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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  , to me, existed as a series of songs someone had compiled in a You ... —urged to attend by other people on my hall involved in the production ... college students to tell a story so vividly and intensely? It was about more

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  another one tomorrow morning. Since I'd actually like to write something other than "AGH MONKEYS WHY DO I FAIL AT LIFE," stories about what I ... term will just have to wait. It's not like I'm leaving you out in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to ... /criticize anyone for what they've done. Instead, I'm going to give you the facts, as

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

    6.006(6.1210): Introduction to Algorithms  21W.771: Advanced Poetry ... the class I liked the least but mostly because I wanted to take all of ... this semester, so I have to take the seminar"]Undergraduate Teaching

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an outsider, less of a string of expectations you fail to meet, less ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  fails to feel at least slightly terrifying for reasons I'm still trying to ... to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  public service program. I failed, and almost decided to give up. My ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... -important fail-if-you-miss-it concert band rehearsal that night. Luckily, her dad ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... research. the third one is fulfilling obligations. they all contribute to my ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  instant mood booster. My podmate asked if I wanted to attend our 18 ... to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got

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

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to-non-MIT-people-a-lot so that when YOU are asked all these things, you can just link them to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It ... . It’s pretty hot in here, but I’m pretty used to it. There are a few ... doorway. Brenda is bubbly and sweet and used to live on this floor and is

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  the thought that by being forced to write or fail, we would inevitably ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It’s easy to lose track of how much time has passed when you have so many

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... persistence from stubbornness. He said: "whether you succeed or fail." Umm

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

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can't make my lab printer ... with photos of the various dorms distributed to incoming freshmen during ... to note that only some dorms, namely the East Campus (Bexley, Random

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  -like qualities”. While a spork fails to be both a fork (the tines are too short) or ... apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some ... – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and the hotel failed to serve bagels in the morning. I did a campus tour ... Books. On the semi-bright side, I had signed up for an overnight visit to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... , he rubbed his sleepy eyes and began to stand up. "Where's your concert

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris' post, but then it stopped being brief, so I decided to post it here ... , whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately ... asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... !" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006