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• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his job. dan: why can't we just take a break from blogging? it's not as if ... away from home? cj: well, the exact details of why aren't important. the

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

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  crazy! Oh, they have no weakness, except for a rock that you can’t find on ... the Great Depression, he was born out of a need for a hero. But I can’t ... ."]Speedball[/annotation]? I bet you don’t know who that is. Or [annotation note="After getting

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... didn’t memorize the street names. Midway there, I realized I’d forgotten

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good ... isn't utilitarian." Speaking rationally, my brother would be making the ... ticketing system was a mess: Olivia wasn't performing at a large arena, but

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It ... response was No." Obviously, I don't know for sure if this is the true answer. It's possible there was some more specific reason that he didn't

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  thing I did when I came to MacGregor? Get a rice cooker, because I haven't ... . Furikake is actually cheating when it comes to rice, and it probably isn't that healthy but it makes rice taste good, so I don't really care

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  isn't that so much cooler and less lame than "FIRST!!11 ... homesickness is merely this: don't stay in your dorm room. At least for me, I ... Dorm Row? As tempting as it is to retreat to your comfort zone, don't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  I did a lot of reading and relaxing. That in itself isn't a ... ="and since I had spent the past several days working remotely, I didn't want to ... gone according to plan, I wouldn't be writing this post. When I first got

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  question: What is my best and worst trait? He admittedly didn't answer with ... meanspirited nature and anger. He thought I was really mean and while it didn't ... call out people on their behavior or on something I don't like. I asked

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I ... . The thing is, I don't know anyone who scored higher than the average ... specific algorithms. These people are here, somewhere, and yet I don't know

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  's true; I used to wake up at five a.m. even though school didn't start ... what shoes to wear for summer. And no, it wasn't some peer-pressure thing, because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent ... go to MIT, isn't that enough proof to say that racism isn't alive?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I ... cool 8th grader (because don’t we all feel that way in 8th grade) that is ... perfectly describe how I felt when I first put foot on campus, but sadly I don’t

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  Wow, that last post was short. I didn't even tell you what I'm doing ... group decision. Don't settle for a satisfactory living group when you ... you don't die on every page. Well, maybe somebody dies.. we'll see

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  paint job the way it is. And most people agree, because who wouldn't like ... said: i don't really know how to say this but i've been trying to find a forum on ther MIT site but didn't succed...:( i would like to speak with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  anomaly. What I don't quite understand is the lack of preparedness by the ... . I don't understand why colleges don't offer up more triples. Yes, it ... were awful. The gist of the post was that people need space. I don't know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  don't write this entry now, when I have so much time on my hands, this ... he was. I learned a lot; Professor Lander was great, but we didn't have ... overflow room) so a lot of people didn't have to go to class (humph*) - the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  we weren’t the funniest friend, or the best listener, but we had a ... else contained in so many past and future blogs*. I don’t want to talk ... because their solutions relied on an intuition that I just don’t have. I see

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  !']If you weren't able to secure a ticket—worry not:[/annotation] there's a ... worth it. I can’t wait for you to see what we’ve created. We’re so hyped ... us out there. And, as if that wasn't enough, my last name means "to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  pretend my midterm doesn't exist my midterm will disappear if i pretend it doesn’t exist if i set down my pen maybe go firespin it will ... *cking pset the whole world will hear me complain i haven’t reviewed this

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023