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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  ? It’s kind of like that. Loneliness is that hollow when it moves up into ... future, but in many ways you make up mine. That probably didn’t make sense.  Maybe, this is a better way to explain it: I am still trying to live up to

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  imprisoned himself in building 4 to study for physics, I holed myself up in our ... a class so I ended up doing the same thing for all the other classes I ... brainwashed by "big chem" into believing the whole thing isn't made up. 3

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  up machine, a cable station, various leg and arm machines, and a good ... : The gym is set up with free weights, a weight machine, a treadmill, and ... caught up with problem sets or projects or something, I found myself

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  evaluations; I personally prefer to look subject evaluations up through Firehose ... -ish lecture classes, you can show up to the first day of class even if you ... Ask yourself: when is your earliest class? Do you think you can wake up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  carnage. He would eventually grow up to be a harbinger of peace and ... the show and pick from that list. I ended up with the thirteen episodes ... , Toph, and even Momo.    Appa’s Lost Days: This one is just straight-up

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  upwards slope, and I can see the experiences I’ve racked up, the projects ... imposter, not in the way that plagues so many students here. Chalk it up to ... letter, and I’d rather be up front and self-inflict the blow before you do

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for ... stellar explosions, staying up night after night to collect data before the ... tasks, and up to you on what timescale you will do these tasks, and how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  largely homogenous suburban neighborhood where I grew up to a playground for incredibly excited people who are always up for doing something cool, whether ... , microaggressions, gentrification. Nothing is made up--just like the color blue has

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  : finishing up my last year of MIT, stuck in a windowless fluid mechanics ... it. I only sleep standing up.” Hagrid grinned; his eye held a twinkle ... up each day. Unplanned, indefinite, opening books to read a random page

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  or wiggles it. Then the person notices the hand and arm, and tenses up ... . Tense it, relax it. Move up the leg to the knees. Tense them, relax them ... this helps! And I mixed up index finger with ring finger haha oh well

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  38 I wanted to take this fall, and gave up. I had room for four. This ... : Anna, this is Josh Winn. Josh Winn looked up from his desk. Me: Hi, nice ... stress that just because astronomy ended up being the right decision for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  that I would end up buried in my work, and fail to socialize with people ... sometimes I fail to follow up on this, especially when times are hard, but I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  , unedited, below. Anon Blogger Being gay and growing up in my conservative household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... feeling to have. I had no idea how much room my shame was taking up until I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  and it was awful), and finishing up the Muti Water Project in Ethiopia ... a bar? It is called the Muddy Charles Pub, and I had to look that up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  thought that the shoving students are up to six years younger. I have to ... or observe here. I know the practices and customs. I wake up to see my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  definitely opened up a brand new skillset for me to flounder in and ultimately ... bookmarking the tab (try to keep switching it up for fun) should work fine. If

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  those who last until morning. St John's college being all glammed up ... and Europe. I even met up with a friend whom I knew from an

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Am I Smart Enough for MIT? On second thought...don't answer that.

  

  . But now I'm worried that I won't be able to catch up to these kids and ... much leaves a lot of that at the door (unless it comes up specifically

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  we hit up some other people and now it's happening. I am much more

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  Approximately two weeks ago in Building 14 (the one between Building 2 and just before Hayden Library for those familiar), a hack was put up celebrating the brilliant and diverse faculty, professors, and staff

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023