Search

Search Results

• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs ... out the other while walking to class, while eating, while doing chores ... reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  remember the first job I ever wanted to be was an interior designer. I drew lopsided houses in school and haphazardly scribbled drawings to proudly present to my kindergarten teacher, who graciously accepted them with a

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  and part 2 to get up to speed if you haven’t already. We spent most of ... , we met Djuena Tikuna (the indigenous singer who was to perform with us ... finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  to fly home the day after my last final instead of waiting just one ... thought back to last winter. Around this time last year, I was writing about how I was doing fun things to keep my mind off of finals and having

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

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

  Exam Cram a comic in which my friend tries to save me from chem

  

  Bonus: 3.091 (Solid-State Chemistry) class has a weekly meme contest. Because I'm a try hard and didn't know how to make proper memes, I drew a ... 'm going to spew it here onto the internet.

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  MIT Look For?", but that was really a way to open a conversation into ... very long time. It will be unsurprising to longtime readers, therefore, that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  approximately $40 because those body pillows had to be purchased. Unfortunately ... , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe

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

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  we welcome first-years to the dorms around campus ... a few other committee members, I had to design and run the first and only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  't sure if I was going to make it through my first semester classes, yet ... moment to the moment. Now, I have just about two weeks of classes left. In ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... ’t quite manage to erase. Summer really cannot come soon enough. It is coming

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don ... all, it's more fun to play idle games when you're juggling several of

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

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom: nope. can someone explain to me the passage of time? how to avoid growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ice Bear it’s ice bear

  

  Due to popular demand, here’s a guest post from Ice Bear. If you haven’t heard of Ice Bear before, here’s a good introductory video: https ... enjoys companionship. Ice Bear goes to sleep. Ice Bear will wake up again.

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  . Three times. Listening to musical soundtracks and singing along WAY to ... something. I have NO clue what to do with all of this time. I lack purpose. I ... admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  /Probably Younger Than You.[annotation note="An interesting thing pointed out to me ... theo if he was younger than most of the admissions blog readers. to which ... note="cj: i will also not allow theo to have a stronger annotation game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... two problems. it took us 5 hours to complete three. as i type this up, i ... i've been learning was what would eventually lead me to my downfall. i

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I sometimes don't ever get past the recall part, so I decided to outsource that responsibility to an app called Todoist. A pen and paper could achieve the same

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018