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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  then turned to page 18 where I saw the title "Seats in Renovated 10 ... !? WHY WOULD YOU PICK THIS CHAIR!? I only gave it 2 stars!!! I thought that ... really would have been the best choice and it was unfairly ousted in favor

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  thought that by going to ask for help, I would in a way be "cheating": it ... through all possible scenarios in my head: if it was locked, would I walk away? No. Would I break in? Possibly. Would I knock? Maybe. If it wasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... slowly in my own impotence, but at least I was toasty and well-fed. Here ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  handing in on time, there are no more days where I have to worry about ... days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... career at which I would have got a 100% on this quiz, but after a very limited on campus semester in which I really didn't walk through the 30s at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  If you had asked me what I thought college life would be like back when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  coming to MIT. I was invested in writing things that other people would ... One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... else. I rented out a small room in some building, I learned how to feed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... rhetorical question-response would be: “Isn’t that like asking how I would save

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  I've been cleaning up my collection of drawings in Procreate, and I ... suggestions for MIT merch" Date: March/April 2024 Premise: I saw a notebook in ... ) on the cover. In my dismay, I decided to make a sequel to my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Withdrawal Symptoms I miss camp :(

  

  that I would soon have a six-year-old in my arms, crying about how hard ... so hard that I would lie awake in my bed at 1 a.m. the night camp ended ... Kesem 2010 is over and I'm back in the Real World - which sadly doesn

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  percentages. But for the time being.. This Semester, I... ...participated in an ... . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  dropping all classes where it was clear I would get a B or lower. How did I ... in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I ... official term.  In the fall of senior year, I got my first D in a mostly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm. Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  work through the problem, and I would be left in the dark in terms of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man ... classes, I tried really hard to keep this in mind. But the pressure to take

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  've learned anything that I could share with you that would help you relax. But ... MIT in a designated space marked off w/electrical tape. Then I rigged up ... from school, I can see the SIZE of the envelope! It's still dark here in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  fortunate to be able to do everything I want to do. tick Would someone please acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like ... get in? tick I’m just going to shut up, put my nose to the grindstone

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... had seen so many other people do. I don't know if this is common in other dorms, but I suspect it's so popular in EC because of room size, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  physical classes. now, i'm living in a house with some friends, taking ... things down when i've had enough. this tuesday, every person in my house ... 'm not running from activity to class to activity anymore—i'm just in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  the many lol"]many things i would change,[/annotation]i think i generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... and not changed my perspective. I am an angry crier. In high school

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

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  them just to see what happens, but not in a dangerous way." Really, I ... easier (shoot, three more days!). Anyhoo, I'm going to be covered in fur in, uh, oh snap, five hours, so I think I'm just going to wash some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007