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• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  "]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington ... in this image: [caption id="attachment_103880" align ... that started with 0 on the x-axis and went in the counterclockwise

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align ... school, I danced at home for fun, twirling through my kitchen in socks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  't hold any of these quizzes to have any merit or influence in my life, but ... The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, a botanical garden in Sweden. It's very ... journaling as much as I've wanted, and I've slowly transitioned from writing in

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

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... , but I figured in an effort of maintaining my brand of transparency I ... break, I went to visit my family on Big Island in Hawai'i. I took this as

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... : "where are you right now?" me: "i'm in the green building! what's up ... that in allston and almost threw up because of the smog. but!!! there

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live ... entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started ... guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog ... in high school, I'd pictured myself on a pretty green campus with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... voices in sci-fi/fantasy, and the importance of story. On good weeks you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes ... past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Line in Porter Square. It was a snowy night. The grimy piles of snow

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  vital part in my communication toolbox. I also draw and [annotation note ... with free drawing software"]"Photoshop"[/annotation] a lot in my free time, skills that come in handy when it comes to hand-crafted memes

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!

  

  will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you ... involved putting seven shelves’ worth of class supplies in boxes and moving ... organized and labeled and it’s actually really nice. Classes began in full

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  In a very institvtional gesture of welcome, each incoming MIT student ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston" when they ask. Maybe because you don't want to rub it in peoples' faces

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... /ACT like starting in 8th grade. If we want to replicate that experience for the GRE, we would've had to start studying in senior year of high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is ... [/annotation]. [Monday 5/20] Started this blog post!I ate lunch at Chipotle in Kendall ... friend. Protip: storage facilities in Boston/Cambridge get lots of business

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or ... , in a different place, and at a different age. As a result, he would, at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Places to Sit at MIT and study

  

  goal. Never fear, I'm taking another semester in the fall to finish my studies and to continue sitting in places. The two goals are related ... opportunity to continue learning what MIT has to teach me. In the meantime

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2017