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• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  each step of your problem-solving process when you don’t know yet whether ... had I asked a TA. I didn’t know anyone else in the class and I wasn’t ... connection or recognition doesn't happen, and that's important for incoming

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pics from the WMBRBQ! Do You Like College Radio??

  

  clubs, but didn't drop any clubs from last year, so now I'm kind of ... , because you get to see all kinds of people that you didn't even know were a ... called .NEF, which is unique to the Nixon Camera brand. And it can't be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  just haven’t gotten the prompts quite right, I think it is more likely that a) applicants simply don’t understand what information we are ... something more concrete along the lines of "do this" or "don’t do that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  octopus https://youtu.be/pxuBwfNp2wk?feature=shared&t=15 Cephalopods ... of wisdom, but we can’t write about what it’s like to experience ... understand what kind of admissions blogger you would be. If anything isn’t

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora because the trip seemed logistically inconvenient, I was tired, and I had ... the beautiful is one I can't pass on. [caption id="attachment_100807

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  won’t bore you with the details, even though it was AMAZING and I feel ... wind is whistling if you listen there's the harbor, don't you miss it ... ="alignnone" width="225"] Gilford T. ‘26 yearns for the mines[/caption] the children

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  often fear that when I talk, people aren't actually listening, so I'm glad ... isn't working, you may look at the bits being written or read to see ... understanding how exactly small computers work and how to fix things that aren't

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  sucked into the Friends zone. I love the show. Don't know what Friends ... heavily on dialogue. But that shouldn't undermine how well the writers did ... other stuff happens too. I wouldn't know, I've only watched up to Season 3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Was Here. It goes: But I love you more than words can say I can't count ... you more than words can say I wrote it because I didn't feel "sad enough ... went to a retreat with some friends, and I didn't realize we were in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can't ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can't ... confusion. you don't know what is happening. your brain makes noises, and you

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  emails with the subject line “help i don’t know what I’m doing with my life ... freshman, I didn’t stray too far from my intended path. I picked up a ... couldn’t get past the physical disconnect.  Once MIT shipped out fancy i

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  've worn many hats with the student groups i've worked with, and i wouldn't ... things, it's to make sure that things get done." i've learned that it doesn't ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won't

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  , specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf ... complicated subject that i don’t think i’m qualified to write about in detail ... displaced, but it won’t affect us, right? i wasn’t expecting a statement of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  small, positive part of other people’s stories.” Shouldn't that be enough ... , freshman fall, that you don't have to save the world; that all you have to do ... couldn't save the world, even if you tried. You can't be the sink node for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  . this is disconcerting for numerous reasons. firstly, i feel like i don't ... students and even [annotation note="it wasn't creepy do not worry ... 'm the one telling freshmen what they should do and what they shouldn't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  realize that sometimes it means that I won't answer your question directly ... what score you need to score to get in. But remember, scores aren't ... comments section will remain open for another month, and while I can't

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i'm scared to because i wouldn't know what to say, but i have some good ... nothing done, like today, because today was a day that didn't have classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  'm around two weeks into it at this point, so it wasn't a sudden shift ... hadn't yet begun, my roommates were able to devote a lot of time to help ... classes. Can't wait to see how the semester goes!

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  an MIT student. I wouldn’t consider myself graduated emotionally, but ... ’s cliche, but it doesn’t really feel like it’s been 3.5 years since I entered ... to convince myself that this hasn’t just been one long extended fever

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  that hadn't been erased for at least two years — now, it works just fine ... : whiteboard (duh) paper towels washcloths that you don’t mind getting ... — marker ink could get into the holes but then couldn’t be erased. Turns out

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021