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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But ... heard in my life. [caption id="attachment_103438" align="aligncenter" width="300"] actual footage of me[/caption] I’ve been dancing my whole

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the ... legit to me, although i might just be too generous with my judgment. he ... walked into my recitation room and Jett, the TA who teaches recitation

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  school. Monday My team had our Concept Presentation for 2.76, Global ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out ... Transportation to my soccer teammate’s high school econ teacher."]user research

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  with the various music and arts clubs around campus before my first day ... part of myself that has always been a defining part of my life. I was ... “syllabus week” thing, but in hindsight i should not have taken my lack of

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  my inner engineer craved most – numbers. Without objective ... collected five different samples to test: My 3.020 (thermodynamics of materials) psets from this semester. My 6.1220 (design and analysis of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my ... earplugs underneath my hair, and it occurs to me that being able to casually make my environment work for me was not something I had the power to do

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  little free library while I was living in my van. I wrote a poem here and ... wouldn’t have discovered on my own, from [annotation note="a poem based off ... found that working within a form often allowed me to flex my creativity

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  spring of my high school senior year, I decided that I was done with school ... living at home during quarantine to when I went to live alone abroad for my ... lost my habit of cooking regularly, despite living without a meal plan

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... can kind of dredge up some memory of what my dad might’ve called this

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night-- It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ... of my eyelids, as if I can puzzle out reactions in my [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m going to share my experience with applying early, and for anyone applying ... and was ready to show them to someone to get some feedback. My older ... just listed things I liked to do/did for my community. It was incredibly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... post is from a never-published draft about from my freshman fall 2014 ... my plans are. It’s a fascinating revelation. Senior year of high school

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions ... Bunnies for my birthday (credit to the wonderful Kristen Y. '19 and Jamie C ... year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  perfect track record of silencing my phone in class. Then, one day, sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a discussion—oh the shame! Turns out, the classroom was so close to my room that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  studying rather than going to whatever social thing my friends were doing ... always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a number of reasons I feel like my ability to balance work/school with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  enjoy it as well! ________________________ Hi, guys! My name is Haley ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I ... working in a haze trying to make sure I was completely caught up in my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  . My sleep schedule has been all over the place lately after staying relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... past cause of what my peer in-groups did, you know?) is what I mean. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014