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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and soul searching.⁠01 going to therapy I ate toast with peanut butter and banana slices for breakfast every day, packed…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  Things pick up pace real quick once the semester starts. At times, it feels like you’re in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates, responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  Power tools East Campus brings to mind rollercoasters and huge construction projects. Fanciful monsters built up from wood and screws. Less so the things that are built, but more the…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would break you down and slowly build you back up again. MIT is not the military, but MIT will…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don’t have much to…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  Picture this: me, three water balloons in hand, running across Killian court with my East Campus compatriots by my side. I’m smiling, I’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense…

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  this summer, i found myself with *free time*. it wasn’t quite as much free time as you might expect with a 9-6 job schedule since i was always super tired…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally in session and i have…an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post was a lot of feelings, but…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I’m taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with Tyler Jacks⁠58 director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms, including how we write our dates. The convention of MM-DD-YY⁠63 and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21E our major in a diagram!

  

  We are majoring in 21E, a joint major that lets you combine any humanities field (21), and any engineering field (E). We were recently messaged about the requirements of 21E,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime in the near future.…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  for a brief moment over the summer i think i truly believed that i was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i’ve been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in hopes of making good impressions but i realize at this point it will all appear as the…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of adult things.⁠72 including but not limited to: having hour long phone calls…

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from the comforts of home in Seattle, more than three thousand miles away from MIT. I’m slowly…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new bloggers to you!…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Cinnamon rolls I made with Elisabeth ’22 shortly after I moved into WILG (Womens’ Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They turned out really well, though we…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We’re big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile. You can go back to 2012 to Qiaochu’s post about his life in the cloud; back…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to share with you. First things first:…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019