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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  of music as fun sounds to tickle my brain. sometimes screamy metal best ... [/annotation] of my question. I might as well have asked the group, “do you listen to ... ’ve once described my music taste as all the different flavors of angst

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  experienced a lot of failure in my sophomore year, it’s not a dramatic ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that is required for my major, so I had to retake it. I failed not just one

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  reason behind my decision to come here was the people: the people I'd met ... be a blogger. The blogs were almost solely responsible for my ... -five blogs. Although I can still bring it up in my mind, the MIT that the blogs

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  my favorite part of ancient greek literature is its treatment of self ... of my friends asked me “do you believe in true love?” and my response ... my life consuming media telling me that i was supposed to date

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  to occupy it, one thing is constant: email. During my two years on ... monotony of sending these emails, I changed my email sign-off for almost ... 0 (Normal Sign-offs) Thanks, Best, These are my default email

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content.”- Anonymous Reviewer aka Jeremy in my last post. Some (including my own mom) may ... with this subject at all. If this occurs, then my brain shifts back into

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  !  Here’s my first impressions of those classes: some preconceptions turned ... eat boba with my housemates during the pandemic.[/caption] Liberal arts college fashion! I dressed well for my first day of Harvard classes

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of ... often have trouble wrapping my head around, and it can be very frustrating ... 's written on the board into my notes with a five minute delay from when it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  it way too seriously, but a lot of my friends have recommended it so i ... out okay. i think the real conflict here is that i’ve spent much of my ... help with them; i’ve also spent enough of my life having exactly one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  action movie. I miss wiping away my tears on the Loop lounge sofas and having one of the cats on the floor take notice of my sadness and plop themselves right next to me. It was one of my favorite things, where, after a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... better at being at MIT, I've lost my grip on writing. I used to end a long ... 've been ending my days with 30 min on Netflix. I get ideas for blog posts

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  , I mean.']special significance[/annotation] as the day I began my life ... enormous, too [annotation note='I remember, shortly after I got my job I think, learning from a friend that my high school robotics coach, Neil

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  that MIT has made it that far. Physically, retirement means my body is ... . Logistically, ~15 hours of my week suddenly opened up. Emotionally, I miss it a ... write, a pset, and a research poster to work on, and my thesis work is

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  , too.  (My personal favorite is to hear the chemical engineers and ... pretty indecisive my freshman year because I felt like I had a wide range ... looked at the shelf above my desk and realized realized how much machine

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in ... this frat. But I will say that after coming to MIT, my opinions of ... friends. I remember one of my friends articulating this well, saying one of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  semester. I even downloaded a countdown tracker on my phone, reminding me every time I turned on my phone the number of days until Delivery. It ... finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  , highlighting my accomplishments, challenges I'd overcome, my individuality, and my impressive vocabulary. Being word-limit averse and untrained in the ... with A LOT of anxiety about whether my writing came across as

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  the story. Tickets were a couple thousand dollars. But, my friends and I ... after finishing my purchase and breathing a sigh of relief did I realize ... before they printed out a badge for me that had my first name on it twice

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  each and every day, and my meeting with a Professor Hammond gave me the ... like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... just dream of one day being able to live in my “Heaven on Earth” and 4

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015