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• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  you. Here, I want to try my best to share a few moments in my life that ... my life time. These moments in my life are not extreme in the sense that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  Even as a kid, school never fit right for me. I recall my third ... year was already familiar with my shenanigans, just sighed and said ... about marching to the beat of my own drum or any other idiom. For every

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  part 1: My B. Song: Bright by Echosmith. part 1a: early action A ... Bridge finalist. My friend, was accepted. I was so happy for him, but I was also ... solemnly completing what became a seventeen page application to my local

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... time, the experience really disrupted my self-confidence. My overwhelming ... felt like I was at an academic disadvantage due to my background, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i ... role-reversal, my parents were staunchly against my staying home: they ... people my own age (i believe "age appropriate activities" were the words

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me ... since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... , My first priority was to focus on eating well and to cook most, if not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  — with no final exams. To be fair, instead, all my classes had assignments and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my group's 6.S08 final project   Classwork for all my courses: 6.S08

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  First off, I'd like to thank everyone, especially you, my readers ... the same thing I am and it's both humbled me and empowered me. My post ... inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I remembered: "Moon milk!" You see, it was my first time caving (what? What did

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I ... ever particularly interested in doing so, with the exception of my

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don ... else I love more than lying there digging my nails into my palm trying

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the ... of my Notion because I'm not writing this post to show off how ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  I had expected to adopt MIT terminology into my own vocabulary ... going to my [annotation note="it was a bit of a shock going home for ... extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6.0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with ... with a silent click of a submit button on my 20.330 (Fields, Forces and Flows) final exam. Virtual learning has been rough you guys. My body has

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  ]Chris Peterson '13[/intro] As you can tell from my avatar, I had hair when I ... , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  was 3 years old. I’ve lived in Georgia for practically my whole life ... science. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that my dad was an engineer and my mom was a biochemist. Perhaps it had to do with all that tinkering I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my bookshelf in my personal blog. It's now 2008 and my bookshelf has undergone ... Comics Understanding Comics, one of my books for Toy Design. Nightwork

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Update Stories from the parties today; more stories, and questions answered, tomorrow.

  

  been my first choice for most of high school, but for a brief period of time, another school took its place as my number one, and then the two ... my list of college applications. MIT eventually came back to being my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2007