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• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  Every IAP, I travel. I can't help it. There's this wanderlust ... experiences is one of the reasons I chose this MIT, especially because I didn't ... . So, I must confess: before this trip, I didn't know much about Armenia

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by']I can't believe it ... my head. Nerves tightened. I couldn't quite get myself to bed. The ... reasons Didn't Cha Know by Erykah Badu I'm trying to decide Which way to go

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  my favorite things together." I also didn't have the confidence to ... fun and intimidating, but that meant I couldn't frequently step back and ... proportions ended up different from the draft. Color I haven't painted a mural

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  productive I am right now. I haven't even done any work today. Today was ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed ... down again. Couldn't go to sleep. I watched Hermitcraft videos for two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  body at one time.  While I won’t be dying to zombified piglins or ... . Unfortunately, it wasn’t drilled into our heads enough, because neither my two ... wouldn’t be able to sustain the fall damage, and I’m scrambling, clambering

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  it doesn't. some groups renew themselves every four years with zero ... . that doesn't mean that a graduate runs the group themselves, but that ... isn't always a bad thing; it's a way to extend institutional memory

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  define your budget and expected costs. You can't expect people to live with you if the details are hazy (at least I wouldn't). Having clearly ... open and let bugs in. They won't clean the bathroom. It's irritating, it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... won’t work, you’d never get anything done.  # As it turns out, though

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  doesn't cut it for my social battery anymore, so I make an active effort ... activation energy for doing so was dummy high and because I didn't want to miss out on anything at my dorm. At home, though, I don't have that issue

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  .[/annotation] but ultimately, I realized that this class wasn't worth it. it wasn't ... mathematics!"]majors[/annotation] and it wasn't a graduation requirement and I wasn't enjoying it at all. I wanted to devote more energy to the other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  hours, because I simply didn't feel capable of confronting reality. But ... accumulated into internal goosebumps. And when that wasn't enough, eventually ... sob. I can't remember the last time I cried like that. Alone and on a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  'm focusing on is Splash. If you don't know, Splash is basically MIT students ... , basic Japanese, partial differential equations (I don't know multivariable ... (oh look, she's being gay again), and a few others that I can't recall

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  morning and you're feeling overwhelmed. Maybe that problem isn't making ... power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  who haven't said anything yet... If you were admitted to a college, I ... and gone, and for those of you who haven't responded yet (who haven't ... worse. Plus, it doesn't have to be goodbye forever--we can still be

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  second home hasn't been the easiest idea to pound into my often-stubborn brain, to be honest. I didn't immediately have the "IHTFP" (of the ... decide: my friends here are awesome and I wouldn't trade them for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and ... , qualified, well-matched students who applied to us, something we don't ... amongst our admits. Very cool. By the way, don't write down these

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  6 – 7 hours a night. I know there are those people here that don’t ... to function properly. When you don’t get sleep at night, you end up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn't ... from below, then from the sides. The colors didn't change at all from the sides; when viewed from the bottom, they became more pronounced, but didn't

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... to get started with them. Sure, I could do stuff, but today I don't ... , Thursday, and Friday. The only reason Saturday and Sunday weren't included

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  semester, I knew I couldn’t stay in all three groups. But I really didn’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun ... it was less of a time commitment. As a wind player, I often don’t

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011