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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... paper covered in layers of faded pencil marks as I erased and redrew

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to ... . Although it's definitely some form of undiagnosed anxiety or minor mental ... freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  . So I try to turn to the thing that usually does a good job of making me ... covered by soft ice. But if I can get myself out of the house and into the ... the promise of skies with no end, soft ice touched only by the wind, and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time filling out all of those ... question, as if I’d never snapped out of the trance of college apps, and one of the most common ones I noticed was “what are your hobbies?” But

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  baking cozy desserts, love comfy sweaters, and generally love all of the ... during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... exploring Boston more than I did the first few weeks of school

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill them, I am running on the delightful concoction of sleeplessness, instant coffee, and anxiety. Suddenly, the faint siren song of summer beckons me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my life. So, there. I’m a big fan of Saturdays. I often have a PSET due ... lot of time eating brunch in Next dining, and proceed to mess around in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... ) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially ... Illuminations in MIT News where I am quoted telling some of the story of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  Slay the Spire Bundle for Palestinian Aid I'm the kind of person who ... hours. Sometimes I play new games too. I have a huge backlog of games ... to battle. You colonize more and more of the unfamiliar planet you find

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... below, Elizabeth '13 and I were modestly involved at the beginning of that ... proof of concept. I am so impressed by where the CSH team has taken this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  out of place with recent events. I've tried a lot to figure out how to ... exactly pinpoint my feelings, tired of repeating the same old "I don't feel ... internship, like I've been telling people. It's a subgenre of sorts, meant for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  This is the fourth and final installment of our sentimental objects ... usually include a picture of the ceramic mushroom itself in these posts. But ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... ="aligncenter" width="313"] another perk is the incessant stream of emails from record ... version of history. My [annotation note="Though the station is now operating

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  content warning: extended discussion of suicidal thoughts.     i recently listened to the soundtrack of next to normal, this 2008 musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder. one of the more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college [annotation note="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... , apparently, is a lot of much bigger questions. Questions like, “what does it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018