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• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in a more authentic state (even if i cringe reading it now).  i

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... Davie '12 and I went to an exhibit about using toys to communicate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  imagines a universe when my parents were more accepting of me, and it is ... people graduated a couple weeks ago and i didn’t feel as sad i was supposed ... upm or ateneo or ust or la salle, and these are all nearby. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  piano was to fill a random spot for the State Solo and Ensemble Contest in ... pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  palace is used only occasionally for state functions and on most days ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance. I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  theirs. There are people doing externships in other states and countries or ... transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took classes that I had to pay attention to, and somewhere along the way learned that respecting your teachers was a thing, and obviously reading while

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories ... , if you can imagine- and how freaking awesome it was. Seriously guys, go ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... asked him a question about the physics department at MIT, and he directed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about ... Internet! Long time, no talk. Why such a long time and so little talk ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... little overboard and printed more than I needed. There were so many big ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week, I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... Italian word that I directed at waitstaff, cashiers, and train operators ... total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  great state of New Hampshire and unironically love fall colors, hiking ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... sketching, and even more watercoloring. In short, it was nothing I had hoped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  around 9:30, and started right in on the 18.03 pset that was due Friday. I ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... Slave Girl (which is only suggested and not required reading for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006