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• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  to be with someone who thought she was beautiful, and not just ... feel that way, I thought, not as a promise but as an observation. And ... . But after a few rounds, he got bored. "You're not good enough for this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... the blogs in 4th grade or so. I, for one, was definitely not one of ... excruciating. Not sure if it was less agonizing than actually writing all those

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  factor, in which case a meal plan is not advisable, see appendix). At MIT ... not be in the top 5 reasons for choosing a living space. Another Important note: this is not a post advocating for certain dorms. Any

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  student body AND THEIR PARENTS that I was the only one not accepted." I was ... about how it's not so bad getting rejected from your first choice school ... depite their disappointments. Be inspired by them- getting into MIT (or not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  -colinear screws that were definitely not made to hold up 80/20 metal, but it worked ... this semester (told in alliteration because why not?):  1. People Since ... someone in the lounge to hang out with. The group chat is so alive, yet not

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  . I honestly was not expecting much from the book except maybe the ... current thinking of charity as something that is good to do but not wrong to ... to donate should not affect your desire to donate. Especially since now

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  're not a tech person, right?" Arch, because the AUR is apparently the ... I’m not cool enough to use Arch, which is one of the big reasons I ... deeper understanding of how the system works, and appreciate the freedom I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about ... you never end up participating in the program, I hope you remember not ... this experience, I may not have asked to interrupt our program to give

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  ’ve improved so much. Not without a lot of hard work though. Every morning ... MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  work on you this weekend." Well, right he was. When Matt Mcgann saw my ... outright broke my subpar Houston umbrella. (It had worked for going on 8 ... from the center of campus to sleep. Of course not until after talking to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  Another GIR. I'm just not the biggest fan of chemistry. Becoming Human ... practice I was just pretty bored. Also, I bombed the tests haha. I'm just not ... coding experience (even if it's not MATLAB—shout out 6.100L!!!). Doing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  collectively decided not to compete the next day because we were so emotionally ... because of the people, but I'm not submerged in all the baggage that comes ... cycle repeats. And that’s not sustainable. I think what I’m failing to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... me, trying to find lunch.) Oil painters displayed their works along the ... saw were working on a new rendition of its elegant figure to stack onto

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  ",[/annotation] but for the purposes of this blog, I will not be worrying about this ... notion works out quite nicely. In math, a "slice" of a three ... of the giants I once was" or another. It makes me feel like I'm not

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  had planned to work with Holden M. ’25 from 9 till 11. Luckily, as I ... list included Ziarat, a city with less than 800 people but not Islamabad ... would not want to do this again unless it is improved. That is, for the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... sustain myself and work out consistently and just overall be happy with my ... definitely should not have. But usually I just remind myself that I can bounce

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in ... -entropy expressions is that they carry a high cognitive load, which is how much working ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  photography. We’ll not only get to use DSLRs and Photoshop, but we’ll also be ... /photographer extraordinaire. The fact that my schedule is rather “holey” is not something that ... find a way to make it work! Otherwise, I plan to just spend my free hours

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  list of programs (not including the ones you get from MIT for free) that ... can attest to how well they work.     Note Taking: Evernote ... you actually spend. I used it and found out that I had a 70 hour work

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... have worked in industry professions and thus have some experience in ... > (left) The MIT work/play balance in action: GEL Year Two students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010