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• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no ... what I eat. This is partly out of curiosity toward my own collegiate ... the best. Beast (2E) has food on the free food table nearly every day of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart swelled as I talked about MIT, and MIT Admissions, and Petey, and all of the ... naively, well, of course, yes, I do cherish my time at MIT. But it wasn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past semester, maybe three, which for me is probably an all-time low. Of course ... -up of the firehose. But still. Back when I [annotation note="almost two

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  character syndrome." I agree. I think my sense of self is a little too acute ... I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... 't for cross registration, I might never have met some of my best friends ... Harvard friends when we lived Boston. The second part of this story (coming

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  common was the mention of ash. there was a lot of ash, which the wind blew ... far without ash sticking to the windshield of your car. there was so ... , an explosion of water, and rock, and steam, and dust, and ash. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011 ... reason, and with many of the the same goals. And times have changed, and so ... up with folks from MIT Comms, who were leading the redesign of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  Hello friends, As you can guess from the title of this post I am ... full weeks of class at MIT (rather than three weeks earlier before we ... have no idea what’s going on in 6.006 (Algorithms), and “The First Law of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  At the start of the semester a close friend of mine gave me her loft ... -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea. Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... it would be a winner, since I had already seen it while rushing one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  the eventuality of winter break. [caption id="attachment_95733" align ... gave it my all. I used every bit of time I had left to slap together a ... said than done. tooling At the start of the semester, I tried to take

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  about some of the things I did to avoid thinking about decisions. Hopefully some of these help take your mind off of college, even if just for a ... 't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it was bright but unforgiving. i’ve been wearing a lot of red, sort of ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  As per my previous post, I've been going through a lot of shit! But there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been ... just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... asleep mid-exam; and, as a result, because I left most of it blank. cue the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of our lord 2022 -- many people have made fun of me for this, but it's like ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022