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• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  /or procrastinating. Just a few days ago, I beat my all-time record for cutting it close ... ’m efficient at my work, I can achieve quite a bit if I manage my time well. That ... from 0%"]going to bed with 20% of my planned work done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  outside my house. The river in Tucson is dry, always has been, but it goes ... . I imagine my head contained a lot of static. If this were a lifestyle ... 2="84717" image3="84696" /] Catalina State Park (ft my mother) I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... . That’s been something eating away at me lately whenever I think about my ... 't major in something I had prior knowledge in, compared to my pitiful

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  metaphor will come through but this is the set up. When I was at my most ... . When I brought this up with my friend, he said (understandably) "what the ... dimensional. So when I was at my most existential, I worried that there might be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR CPW!!!! Class of '26, we cannot wait to meet you!!! I know how excited I was for my CPW, so I can only ... CPWs in my freshman and sophomore years, but instead I was running weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  sometime between smashing fruits with baseball bats and watching my friends dye their hair. It sounded up my alley; I love writing, and this would ... classrooms around campus. She asked for my ideas. Something deep? I suggested

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I was going through a major crisis – by which I mean a crisis about my ... of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe ... eventually my advisor sits me down and says, “Amber, you have not completed sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  plants. I'm not exactly sure when; it might have been after my former ... could see from my bedroom while I read applications. After he moved out ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve found that so much of my learning has come outside of classes, including ... from a few years back: Recently my boss left for another job, and I ... of the sales team. Suddenly, my work load doubled. My list of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  If you've read any of my other posts, you probably know how much I care about my dorm and floor communities. I've talked about my ... formative in establishing my interest in preserving student culture across MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  'll usually respond, in my experience, no matter how famous"]acclaimed author and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the ... started. Now, it feels more like I'm in a sprint, going through my classes

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should ... receiving end of chore assignments. Girlwise by Julia Devillers was my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  are no longer relevant. Last spring, one such email caught my eye with ... the prompts and the titles of my stories: 9/10 – Includes words (1pg ... my free time. I can’t thank Marjorie enough for how kindly she guided

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations? Hi! My name ... just took The Biggest Exam of My Life Part 2 of 4 (9 hours long!), and ... geographically close to each other) with my girlfriend Kathy '10 (link to an old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  my friend's room at Random Hall reading that fateful email from Ben ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of ... is really not bad at all), just over a quarter done with my third year

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  pm and bedtime: 1. Baking a cake for my friend Sam's birthday 2. Starting and finishing a pre-lab for my first graded Junior Lab project ... my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012