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• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... high school, getting into MIT, moving to campus, etc. I haven't gotten ... because I like taking my time to get out of bed. I've moved floors so I stop

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  other engineer in the country, even compared to other engineers from the ... , the unbreakable backbone I will need to continue in this field is no ... privileges is a sense of duty, a mandate to do good in the world, one which I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people ... stop wanting to. Not ‘some way to get rid of him’ - but a way to stop ... / responsibility / control / attachment that i think is too difficult to navigate in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... weather started to get colder and people started to get hosed and burnt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... Theater Guild; but after all the math and science I get saturated with in my academic life, it's mind-blowingly refreshing to have something in my

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... Waking up to a Cinco de Mayo band playing on Memorial Drive after getting ... holidays Getting a zillion mysterious bruises in the process of attending a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... joints. Then, we had to hook up the joints to a user interface to get them ... -Photorealistic Rendering or NPR is a technique in computer graphics used to render 3D models

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  that. Also, my little sister just got permission to get her first tattoo in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... to main memory (system 1). a work in progress: almost finished ... rationality is some people's holy grail. emotions get in the way of reason but

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  engaging in a behavior to get an external reward or to avoid punishment, and ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... :) Week 1: Introduction There wasn't much in this section, to be honest. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the ... did get me into the learning zone. I didn't expect that the audience to ... in NYC). Thanks to Burchard, I didn't fumble with the knives and forks!

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... 't even run on the weekends, so I couldn't get to work if I tried. "Work ... and in bed - Newsflash: I have time to read! I rarely read for fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... how to work in schools across America to change how children learn. I applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... didn't have the maturity to see these changes in others; the MIT I first ... before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... with my mom. I hadn’t been back to China in six years, so it was really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  , jokingly referring this period as my "nice era" to my friends. In this new ... , really just light up a room." To which I quickly replied, "Oh, I'm just in ... Year's resolution to be kinder, before scoffing a bit in disbelief. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  much more fulfilling, than responding in kind. Sometimes it's better to ... Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your ... the fame or fortune to allow them them get a job, situation, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in ... my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... huge fan of either, but then CAKE came! We were able to get amazingly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  you should try not to get too trapped in the bubble, so that you can ... . Perhaps just my voice isn't enough to get the message across. So I have here ... .” -Antonio Moreno “Let’s get rid of the stigma that you need to toughen up and deal

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015