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• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  the people i've seen in real life i couldn't really get too close to. so ... 's because i felt that i've been left alone, out in the harsh world, to fend ... had me placing my trust in someone, only to have it broken in some way

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  , which I'll get to in a moment. Classic CYOA books have a branching ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... until dinner. The events in the game are pretty faithful to what I did on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded ... the one that was chosen. In sending that design to the class of 2012, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  planned to double in Course 20 and[annotation note="Science, Technology, and ... essentially went in a giant loop back to Course 20 :^) If you know me ... difficult considering I'm not entirely set on what I'd like to concentrate in

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  third UROPs, offers were made to me unexpectedly in casual conversations ... in lab. The most exciting thing that happened to me is when my work got ... throughout the year. There are advantages and disadvantages to working in a big

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  chemically and lyrically acceptable to say 'get your H on' or 'get your benzene ... around You'll end up getting kicked outta Benzene town... Take it to the ... to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep ... first world problems, and then getting someone who works at Media Lab to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  the best decisions I've made in my life. Also - we're getting a new ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me ... to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... -cut Pete '01, who lived in New House. According to him, they were nice people ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  ’t complete one cycle without getting distracted in between. Well, there was ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a ... ? (Carved by Andrew Hoy '10) Do you see what's in here? To no surprise

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  , forestry, and fishing in Japan -> Bean -> Soybean The goal is to go ... generate an A.I. version to replace him after he gets into an [annotation ... to the point that he appeared on a Coca-Cola ad. He got a reference in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo ... —eternal gratitude to those who have believed in me and supported me even when life was ... sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  "]Hosed™[/annotation] to put effort into a blog post, so here’s what you get instead. Me ... protein bar for breakfast, getting to the testing room super early, and ... some drafts I made while trying to piece together the diagram in the post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like ... your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  To all of you who are wondering how in the world you will navigate ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... , existential crises, and everything in-between, I know I can go back to a group

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... convince the freshmen that their hall is a good place to live in. We bought ... Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in ... else does. Not every moment in life needs to be intellectualized, and I have a tendency to overthink everything. The summer I was in Paris, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  , and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... common app so they got the notification. She also got to me really far in ... letters, I can try to address them in the comments below. But my main point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... 't be able to catch up to these kids and as a result, coming in with no ... far behind my classmates and I'll struggle to get good grades (I know

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  dragged me to the also-fairly-delicious Felipe's Taqueria in Harvard Square ... of an Anna's burrito to that of certain Schedule II drugs; in a ... what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011