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• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  would be the third time I've moved in the past year, and to be honest, I ... , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  the seats would be in an obstructed view area, we all looked at each ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to ... Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  was the most difficult and awkward sentence I've typed in a long time. I ... friend". In the interest of furthering the human language, I propose we ... friend^2s and friend^3s were there, so I felt like I wouldn't fit in. Plus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate ... . Who would have thought I'd need to remember how to do things like ... 's one thing I hate in this world, it's physics). So, applicants, gripe

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard ... story. Wow! I also have a friend who wrote a one-act play that was ... acquaintances from MIT who are also writers of various sorts. Before I came to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in ... , I figured beginning to develop good money habits would be in my best ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  reminiscent of the time in high school where i would overcommit myself in my ... all, really. i would fill the empty seconds in my day with audiobooks ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  University. I was thrilled, here would be my first chance to learn in an ... world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would tell her about my plans to traverse

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  again. Definitely in the top three of things I’ve read all semester ... Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... moment when I realized she would not speak, that she would sit there and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel ... . People are being killed. And in two different ways, I feel powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in ... would be the year we had no winter. And for a long time, it looked like I would be right. We in the outdoors club even called off our "Winter Circus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  back in time, I would high five myself, then say "don't wear your big ... , shimmying through little alleyways I would never have thought to enter in ... something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  I know, would have me help her take apart computers, and in our free ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... younger, but I found myself facing more often in college, as I found myself

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  that dream. I would continue the simulation in my mind until I fell ... would lay there in bed, words and thoughts spinning around my head without pause. Often, I would simulate conversations with people I’d had that day

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he ... was past three in the morning and I'd just returned home from Studio 7 ... welcome my first final review in 4.112 (Integrated Architecture Studio). I

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... for tests. 68. I believe in my God. 69. I hate food. 70. I have a ... have a crush. 79. I would love to travel the whole world. 80. I become

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006