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• Blog / Challenges

  Embracing the Penguin Snowboarding Trip ft. Jayden

  

  Living in the northeast sadly comes with two caveats: 1. A winter season that’s on par with the winter they were stressing about in Game of ... forehead has known since you were a child in addition to the freezing weather

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 31, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="the U belongs in labour!!"]spelling that feels slightly off ... boiled alive in 90 deg C) writing the date the ‘wrong way’ (so apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics ... seen in my life). His catch phrase (he would hate me for calling it that ... once it’s frozen, you throw it in a food processor with a bit of lemon

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  -achiever-ism go hand in hand whenever people discuss either of those topics, but ... experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  very limited unsupervised screen time, but I did, and I fell totally in ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs ... . MIT took me in, ragged at the edges, with sharp spots and pieces that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  the five stages of grief: i. denial in which I wake up, horrified, with about twenty minutes left and a blank exam in front of me, and then ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  the Museum of Science in Boston this past Sunday. I love museums, and since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... when you enter the 'blue wing' in the museum[/caption] Right as we went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  weekly. Classes (not including in class time) [annotation note ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past ... of my friends and I rented an apartment in Central Square, Cambridge ... that we call Sekkrit Satan. The premise is the similar in that everyone

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  conner floor went to some random town in Maine for three days. our Airbnb ... ... Vermont — my east campus hall visited Wilmington in early October. it was wonderful—we hiked, walked around the town, and hung out in our super nice

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  -day music festival in Delaware. as an MIT student, this seems unthinkable ... ,[/annotation] indeed............. I decided to go to Firefly back in May. the tickets ... -COVID (lmao), and since I had already planned on going to a festival in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  reviews, and i ended up falling in love with a few of them. then i found out ... time, i've never actually seen an improv show in person, just read about ... had to do a live performance in front of retired cast members. the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have ... 't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  support students living in cook-for-yourself communities. As you'll read ... (Random, East Campus, MacGregor, New House). In these dorms, students have ... -for-yourself communities, including some of the cultural houses in New House and some FSILGs

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

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  pretty diagrams and pictures in the handouts too; this one about plants was ... semester, and the first one I ever participated in. A lot of time I spent playing the game was reading all of the information in the various sheets

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... 've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this ... psetting. I am much more productive, attentive in class, and enjoy my morning

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across ... dorms on campus. If someone likes a different dorm from the one they're in ... I guess there are some things in life you can’t control. For me (and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  figure out what classes I wanted to take. I was registered in 10 different ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of emotions that when released, flew around the room in every which way

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... a few oddball private schools thrown in there. Nothing on the level of ... cringeworthy in the email that caused her to redflag me. She forwarded the email

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017