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• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... at recruitment didn't even bother giving us a chance, just flat out telling us they don't want to join DPhiE. They hadn't even talked to us, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn’t ... slowly forward. We ended up at the Alewife T stop, where the bus stop had ... license. I feel pretty good about my fight scenes, but I don’t actually know

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  years. Something about college that I didn’t expect is that college is ... high school student, this might seem a bit counterintuitive. Isn’t the ... learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... whenever I feel like dancing choreographies that I enjoy, but won't learn because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  — Scattered glimmers I must walk away from— Like most fourteen-year-olds, I didn’t ... scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... about poetry, I discovered, was that it didn’t require character or plot

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  didn't quite realize that these laminated words atop a dirty whiteboard ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn't really think much of it. I really wasn't dreaming of all the places I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too ... ’s inevitable. Unfortunately, the naive prefrosh I was didn’t know this and mistook organization for safety from email blasts. I didn’t forecast the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  spreadsheet or productivity app. However, I didn't like Google Sheets or ... flexible highlighting, font colors, etc.) and structure which didn't match ... detail changed. I didn't like needing to duplicate information. This

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  . And I don't know why it took until coming here to realize that I'm my ... take classes I’m interested in even though it doesn’t fulfill any ... ? Should I even ask this question? What if it’s too stupid to ask, but I don’t

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  sage advice, most of which I had wish I wrote down and saved, but I didn't. One that struck me a lot wasn't even something new, but something that ... great as it feels in the moment, often doesn’t last forever. Unfortunately

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  doesn't necessarily mean that every STEM thing sent my way excites me, but ... the average scores. That class convinced me I wasn't meant to be a CS ... restart. I don't have to pursue chemistry and biology because it's the only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  should take more time to do fun things that aren't necessarily productive ... [annotation note="they actually made us apply this year and we weren't ... college, partly because i didn't really listen to [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our ... , so applying to internships or looking for summer UROPs just wasn't ... that is not the case for everyone), so we didn’t feel any pressure to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  (and even with money, i don't think i would have), so i resigned myself ... playstation is part of) wasn't attending e3 this year, i probably wouldn't be ... note="if this isn't an indication of how determined i was to play the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  , scanned, below. (please keep in mind: it wasn't light enough to actually see ... would be an actual recitation being held during this time, so now i don't ... help out a friend, also at recitation, who hasn't finished the lab yet

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  -catching, professional, and seem as if they were made by someone who isn't the person ... getting frustrated when they can't find images with transparent backgrounds ... . Additionally, even though I don't know any of the people behind these theses, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  clothes i wore last night to see [annotation note="i won't give any spoilers ... . don't ever discipline your kids with force, just convey disappointment ... ="my roommate"]cory[/annotation] hasn't even [annotation note="cory takes an

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  this said, I have no idea why I didn't get a Spotify account sooner. Some ... months, I didn't really use Spotify much differently than I used i ... never saw him perform the whole thing). It’s a pretty fire song. You Can’t

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  skating looks like this: yes those are sparks I didn’t start skating ... could have just ended it there saying, “Rollerblading isn’t for me, I have ... record was climbing. I could do tricks that I couldn’t before. Still

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  undergraduates, announcing and explaining those decisions. i won't bother resummarizing those. i encourage you to read their posts if you haven't already ... means that i'm graduating late. i saw MIT as a place that didn't define

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017