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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  where I spend most of my time, take a deep breath, look up at the stars ... picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... stuck at home for 6 (yes, for real, thanks mister snow storm) extra days

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... like you were there with us, here's a little bit of the evening: And in ... "Eggggghhhhhhh." I don't think it was at all acceptable to say "Google dot com" in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eleven "And the award for 'least creative entry title ever' goes to..."

  

  all year and he decides now, with two weeks of school left (at that ... wasn't hard, just very badly organized. At the end of every term, you ... it considering the tuition here, but at least it's over. As one of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  .) “What was Course VI originally known as at MIT?” We’re now in the realm of ... make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  Year Grade Report it says to return the form at the end of the second ... -year grade report at the end of January. Also, a quick question about ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  elimination. (I kid you not.) I made a list of all 20 some odd majors here at ... found out that all of my finals were crammed into the first two days of finals week, I thought- "YES! I'll get out of here way early." So I told my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  anxiety and feelings of depression often feel at odds with each other. in ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the ... middle, to three of their friends flanking them. i glance again at the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... latest book, The Soul of Anime, examines the notion of "collaborative creativity" in the context of Japanese anime production and propagation through

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  quantitative measures of growth. I first realized my tendency to quantify at the end of last semester. One of my final assignments in a literature class ... easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  HORRIBLE! You probably just lounged around and laughed at all of us!" While I ... a giant party that you get to be the guest of honor at. Soak it in ... 't gotten in and spent quite a while fairly upset. Thousands of applicants

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  when I was a wee freshman and now she's all grown up and class of 2011 ... the little pine tree on the side of the road instead of the big huge ... , and good thing, too, since I'll be working at NASA this summer building

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  felt, at least, to me. i’ve seen members of the esp team put in hours ... to lead me through any steps. i was taking a phase two waltz class, at the time, so i knew most of the basics. the cuer’s voice tells us the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  out instead of taking them all at once, there are a couple arguments ... classes you'll never need and don't even like instead of spending your time ... spent a lot of time and effort preaching to you about your high school

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  at the end of an Ashante concert. (This is NOT an endorsement of ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  nonbinary folks. If none of them respond, I look at couples, and then men, and ... YOURSELF A DECENT BACKPACK. I made the mistake of getting one for $35 at ... My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , hiking, yoga, pistol, soccer, etc). Your major is declared at the end of ... is one of the most popular places to UROP at MIT. 2:33 -- Internships ... ). I think I've mentioned before that I sit through one of these every so

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at ... Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that ... period at MIT! wait... that's not quite right... Uhh, the weekend before

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  while watching the turtles at the pond where I’m working. I am jealous of ... Calendar, which I commit to memory every week. At the table, a few of us talk ... :20 — My second alarm. I ignore this one too. 11:25 — I roll over at this

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025