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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me - faced with decisions like where to live and to work. I didn’t have values ... losing things I didn’t realize were important, do I now have things I won’t

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  you don’t literally live with your friends, it takes effort to organize ... wasn't [annotation note="even though the community was so cool 😭 ... , whether they’re just great at planning things with friends or don’t really

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  I can't wait to write one of those class tier list blogs before I ... " or "[insert hardware jargon that I don't remember because I had no idea ... unmatched). I still don't know what a microcontroller is, but no one really

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  healthy– something something “Life doesn’t work out like a satisfying story ... invested a lot of time into academics (and writing), but I didn’t really ... of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  there was a couch, so we'd fit. It costs $5500 per month. "Beggars can't ... moved in. It didn't have air conditioning or three-prong outlets or bowls ... complain about housing in the bay area, though, this isn't a post about that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn’t ... ."]asleep.[/annotation] This coming semester, I plan to journal more, to store the memories I don't ... will not regret doing this  (unless something happens) (but I don't

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  think MIT has worn out of me is empathy. I won’t say that I was always ... tolerable. Yet, genuinely caring for the people around you doesn’t mean you ... I can’t really understand other people. I can imagine how they might

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  what I can't handle / don't think I prioritize as much. This time, I am stuck! And don't know what to choose and I thought I'd blog about it so ... Get Away With 3 I Don't Know CDGD203 - Foundations of Graphic Design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  because we couldn’t even fathom casting our minds forward that far. January 2020 might as well have been October 2001 – wasn’t it just going to be as ... went. (It didn't.) My adult life version of CPW got cancelled. All of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... hotels, as his insurance wouldn't arrange a hotel room for us until that ... was pretty emotional, although I didn't show it as much. In the weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  time soon, but my time [annotation note="In LiGhT oF rEcEnT eVeNtS r ... -maker doesn't mean it should be. I hope someone uses it. [caption id ... for the past couple of days. IT's been wrecking me-- couldn't sleep in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don’t ... everyone I mention, because I don’t really know everyone’s last initials or ... take the coin, because they wouldn’t want to write hundreds of puzzles

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  . Every place I went, everything felt a little bit off. I don't like being ... don't know if it was torture or therapy to have to relive every single ... there will come a day where I don't remember her name anymore. And that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  the back. I didn’t notice until I went to Puerto Rico to surf on spring ... me that wasn’t likely to be both expensive and ineffective. So I was ... life when I felt like there wasn’t a lot I could control, personally and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  insults). But for the most part, it didn’t matter. Crucially, it didn’t ... . This was a lesson I didn’t have, or need, to think about until recently ... shouldn’t be so difficult to achieve. The language of the prohibition takes

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  can't tell if I love or hate. I’ll be working on the problem sets and ... for ten hours it’s 7 a.m. jesus christ, go to sleep," but I can’t cause ... . Usually, I am fine with losing a night's sleep as long as I don’t have to do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  wasn't even coffee anymore. Now, I just need coffee. And it's been 2 ... home. I had not been back since June, and I didn't know how much I missed ... solely to skating, and it felt almost weird that I didn't have finals to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  probably won't worry about dropping a class you may fail. You’re on Pass ... create a Physical Education Plan if you don't complete the 8 required ... /No Record and GIRs Don’t overload on required classes and GIRs during your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  indication, then for all intents and purposes, I was stressed out. It doesn’t ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... to do was roll back into bed. Even Tylenol couldn’t really bring my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  by Emad T. '14 Bumps, slumps, trips, and ... by Cam T. '13 There ... experienced by some of its most thoughtful students. I couldn't be prouder ... , or what they would be. Certainly it wasn't clear that the blogs would

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014