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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a ... actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the ... videogames. I sometimes play my friend Satya in Smash, and I don’t think I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I just putting myself through an unnecessary struggle?" Why I didn't ... background in anything AI-related, still eludes me. On the other hand, I don't ... after undergrad? I don't know. Industry? Academia? I don't even know if I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  . it turns out it wasn't covid, as multiple negative pcrs and rapids ... said. "i think it should be on your chart? maybe you just can't see it ... hitting me pretty hard. getting sick definitely didn't help. my sore throat

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... magically just got made without me doing it. I wished that I didn't have to ... criticism is negative, when the thing I made wasn't well-received. This year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in class all day. Isn’t innocence so [annotation note= " *cries in psets and office hours * seriously though, i wish i hadn't made that trade

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  living my life at such a break-neck speed that I haven’t really processed ... . Quadrant two is “Wow so much fun but help I can’t breathe out of my nose ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  , and I hope you don't turn down the Skype interview if you happen to be ... anyone and I don't know what you got on your SATs. After I write my ... interview - I won't ask you to solve any problems, and I won't ask you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  sphere of flames. One squinted at the screen. “Shouldn’t we see it already ... calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second scowled at him. “Our calculations aren’t wrong,” he said. “The transit of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  anyway, so I don't think this is such a big error as people make it out to ... hall. Lecture halls in that format aren't common at MIT (i.e. long table ... producers got the numbering system right, the numbers of the rooms aren't

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  even though I don't actually go there yet. If you think that makes me ... I can't even begin to explain it. When I do get to MIT, I'm planning ... honest, I won't be offended by anti-Jersey jokes at all. I understand and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here ... school who was killed. You couldn't have said it better - people do need to ... they didn't receive the big envelope. For me, seeing the admitted

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  this is different this has been a build up a wave   I haven't ... been persistent thought patterns I've experienced that don't reflect who ... don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  those days. the blah The ones that don't feel quite right, but you can't ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... , most people, including real adults out in the real world, don't really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  I don’t have the voice to ever become better than a mediocre singer ... higher. I don’t try to take my writing too seriously, which isn’t always ... likes? I don’t want to commodify everything, and I don’t want to be good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  didn't spend writing i spent eating dinner with friends! on tuesday ... pretty good, both the actual steak and the tofu steak. i haven't eaten ... valentine's day dinner, which i couldn't make this year because i was running

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  many people do care about me, people I wouldn't thought to have ... seem to hear alongside these check-ins are "I don't know a Cami without ... , a co-op adventure of sorts. I don't regret any of my time spent in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my friendships to be beautiful, I don’t even know what that means. I want my ... classmate pontificate about manifest destiny, and realizing that they weren’t

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  learned this summer and what it means for me going forward: I shouldn't ... position where they can't care about compensation. And to be honest, a large ... , I don't want people to lose their jobs in a society that requires

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  -years, or technically prefrosh as they aren't first-years yet, because they aren't officially frosh until convocation, the international ... , but it's only a lie in the sense that it can't be truth, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  made a comment, half-joking, something to the effect of "I can't wait to ... over time. I said I wasn't ambitious, anymore, that I had let go of that ... ,[/annotation] if he sees my name show up somewhere. I still don't think I'll go on to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022