucky for me, not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  Hey folks, it's been a while. I've been very focused and not in a ... summer has been full of new colors. Last semester was not the best, and I ... side of my family in Turkey. I hadn't been there in 5 years, and I worked

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  either frontload all your work or just not go, especially if it's not early ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull ... who cannot stand it when I'm not prepared for something I easily could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  take a derivative, and hopefully I will not have to take an integral ... ++. I've worked with it twice in internships before, but maintain that it ... exercises. I'm not good at them. CMS.307 (Critical Worldbuilding): This is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  would have a healthy amount of work. However, something I did not factor ... not being an athlete + a lighter class schedule + spring break + being a ... write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  favorite people Reading all day instead of doing urgent school work ... dining Cold weather Boys Girls Losing friends :( the work that ... final projects Getting fat Getting sick and not being able to take

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  (including Snively), four freshman bloggers and two seniors (not including ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly ... may or may not have had a dark, traumatizing life experience involving

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work – good work, the kind where I do it and then I’m like, “Whoa! I know stuff ... workspace (although I rarely use it as one – I avoid doing work in my room as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  1962 but did not receive a prize (interesting enough, none of the partial prize winners' designs worked when commercially developed.) To test his ... to any type of stairs and will not slip because the static reactions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  fly by and we rip that away from you. We kick you out and make you work ... think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... , as I gallivant and frolic across this all-too-familiar-yet-not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students ... spent months working on :) On Class Council, we tend to have a signature

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  a thinkpiece about race. This is just me working through my own ... Anti-Asian sentiment in America is not new, but this last year has given ... Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  parents' office: Mom, I feel like it's not gonna work. Just so you know, it could totally fail. Juuuuust so you know, it might not work at all. And ... 's what I name everything important." 🥺) I realize it's not exactly a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  This is not a post about budgeting, because no one likes to hear how to not spend their money. I definitely didn't, even when I really ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  has definitely increased, I could not be happier with how life is going ... time not efficiently. This semester has made me formulate a more ... breakfast/brunch (normally it ends up being brunch cause sleep is not for the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  1896 MIT yearbook, Technique. To be perfectly fair, women were not on ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in ... mentioned did not accept women at the time of the poem's publication) The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017