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• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  doesn’t just influence how i consume art; it also shapes how i create art ... music as the development of a few themes won’t be able to interpret ... rewarding if the company hadn’t gone viral, to which he immediately replied

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  perpetual state of spatial lostness. In his words, “location just isn’t ... to introduce this, so I won’t mince words - my mental health was ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  more of a conversation than an interview, so don’t stress out too much ... good idea to check your spam inbox to ensure it didn’t end up there by ... . What to expect Every interview will be different because there isn’t a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  towers aren’t capable of popping all the bloons in one round, they ... without ever having to take your eyes off the music whereas, if you didn’t ... practice it turns out a bit of practice wasn’t enough to get me back to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  sometimes it feels like I didn't. I moved to Minnesota the moment elementary ... ; . . .   One year later, I was back, but this time I wasn't the only one ... countertops, switching the curtains... I returned to a house that wasn't a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  research. Some of it provided clarity for what I didn’t want to do—my destiny ... . I didn’t go to career fairs or recruiting sessions; I didn’t upload my ... engineer, you’re often working on one piece of the codebase and don’t have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  head: "ah. i haven't blogged in a while, have i?" a gust of wind nearly ... limited, and we didn't want to lose our first priority because we likely wouldn't get into the dorm we wanted otherwise. it sucks. we all felt so

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  easier. The game doesn't shame you or make you feel bad for using Assist Mode. It doesn't drop mechanics or skip bosses or whatever. You can turn ... main story. I didn't feel like I was doing something wrong, and no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  important to this virtual semester. Now, this isn’t to say that smaller ... so helpful and friendly. I don’t like hyperboles, but it’s everything I ... answers.[/annotation] I can ask the questions that I wouldn’t have asked in

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  wasn’t exceptionally stressful; while of course there’s the pressure of ... 's also nice because I get to do things that I wouldn’t have time for ... that’s not what I want. I don’t feel completely overwhelmed. People

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I ... and aren’t swamped with their own final projects to help you. Filming THE NEXT OBVIOUS STEP IS TO START FILMING. YOU CAN’T HAVE A MOVIE

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  inexhaustible variety of life). Floating in Nostalgia   I honestly can’t ... cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I ... . Disappointment was the inevitable. Forget about qualifying for ISEF, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  are wondering about this haven’t committed yet –– apologies for ... me. I didn’t even know what school I wanted to go to, let alone what I ... and develop those passions. You don’t have to keep doing what you were

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  student halfway through college, I still haven’t figured out most things ... enough things around campus. But at the same time, I didn’t feel inspired ... times where things don’t feel like they’re falling into place and you need

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  .900 klæs lɛktʃɚz.) Hi! Normal English here. If you can't read the above ... goes between your teeth. these symbols are the first ones that don't look ... teeth. [t] tap - unvoiced [d] door - voiced [s] sail - unvoiced [z] zebra

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  needed them: The Care and Keeping of You before I reached puberty, Don't ... relevant to my life, but mostly I decided that the self-help shelves didn't ... adults I knew didn't have it all together the way I'd thought they did. The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  . Productive procrastination? Oh and I also need some fancy clothes. I didn't ... anything and everything relevant." OK. Well I don't have any business or ... Science and/or some other major that I don't know I want to major in yet. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  , and also a very large snapping turtle, which I don’t think the swimmers ... that I'm staying in for the summer. Escher couldn't just draw a normal ... , particularly in AI research. It has an incredibly elegant syntax that doesn’t

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  better. Hi, I’m Michelle, and it’s super nice to meet you! If you didn’t ... can happen, I’ve learned that sometimes they don’t, and that’s totally ... live with the fact that most things aren’t going to turn out how you

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014