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• 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 / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  are going through content at a completely unheard-of pace. All of my classes only meet twice a week for 1.5 hours, which is new for me since my ... Friday (🎉🎉🎉), but then I have to give my full attention for 1.5 hours

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  ? To be sincere,  I didn't think I'd make it near. My twenty second year some life I've engineered to the good for all my peers. Did you ... 've gotten comfortable just eating my bowls of stew [doing only what's required

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025
• 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 Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  About a year ago, I posted a blog about what I thought would be my ... return as a JC a few months later. And when my offer popped up in my inbox ... way I could spend my summer ceased to exist. In June, I learned how to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• 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 / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  frankly boring, overdone announcement, but a regression to my previous self, a negative evolution. Nonetheless, it is true to my soul, and I found ... about declaring my major. It seems I have learned nothing, as it is today

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026