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• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  , as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... .67 classes and a UROP all at once again (because come sophomore fall I’d take six classes and a UROP instead, and join several new communities, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and once I've had a chance to reflect and forgive myself for stupid mistakes

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of ... episode by myself—the few series I consumed here and there were with other people, and rarely, at that. So now that I'm home and fangirling intensely

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thoughts for the New Year A semester's worth of thoughts, tbh

  

  I was reading through my old blog posts and realized that it’s been a while (read: the entire semester) since I’ve blogged about my thoughts and ... recently and more frequently than I’d like to admit. For the most part

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  while I clean up this potential PR disaster; if I don't, Chris and Dave ... to dislike. You tell people you don't really like bacon and they tell you they're going to steal your firstborn and hold him hostage until you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures and stories of groupwork: From Louis, '14, New York City A photo from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and ... something in the lot, Teaching English to a class (and watching them sing "I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a ... Transportation Authority is here and Google Maps is here. Learn to love these ... on the internet figuring out where my favorite stores and restaurants

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World ... -graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and ... , Adam and I landed ourselves an all-expenses-paid vacation to Pickerington

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... , and the pain was still there. I felt hot. I held my hand against my neck, and felt warmth radiating through my palm. I would've grabbed a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

   Monologues themselves and some written pieces, but since last year our pieces are all ... MITMo last year and I love this post so definitely give that a read. This year I decided to write another monologue to give at the performance, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  't name, I open up a blank Wordpress file and start typing. It barely feels ... stops I look at the words I've typed and I see my own vomit on a screen ... tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  --the research and academics are, of course, first-rate, but I wanted to know what ... stories that have stuck and relevant snippets of my own life. ([1 ... her parents rather than herself, hiding all signs of struggle, and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  was going to keep me from declaring [annotation note="Computation and ... need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  twinkle lights and I occasionally guilt myself into putting my phone down ... friends- and I go back to bed.  [video width="640" height="1136" mp4="https ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... , but we still call it Dead Week, and I'd say we manage to cram about a ... all the things I've been up to -- and there is some studying, I promise

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  was the only light reflecting over my anxious face, and no one dared ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... sent it over so it could be edited and within 5 minutes I got a hearty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Food We Made! a photo dump of non-aesthetic pictures

  

  In high school, we liked cooking and baking. We also liked ... to try to take nice pictures of the process and final result. But ... had the time for it. And hence haven't blogged any food related content

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and ... stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour ... (nicer than expected) Airbnb, i spent an afternoon and the next day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  December. It was torturous, and the clock seemed to tick too fast and too ... spans now from our phones and need constant stimulation. Which perhaps is ... terrible happened to them and they’re in the hospital and…you get the point

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019