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• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty challenging.⁠01 alternatively: horrendous Because I switched majors, I’m currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core classes and the junior core classes. Pretty…

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  Earlier today, FIRST — an international youth organization dedicated to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics competition — announced that its cofounder, MIT Professor Woodie Flowers, had…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  I’m currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.)…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  Since today is National Coming Out Day, my friend wrote about coming out to his family. Here’s his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half reassuring myself that i’m Doing…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and…

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  Last Thursday, MIT Medical had a walk-in clinic at Walker, where MIT community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit reluctant to get…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Hi there, it’s been a while! Over the next few weeks, I’ll be catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June. I often…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  We are in our senior year of college now ⁠43 how??? , and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior year of high school.  In high school,…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  Every now and then I get a cool email from the outside world. Here’s a recent one: Jim Olson ’74, OG MacG resident, answered some questions I asked in a…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  My name is Camille (Cami) Mejia. I am a lover of music, dogs, baking, and BTS. I main Ashe in Overwatch. I love chemistry and biology. I have a fear…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y’all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month’s theme…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, ’21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can finally…

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are classes. they’re pretty much the only things i’ve been putting on my calendar for the past three years. light blue…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft⁠81 Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture freedom, and many people…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  I have so many things and so little space, but I’ll try my best to communicate it. I just walked out of an event called “Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  Saturday, 11 AM. Alan Z. ’23 sends me a message. Alan: what do you have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between like 12:30-1 and…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  It’s more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An art installation went up recently…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019