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  Summers spending three at home

  

  We spent our last three summers at home. That’s not super common for MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do internships, travel, stay on campus or any…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  my first day goes roughly how i imagined it would go: all the new interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  if you like video games at all, then you’re probably familiar with e3 (THE gaming convention of the year). you might also know that e3 is in los angeles, and i…

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

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* One Summer's Day The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  routine.py

  

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago. Pictures were taken, trips were made, food was scrutinized. But as happens a bit too often, writing…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I’ll return to this blog post throughout the day to add pictures and videos).  Today, Friday, June 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT.…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  It is summer, and I have zero⁠19 virtually, i.e. I'm still blogging and stuff but there are not currently any urgent MIT-related items that require action on my part responsibilities…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn’t comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but to boston, and…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  I wake up a minute before my alarm goes off, at 8.59 am. This has been happening for the last two weeks, and I don’t know why. I bitterly get…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  three days ago, after i finished squeezing all my summer clothes and important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  It was 8:00pm on a Thursday night when I received a text message from a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions officer in the…

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I’m back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT, because we’re edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college’s majors are called ‘courses’. We have a…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Moved Out! before and after pics of my MacGregor room, featuring a view of New House

  

  empty, 5/25/19 full, 11/3/18this is a cropped panorama, forgive my shaky hands + the warping at the top

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we’ve described in the first two parts, we have a…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  almost a year ago (wow how has it been that long), i made an extensive, fangirly post about how much i love spotify and its playlist making features.  i am…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  18.600 poetry compute the probability i overuse the ampersand

  

  dedicated to 18.600, a.k.a. Probability and Random Variables, which I took this past semester. special thanks to: Brice H. ‘19, for your endless patience and generosity, & Ivy L. ‘20,…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 25, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection: The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for finals and my leaving…) and…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  to set the mood: episodes – mishegas here are some photos I took on a warm sunny day warm sunny days were rare this semester rainy, cold days made it…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019