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• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my ... . i don’t think recruiters are actually emotionally invested in ... ensuring you have no say in your friend’s decisions (i think the stoic

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  though I definitely didn’t need to invest so much time and energy in it, I ... attended orientation/put my luggage in Burton-Conner, the dorm at which I was ... food itself (I admit to eating chocolate-dipped Oreos alone in a corner

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• 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 ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply ... extra hours to apply to that extra internship and that extra job. In high

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... friends in my dorm than a million-dollar view, but I guess I can’t be ... what was to come. Like in this post -- I was both excited and terrified

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average ... to death in other threads, so I won't do so here. (*Match = mission

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard ... schools. MIT is a very good place... I was just in love with it. It has ... think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  los angeles, and i too am in los angeles, and i am working for a game ... because i realized in may that i could actually attend this year, and immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... I’ve taken a 9-unit Drawing class and been in a 6-unit music ensemble ... Multi-Varible Calculus in ESG (my first-year learning community) and I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the ... them. I present to you: A BOBA MACHINE LOOK AT THIS MIRACLE THAT HAS

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "advice you can give me on how to move forward from here." I thanked them ... : to mope in good company. I went over to my friend Sam's dorm and ... 8.06 out of the park." I will never, in my entire life - IN MY ENTIRE

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  six hours left and a lot can happen in six hours, but I'm in a better ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine, glowing from my time spent out in the sun, and then all of a sudden I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  my hall in EC, Beast, who are my best friends that I love greatly and ... in the gear); I found that sticker in the TechX storage room, when me ... I found on the floor in Boston Logan (gotta stay fresh and rock what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  . (What can we say? Kresge gets around.) One of these emails I got in that ... I'm here now! ] There are some times in your MIT career when you ... me a paper bag to breathe in, I take a look around and realize 1) that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... moons embroidered in gold. I love celestial aesthetics for the idea that ... standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  't quite know where to start with this post. In fact, I've rewritten it so ... 's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... essentially everything in that whole "I just need this fucking degree but dear

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat ... home. Although money can help place you in experiences that will enrich

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... up late. Last semester, I found that my most productive hours were in ... saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Waiting… and a more serious note about pre-decisions at the end

  

  journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in ... .) Buy/Make Holiday Presents Practical suggestion! I like making any sort ... matter the outcome, I wrote a thank-you card for someone in my life. It

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  together and “buy” their friend for an impressive sum. (I hope I’m doing a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... stomach cancer, I found out. She was diagnosed with ductal breast cancer in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012