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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  being on campus, and my freshman year in general. I don't really have any ... don’t know what I’m missing. I’ve never had the “MIT experience.” I ... Zoom classes aren’t the norm. My roommate and I have to regularly remind

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  individual, probably don't read through these, because while I have still ... ” "why be emo when you could just be a bottom" "You don't need a bisexual ... outfit." "I want 911 to call me so I don't sound thirsty" "Empathetic

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn’t ... cooking, so I don’t know what I would do with meat at home, and only two of ... Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  healthier habits. Often times, when I tell someone about it, they’ll ask, “Isn’t ... procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful – even if I don’t follow every single tip I hear, it helps to hear new ways

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  think nothing of it, because I wasn't wearing my glasses. It took me a ... , because I wasn't very keen on ingesting bugs, despite the extra protein. So ... ??? 3. Speaking of owning things we didn't think we owned...for some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... commit. Five of us signed on, but two others couldn't promise anything since they didn't have their financial aid information yet. We decided to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  on . I was shy until I wasn’t, which happened around 7th grade when I ... . I did robotics, which was fun until it wasn’t. Eventually I decided I ... . I promised myself I wouldn’t look back ever again. It’s so simple

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking ... wanted to be great and known more than loved and seen. but...i didn’t want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  ): Decided I wasn’t going home Packed up my entire dorm room Walked through ... and exhaustion as they come. When things go wrong, I usually don’t feel emotions until I think I’m “safe”. I didn’t exactly feel “safe” until I

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

   complicated feelings that you don't know what to call; that's okay too. For right now, we

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  .lab[/caption] At the end of week 4 is the awards ceremony, because web.lab isn’t just ... when I wanted to figure out what happened when I wasn’t working on the ... server, a hotloader, and my browser, at the same time. This isn’t supposed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  Kendall Square restaurant, Clover. When I say favorite, I mean F.A.V.O.R.I.T ... ’ perfect (which is why I don’t mind shamelessly plugging it on the blog). BUT ... isn’t the point, it’s what the coffee represents. They know my name

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  the view from my window and netflix's view of my window through another window

  

  "] computer: enhance[/caption]   Ain't that neat.

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 21, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in ... didn’t notice any of the supposedly awful CGI lol, and hence mostly just

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  people who don't verify they will receive their decision! [caption id ... saturday but you're just a tiny baby who hasn't verified and it doesn't work ... mailing address. But please, be nice to our office Grant, and don't email

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  zero is an awful feeling. On my first few weeks, I couldn’t even squat ... , not because I wasn’t working out any more, but due to an awful ... haven’t made it clear, he is really into powerlifting"]an article about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  , but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. i feel like ... class and isn't as engaging as i expected, so lecture is just a 2-hour void :/ and i don’t know what’s going on half the time but i pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  of high school I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know if I ... .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... schools were [annotation note="I didn't do sports, I didn't have a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  . . . Don't get me wrong. Quantifying can be useful. (How else would I keep ... done. In fact, within the last few weeks, I've realized that this isn't ... bookshelves. Except, as I realized, my sophomore year wasn't a waste. Far from

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  ?” boat. We don’t want to treat this blog as a way to directly advise you. We don’t want to say something like: if you feel X, then you will ... read the blogs and didn’t give another school a chance… that is, until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019