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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... , and in that light I think the externship was a very worthwhile ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  conversation format as in exile but is a lot more murky in that I really can ... a story and I think it is really cool [annotation note="in today ... I've never been a natural All I do is try, try, try I'm still on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  Incredibles 2 now, and a lot of the stuff that I had fun doing on Avatar (I did ... “hey can we do this?” I feel like Pixar is just a really great place to ... story. I think that’s the comfortability of working in these movies for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  overstatement. But, I do know that, that December, I began to feel a lot more ... , and they did a good job, and I knew in my heart of hearts that I had ... MEng is designed to be a three-semester program, and I'm one term in, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  with a prompt that I wrote, which is in bold. Robo-CJ then completes the ... doing enough to help people. I’m sorry that I’ve been doing a lot, but I ... some money, and I can finally afford to live a life that is more balanced

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... that I like Doctor Who, because he or she gave me a Dalek stuffed toy. I ... , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at ... sulked about it in my mind quite often, which I do not usually do, because I like to pretend that they are not broken. I wanted to write a blog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable ... things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much better mapping system than a poorly edited PDF. The first map that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  is to continue broadening that range with at least 4 albums/mixtapes a ... I brought together a group of about 50 movies that I watch over and ... the first show I've binge watched in a while and it was absolutely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  craziness that is my google calendar when I'm at MIT, I've returned with a new ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  a bit gray and rainy sometimes. I don’t really mind that, and I do ... I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... ’ve been reflecting a bit about undergrad while keeping in mind that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar ... Cafe. I want to be that cool. Perhaps someday I will be. In the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten ... when I say that I’ve been to a place where so many people bike. I have ... . Traffic is 24/7. I thought that there would be traffic downtime. Nope, there

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I ... the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon—in ... class sounded cool, but i wasn’t that motivated to do it since i knew it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  , which is a large room in my dorm, Burton Conner, so all i have to do to be ... our floor's massive merch order that came sometime in IAP. i bought a ... a new one sucks, but what i find most tragic is the loss of my laptop

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook ... you have a smartphone? Understand that I didn't have a smartphone in ... like the idea of a "journal" -- a book just about what I do or feel every

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  overcommitment i am now a build lead. this means i'm one of the people in ... harder, with no benefits in exchange; the intent is that you just get ... , i now take one and a half tablets. i discovered that after breaking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  , thinking that maybe i'd be happier in this one or the other. melissa in a ... phases of my life. a while back, i was waiting in atlas to get my ID card ... is that a big part of adulthood is figuring it out as you go. you

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  it because I was running 3 miles on a treadmill in the Burton ... , MIT now gets Comedy Central! Do you know what that means? I can watch ... wonder what that means. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007