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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... just woken up when my phone buzzed. It was an [annotation note="I get emails from Harvard because I signed up for a library card, which I guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  some very ambitious middle schoolers that came up to us. Three years ago ... aspects of it. We did end up playing some technically challenging songs by ... up living in his room : 0 ). And because by the end of ninth grade we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  above the Museum. I got a message saying I would need to pick up a key. When I came by to pick up the key the person in charge was flustered and ... showed up to office hours that week. *** High school was a magical time. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  .5 miles and 4000ft elevation change). The next weekend, I drove up to New Hampshire with friends to climb up a mountain ridge with some beautiful views ... ="78902" /] These trips took up a lot (if not all) of my weekends, and so on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan ... keep my head up and be realistic. how bad could things possibly get? cj ... woke up in the morning. dan: you know, most people who were sixteen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  alarm.  11:30 — I slowly get up while cursing at the world. This term ... friends that have also just woken up.  12:30 — I try to watch the physics lecture recording from today, but I give up halfway when I realize I don

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  .   feels like it snuck up on me like — ha! — got you   ... this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven ... spend time with friends instead of sinking into solitude. building up a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  concord market is finally here!!!!! feasting at MIT's on-campus grocery store

  

  into a boarded up, blank wall of plaster. It was sad, but the heartbreak ... choose from, but we all ended up grabbing some lunch as well as some ... went up to the register, and we got to take an extra-special VIP picture

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  quantum tunneling) or just straight-up teleportation. You know, the cool ... mechanics is just a very elaborate inside joke that physicists made up a ... at point B sometimes”? Truly statements dreamed up by the utterly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  [annotation note="21G.S55: Japanese V"]class.[/annotation] I woke up early that ... characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  whirlwind but so satisfying. Teaming up with folks from Rice, Yale, USC ... ="attachment_101809" align="alignright" width="190"] We got up at about 5 am to drive to ... from. Growing up on a farm in rural Wyoming, college felt like a distant

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  's easy to lose track of time with pretty murals. I promise I end up walking

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  , the cloud forecast was looking gloomy all month and up to the morning of ... in the snow during the eclipse leading up to totality, squinting up at ... 't want help. We watched the rest of the lead-up from the car, and then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  for me, regardless of where I ended up. In hindsight this was true, and ... one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up classes I was interested in/ones that fulfilled requirements, I signed up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  participated that year, but Rui and I had just never signed up before. We thought ... morning. We started setting up -- we wanted to work on a Bacon number ... got to a point where, in a moment of despair, I got up and wrote "CODING

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  formulaic.” I’m not sure if the quote that ended up in the article quite ... ended up as “programming that’s closer to the hardware”…) Recently, I ... around you or those you look up to. This is fine to some extent, but I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  way too short // didn’t regret it // caught up with old friends

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  're buliding up a tower of lego bricks, but you only have enough to go up two of the sides, and you can't bring up the middle to be the same height as the rest, and you end up with this weird-looking structure, and in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  direction (up/down/left/right). players choose from a variety of songs; when a ... typical sequence of arrows[/caption] i ended up enjoying ddr a lot more ... the song and my screen would fill up with arrows: [caption id

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... even if i don’t end up becoming friends with the person telling the ... empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023