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• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  play instead, I also might have started packing my room before 11:30 PM that evening. I don't have to move out of my summer room next Sunday, but I spontaneously decided to come home this week because my beloved high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... Team is like and my thought process in deciding to join. So without

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going to be a junior next fall. My schedule for next fall will not have any A.P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  with! Here's how they went. Contour My team and I held several events to ... my work is needed to get it done, and that I can depend on everyone to ... projects for a half hour or so. Then my teammate had class, leaving me alone

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... thesis and antithesis (eg. a character grows or their world changes). my ... vacuous   ii. my high school world history class was a two

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags ... part, the depth of my knowledge. It was a school where people probably ... submitting my application at 11:59pm EST and getting a decision felt pretty

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  of classes I gave in my last post, we're left with the question: what am I doing with my spare time? Sleeping? No, that's what I ... ? were met with uncomfortable stares and a long, awkward silence on my end

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... waste, I'm going to write this blog post as captions on photos. My first ... . It changed wholesale my image of China. I had always thought of China

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... synthetic textile like polyester, while my mom was convinced that “of course

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  in school, but not long enough that my body has totally disconnected ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... pursuing my interests? Learning new things? I saw wallowing as my 'revealed

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  among MIT Bloggers. I showed my brother and he said “Well now you have to ... .    Now it’s my turn to inspire you with our random music tastes ... Abby 2018 In 2021, my top song was The Monster Mash, and I listened to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  might make it a series). One of my biggest goals this semester was to ... on Procreate on my iPad! I wish I had more time and energy to draw, but ... made this as a semi self portrait after dying my hair orange! the tram

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  ! UROP I'm continuing my Spring [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... enjoy my project, but the people I've met there so far have been very ... ="aligncenter" width="500"] my project so far is just code, so i don't have any pretty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  patterns, midterm season, is also upon us. But only one of my classes this semester has midterms or even just tests of any kind. My single midterm came and went, an insignificant blip in my days of apple cider and flannel

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

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  . sitting on my mcat books but specifically only the one I was currently using ... them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... against my arm specifically so I can’t type but most importantly, 5

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  expecting a lecture-based class, where I could sit with my friends and hear ... undergrads to judge. We met so many alumns. My interviewee was a total badass ... major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... grand adventure. The pieces of my life have, more or less, fallen into

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  also went to the Bo Burnham-Jonny Sun event I blogged about my freshman ... why in particular, but for a while I've been questioning my place at MIT and my purpose in what I'm doing and where I want to go and where I see

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... my internal headspace, but when i’m in a conversation the other person

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so ... [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021