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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... time) to respond with "Stick it to the Man" when people asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. I reached for the right words to validate the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester ... that it takes me a couple tries to even get in the right mindset to make ... to delve into some of the things I've been feeling this year about

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... clear. Also, comics are fun to play around with, even though I have very

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth ... measures and symbols telling you what key you're supposed to be soloing in. It's your chance to play whatever you want! Maybe this sounds

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  a tree. in my freshman year, i aimed to get my [annotation note="general institute requirements, classes we have to take to graduate. in this case, i am referring to the 6 stem classes that must be taken (or tested out of

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  Thinking of living off campus? Maybe not, maybe you just want to read ... 't apply to you just yet anyway, since all freshman are required to live on ... just curious to see what it's like. And lucky for you, I've got the scoop

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  prefrosh can choose where they want to live instead of being randomly placed ... community. Most of all, I love that dorm culture enables students to find homes they cherish so much that they fight fiercely to protect them

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  Media Lab, help build some software to make people’s lives better, and ... definitely still want to help people, but I’m not finding it all quite as simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in Amherst or to see my girlfriend in Northampton. At the time, it seemed like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... made this year, including but not limited to textiles, paintings, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate Program (CUP). Two weeks ago, MIT faculty passed a motion to change ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  's very easy to get caught up in the daily metronome of life, especially when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to class, I talk to my friends, I do work, I head home, I sleep. Next day

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  was awkward, always too busy reading to pay attention to others, and ... middle school. By high school, I had grown used to being treated differently, and I no longer hated it as much, because, to be frank— Imagine a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  flyer I’d taken at the door, wanting to remember every sentence I heard ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented students thinking of applying to MIT, his response was quick. “Do it,” he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  will be some light spoilers, so if you want to read the series, now ... MIT. People told me that it was going to be hard, that there would be too many things to do and that I had to live with not doing them all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  I: Exposition. To be able to tell this story in full, we must start ... teaching abroad"]IAP,[/annotation]when an email is sent to our dorm mailing ... ="Campus Preview Weekend, during which we welcome prefrosh to MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  leaning in on choosing lives

  

  half an hour, eating my lunch, and the wind is getting to me. I could choose to get up and move to a different bench 20 feet away, one that is in the sun rather than the shade. But then I wouldn’t be able to type as

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • April 20, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Enjoy Life Farewells and New Beginnings

  

  bioengineer. I am grateful to have had wonderful mentors and scientists and ... summer, I’ve been thinking about what to do for my last blog post. I’d planned to doodle something about "Ithaka" by Constantine Cavafy. It’s one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at the time, but I knew that I wanted to find down-to-earth, genuine people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing I don’t have time for hosed into my core

  

  swallowed by my sofa, I actually left my room (from off campus) to study on ... checked them and learned from my mistakes. I didn’t try to listen to music, which regrettably distracts me from being able to process what I’m reading

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 25, 2018