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• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  :30am. I stumbled around French House for a bit, bundled up, and shuffled ... the grass for a dog sniff security check. I didn't consider my notebook ... read my book for an hour and a half (did I mention that showing up at 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  nobody in 18.032. Due to a mandatory recitation for another class, I would ... say I’m a nerd for caring so much about learning certain topics outside ... for a class or something?” He seemed confused why we wanted to talk

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally ... in. To simply do things out of a love for it and nothing else. I hope ... , since it's not a question of whether I belong or not; it's doubt of my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breaking Normal From Freshman Spring Archives

  

  , dragging pajamas on in a hurry before jumping into the softest bed for a nap ... I may be tempted to position myself in the lounge for a while, to talk ... developments or see a musical Tesla coil. Though, really, I should study for my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... a more authentic state (even if i cringe reading it now).  i remembered this draft's existence when i found myself writing a similar

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

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  thing. I think it's worth it for the read! Overall this class has been a ... Course 4, all you need to do is find a supervisor for your study, and then ... This past June, we wrote Axes of Confusion, a post about our struggle

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  inform you” (or perhaps the demoralizing “wait a few months for an actual ... particularly struggle-ridden afternoon with a class intended for students with a ... applications in September of my senior year after I’d gone to Cambridge for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• 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…

  

  visiting my mom's class (she's a fifth-grade teacher in the district) for ... here is a million dollars to start with. Remember to come back for more ... I haven't really done much exciting this break -- I haven't taken a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... receive credit for a class by taking the final for that subject. Scores for ... fair and a common reason for taking an ASE. Go for it if you have a lot

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  seven times in this calendar year, and, also, spoilers for a future blog ... quick search later, we found a website selling custom fortune cookies for ... nice, so I wondered if we could apply for a De Florez fund grant for this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn ... asleep for the first time. I wrote: So apparently in daytime I feel a ... plans for the next scenes in the novel I was writing. Every few pages is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  out of things to talk about and have to cast about for a forced small ... "exercise once a semester" but that's just setting myself up for ... Tube. Or when I have a midterm to study for, but then somehow my laptop

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  catching up lol. I’ve been intimated by hackathons for a while now, and going ... will share The Gift I’ve had on replay for a couple of weeks: Bigger by ... Coming back to campus has been unsettling for many reasons. My

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  shirts so keep a lookout for them. A great place to find a parent to talk ... dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the perfect choice for ... encourage them “do their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be, too A conversation with LIVE by Po-Shen Loh

  

  those where a majority of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch ... -Shen Loh, on expanding access to rigorous STEM learning for students in rural ... how much our missions overlap. So this is a joint blog post between LIVE

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • August 3, 2026
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  for my two midterms. I also ordered a pink Among Us pinata on Amazon for ... for the oven to get ready was a bit boring. I commented on her cool key ... ), some red and black balloons, a large flat cardboard box that once held a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  On the morning of the second day of classes, I got a newsletter email from CAST with a video that featured past cross-disciplinary classes. It tanked my mood for the day. These classes were exactly aligned with my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  scale. There was a separate scale for each room because we had unequal ... boundary (almost an A! or more likely for me: almost a B!), the score on the ... A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  recommend until freshman 15 hits). I entered a lottery for a Picasso painting ... I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... . The Department is committed to a concern for human values and for finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014