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• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... debates, and apart from those questions being very… relevant in recent ... court cases in American history. The professor was also a great lecturer

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  much as some people have in their first semester. Even my sister, who has ... kernels soaked in cold milk). Day 2 (Sunday) Veggie Galaxy (Brunch) Still ... drizzling in the afternoon, so I went to Jahunger – a Uyghur restaurant that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  Obligatory Swim Test Lore:  The MIT Swim Test was created in the ... ![/annotation] You are required to swim 4 laps in the pool without stopping, with 3 ... -shirt for showing up! In 2020, when the world shut down and MIT went virtual

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  your hardest year.” She told me this five years ago, back in 11th grade. “You work harder in high school than college,” she said; she had, as a math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

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

  unicorns big confusion

  

  i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... as a rough estimate of a company’s expected value in the distant future people can be unicorns too. not in the business sense of the word, since

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  , but right now it feels so close. east campus always builds things in the courtyard for rush, and this year is no different. in fact, i signed up to be ... , to see so many people and have things in-person again, but at the same

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in class all day. Isn’t innocence so [annotation note= " *cries in psets and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross ... we met. In this post, I describe how we've stayed in contact (and even grown closer) since being sent home due to COVID-19. Staying in contact

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  conference in Florida! The view from our hotel room. As its name indicates ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... been working on (which could potentially be exploratory or in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... lives up in pictures, detailing the events they attend, the reality shows

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... second, wanted to sit in it and be wheeled around and pulled in and out of the ambulance.) After that, we got to sit around in the (really awesome

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  romantically?" "If you dipped your person's head in liquid nitrogen so their hair ... (which I had in June), but I never go to Philadelphia and I won't eat Cheez ... Allison was worth the most because she's a girl and artistic. I was worth in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Baseball!! a blog about baseball and internet games and embroidered hats and New Zealand Indie Rock.

  

  events like playing underground capture the flag in the main campus ... push the carnage of our duck back across campus in the dark."]water fight ... aquarium trip or something. In this year’s case, the prize was Red Sox

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  backseat to the other things in my life. in my mind blogging is either one of ... ? these thoughts have always felt like they kept me grounded, in a sense, so what if i overshoot, what if i adjust too much in the wrong direction? in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I ... large, oddly-shaped area under the curve and zoom in: And then keep zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in ... 's, but all too often it can also mean being stuck in lab, not eating.  And ... 's experience at MIT Explored diverse backgrounds facing difficulty in areas

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  It's raining. I'm sick. No lab today, because the postdoc in our group also picked up whatever viral assemblage has been partying in my ... of this writing, I have exactly 11111 unread messages in Gmail

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  , I try to be.” - my blogger bio, circa summer 2023 In one of the ... there are people who are immensely better than I am at math in every ... it themselves. At this point in my life, I think I agree. When I try to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving ... . As I grappled with changes in my career and my personal life, I used ... the world around me in the spirit of “you are what you eat.” The results

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023