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• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  This isn't about cross-registering at Harvard. I was thinking about cross-reg, but I didn't want to overload myself this semester. It's about ... somehow worked, or the guy just didn't care enough to stop us. We got a tote

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

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  something completely different altogether. When I speak to Sanatan… I don’t ... i wasn’t sure. most technical work doesn’t feel like magic to me - for ... other hand, i didn’t really like any of the people i knew who were very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  at MIT. These classes aren't for credit and if you're an undergraduate ... an MIT student concurrently was doable, but I didn't think an extensive ... Explorations of Drawing (Advanced), even though I wasn't sure how (Advanced) I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  allow themselves to drift into nihilism lose their edge it shouldn’t come ... that sharp swords don’t actually cut through dull ones. i think this ... between concepts which sound reasonable but don’t actually make any sense

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... , yes. But to be honest, coming into the internship, I wasn't sure what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this ... 's why I haven't been writing so much. I'm scared to document anything I won't like in the future. As a challenge to myself, I'm putting my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  , but we didn’t. Chris was and is difficult to know well, more so than ... shocked because they didn’t know I could actually make this magnitude of ... make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  , but i would try to study with others whenever i wasn't too stressed. i ... it didn't interfere with my academics too much. i spent very little ... was oddly disarming; spending a whole day alone wasn't something i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... it couldn’t be a book you’d read before -- and I was left reading about ... wasn’t really sure which way left was. I’d just failed a driving test

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  process, so I can’t even identify how I got to my current gloomy state ... much existential despair for someone who hasn’t even existed for two ... haven’t gotten over that yet. I didn’t do terribly well in my classes last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of ... [annotation note="it isn’t really any better than other water...but everyone ... ??: 8/10 In reasonable quantities, probably. It doesn’t have ions, though

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Genshin Impact and a better introduction to me

  

  person in the picture is Albedo, who’s an alchemist. I don’t have a lot of ... , *said singing* the only exception, doesn’t have a vision but can go around ... a gacha game.  However, I didn’t know what gacha even meant when I

  • by ana~
  • October 7, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  renovated next summer, and if that happens as planned, i won't get to spend my ... . someone lived in this room five decades ago, and i don't know anything about ... to be a build lead for a project, and honestly i didn't contribute much

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  , though, this airbnb wasn't quite what we were expecting. Firstly, we didn't ... us. What we (or mainly I) weren't okay with was the fact that there ... in for the month of August, but wasn't sure if it was worth the move

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  found out that I hadn't made it to finals in extemp, which felt like yet ... , over and over again. I called a friend briefly, but I didn't really have ... reasoning about why I didn't make it, neither of which were particularly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  gotten stung by a bee. "I just didn't own a phone for a couple of years" - Apparently my professor has an aversion to technology and just didn't find a phone useful or necessary so he didn't see the need to own one "I got

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  's when I'm most productive," high school me would've told you. That wasn't ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... yourself, though. You have to do things you don't like if you want to go

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  was actually incredible. I hadn't worked out in more than a year ... workouts at ungodly hours and I couldn't be happier about it. Occasionally ... blasting music on weekends and we don't have to feel bad about doing the same

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me ... alter abruptly. But I don’t have much evidence to substantiate this, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  both on my own and with others, and don't have anxieties about not making ... to join them even though it seemed like a pretty bad idea. but i don't ... place to work. i both miss and don't miss having to walk places. i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020