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• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  , but to date, no one has painted over any of my paint jobs, so I have officially left my mark on 4 different rooms on Conner 2. Freshman year, April (my roommate) and I painted our room a very pretty blue. A few months

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . One night my first semester here, I was struggling with an 18.02 problem. My roommate couldn't figure it out either, so I decided to ask Melis ... person -- much to my surprise, she asked if I wanted to meet her in person

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... everything else, most of my classmates aren't too excited about the prospect of ... spring. True story--last semester my fellow UROP Adam '07 produced a paper

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  my ability to be interesting, to do interesting things at this ... health aaaaa aaaaaa trap me in a zero-sum game, as if my disinclination for ... , that I'm just told these things and they echo back in my thoughts as an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  him on my water bottle that travels with me everywhere I go. Today is ...   I just want to see as much as possible, whenever  My jam ... didn’t know how to become WIDE either.  Heck, I didn’t even know my way

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  way more time in my dorm than usual. Sean Collier's memorial service was ... student organizers my cellphone number, and they told me to expect a meat ... charcoal, but not nearly enough. My vice president and I made a 11:30pm run

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... , I feel fairly confident in my declaration of Brain and Cognitive ... take as electives no matter what my major turns out to be. I figured this

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  , right?) Item the first: The Journal of Negative Results. My advisor and 9.12 professor Carlos Lois unwittingly helped me discover my ultimate ... joking. I am not. I immediately decided that my life's goal (previously

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  in my resume, and I haven't thought as far ahead as next week, let ... excited. =P In more personal news, my acting class is finally starting to ... super cool. Not only that, but I have to make another appointment with my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  everything when I leave my nice dark cozy apartment at 6:45 AM. At least I did ... , I'll talk about what my lab studies generally, and hope you don't notice that there aren't any shiny jpegs to go along with my talk. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... out loud to my parents, they'd say "I think we've done a pretty good job ... assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  little irritated that my Spotify Wrapped was more a loose sampling than an overall snapshot of my listening habits. Then I remembered that 2018 was the ... replacing my Spotify Time with Podcast Time. But where is Janelle Monae's Pynk

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... agenda, I polled my dorm for orange recommendations—results here. Ever

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... mentoring for them for most of my time at mit and have really loved it

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024