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  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  I worked in Bristol Robotics this summer through MISTI, MIT’s travel ... and also play tourist on the weekend in another country, but even the ... my group, got the coolest gig of walking around in a space suit with a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... you've got the time.) What did prefrosh Laura think she'd major in ... Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... on everything from my interest in the subject, the pace of the lecture ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... these questions rooted in our societal issues with the cult of youth blah ... health aaaaa aaaaaa trap me in a zero-sum game, as if my disinclination for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  is somewhat... lacking in substance (what is Spotify Wrapped if I can ... further ado... In 2024, the MIT Admissions bloggers listened to 686 ... . For reference, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Congratulations to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping ... emojis in the [annotation note='Campus Preview Weekend, but online during

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  consumer. No thoughts, just a constant stream of words going in one ear and ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact ... audiobooks, including most popular new releases FREE OF CHARGE! In all

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  in the system... [carousel image1="95716" image2="95715" image3 ... .) “What was Course VI originally known as at MIT?” We’re now in the realm of ... you know it used to be Metallurgy back in 1873? But even that wasn’t its

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  in the two weeks after classes ended. I got distracted as little as ... would have been unproductive. In hindsight though, maybe I could have ... ="1000"] my eyes needed to pee and there was someone in the bathroom

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  idk man it was a strange day. haven't written horror in a sec. also ... morning pale and grey. There are jobs that need doing in the basement by the ... flaws in the designs. Someone else, perhaps as sleepless as yourself

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  when i attended cpw as a senior in high school, my favorite events ... perform for around ten minutes each in high school i watched the ohms sing ... i’d ever heard, and the chords in the climax of permanent some three

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  alone use them in future experiments? Which hardness scale do these ... burning in your mind right now – what exactly is hardness? Merriam ... scratched” [1]. In simpler terms, harder materials are more difficult to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have ... responsibilities and just sit for a couple of days. This week has exploded in my ... hottest fucking mess in existence right now. I've spent a lot of time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... m. After moving on campus recently and seeing people in 3D, I'm hoping ... joined clubs, went to events, partook in many things. But the activation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  proximal development, in the sense that learning is best achieved when things are not a breeze, but not totally impossible; in particular, they are doable with some help.']an acceptable level of struggle.[/annotation]In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid the perceived finality of writing. 1. Being hosed I was trapped in a ... made me prioritize my obligations in a messy and unhealthy way. I was

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  platform, Chinese proceeds exactly in the same way as it did when it was in-person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom ... ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  late, but I thought I should wait until my schedule was FINALLY set in ... -recorded) the two classes I was taking in January. The [annotation note ... taking it online in the middle of the woods on two hours of sleep (yes. I

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  sleeping bag into the little bag I had carried it in. Each precious second it ... desk in the Student Center before they leave. If I had gone to check out ... was. In my panic, I had forgotten to ask. I slowed to a walk and pulled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , authentic, and enjoyable content in the next couple years as bloggers past and ... more people to stroll in, one of the counselors told “the one about the ... staple of the week. And when everyone came in after the whale joke ended

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017