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• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  down the ladder. This was the first bug I'd seen all semester--my friends ... 's officially Midterms Week™, and I feel like I've barely been keeping my head above the water. -- Last Friday I finished my work for the week and the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  even mean by work? My friend I could not tell you ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... , someday. I set out feeling that a year was not enough, but my mindset

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  . Shoutout to my friends for going out of their way to make this poster ... the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l ... . Nothing significant had changed in my diet, sleep schedule, or lifestyle

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  of advice from experienced friends, googling and learning from mistakes ... tips and tricks. But here go my own: sidenote: i’m not sure if i’m smiling in this picture or squinting because i can’t see through my foggy

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  author of Wait But Why?, eating dinner with my friend, and then ...   Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... semester, and I'm going to explain my classes and how I spent my first week

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... to my smartphone’s autocorrect. It’s not wrong.) Just like literally ... agree. However, for the purposes of this blog and my future ones, I will

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  -down triangle. Alan Guth, father of a theory describing the early universe and my ... sign with black letters: 'Having Abandoned My Search For Truth…I Am Now ... laughed and said "ahh, I see" as though he didn't believe me. Recovering my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  friends. A semester's worth of work culminated in 2 hours of shear amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is ... revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the ... I've done this year really matters for my next steps -- graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  with my friends who were on the meal plan. Overall, it is a pretty solid ... ’re probably thinking, “Cooking? I’ve never cooked a day in my life! I could burn ... , Sabrina?” I’m here to tell you my secret; it’s cooking videos. First, let

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  different than the one my friends went to on a school trip. I learned a lot ... My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and ... I have only spent seven months travelling. Therefore my experience is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  volleyball, reading, or walking around Front Street with my friends. When I ... knit. For example, on the day of my return, they had a hotdog eating ... which fuels my passion for golf. I love playing golf and making

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the ... on sensory overload :)  My parents weren't really excited that I'd gone

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  alive. Now, I'm 19 and at the school of my dreams with friends and a ... in the 8th grade, my first one being a free general admissions concert with All Time Low at The Grove. The moment my hands gripped those

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life in the Fast Lane why do i walk so fast?

  

  clock echoes loudly in my brain. Every day my feet move quickly, and my ... route to my destination. Turn right five feet ahead instead of fifteen ... process that’s running all the time in the back of my head. Part of the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 29, 2025
• 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 ... , telling me how happy all her friends would be when she gave them these “100 ... . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever

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

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

  

  , my friend Kevin Kwok and I got a batch of custom frisbees printed with ... 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

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Welcome to CPW! 'twas the night before cpw...

  

   really tired. This isn't a universal experience—a lot of my friends spent every moment ... Last week, my photo gallery reminded me that roughly one year ago was my CPW! Interspaced between pictures of Boston and campus were other

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 10, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  being top .5% for The Beths, but as my friend put it, “I got a late start ... 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

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  get to redo my first year at MIT. Whether I liked it or not, whether I ... year....] but that's besides the point. I'm entering my senior year-- and it's already beginning to have an (albeit mild) affect on my life. For

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023