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Blog / Challenges

my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

“The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear and push, know they would otherwise atrophy.” I wrote this line roughly a month before move-in,…

by Veronica P. '27
September 18, 2024

Blog / Prepare for MIT

tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

I. Lift – Radiohead I didn’t really have a good senior year. My hometown started closing in on me in October, and it would’ve kept doing so until I collapsed…

by Angie F. '28
September 17, 2024

Blog / Extracurriculars

dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

Anyone who knows me from high school or Mathcamp or SSP⁠04 Summer Science Program knows that I have the tendency to do everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events,…

by Ellie F. '28
September 17, 2024

Blog / How to Food

LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

“On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at a…

by Fiona L. '27
September 16, 2024

Blog / Challenges

how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

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By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the belief…

by Fatima A. '25
September 15, 2024

Blog / How to Human

learning how to drive and other matters of identification

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STEP 1: FAIL TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE IN HIGH SCHOOL. This requires some luck based on your circumstances. It’s going to be a bit harder if you live in…

by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
September 12, 2024

Blog / CPW

From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

Last week I started classes at MIT. A simple 7-part sentence that would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I prepare for my 4-year…

by Richard O. '28
September 12, 2024

Blog / Summer

a year of counting fish the shape of real work

When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics is beautiful stuff, magnetic flux tubes and reconnection and turbulence, which I came to appreciate over the…

by Kai V. '25
September 11, 2024

Blog / Announcements

New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

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After several hours of discussing so many good applications that were submitted this year, we inducted nine new bloggers! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
September 7, 2024

Blog / Athletics

[joint post] a guide to mit gyms see Gloria's post

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[joint post] a guide to mit gyms

by Kanokwan T. '25
September 4, 2024

Blog / Classes

What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and now it’s 12:45AM. I haven’t done a “what am I taking this semester” post in a while, because I…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
September 4, 2024

Blog / Events

4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

The first day of classes is tomorrow. I can’t believe it.⁠29 like, of course i technically can, but... what??? summer flew by The past few days have been the shortest…

by Kanokwan T. '25
September 3, 2024

Blog / Athletics

We’re So Back a collage of preseason

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1. Welcome Back to Campus Preseason Kickoff Preseason for fall sports is a span of two weeks in the summer before the semester starts, where women’s and men’s soccer, football,…

by Emiko P. '25
September 2, 2024

Blog / Classes

Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

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Today was my first full day back on campus! This summer was a whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania, visiting family in Delaware and New…

by Jessica Z. '27
September 1, 2024

Blog / Admissions

“What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

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In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There are these two young fish swimming along and they…

by David duKor-Jackson
August 27, 2024

Blog / Summer

my summer internship

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the joys of signing an NDA.

by Anika H. '26
August 26, 2024

Blog / Challenges

Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a group of friends, I swear! Alternatively, mansplain manipulate man…ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my…

by Allison E. '27
August 24, 2024

Blog / Announcements

MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

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Today I spoke with MIT News about the impact the Supreme Court’s decision in the SFFA case had on the composition of the Class of 2028, why it matters, and…

by Stu Schmill '86
August 21, 2024

Blog / How to Food

[guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

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Caleb is a rising sophomore at MIT. He is currently studying Computer Science and Engineering, as well as a minor or concentration in Linguistics. He is from Dallas, Texas, and…

by Kayode D. '27
August 13, 2024

Blog / Academics & Research

TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

This summer, I started a new UROP⁠104 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with professors. with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research,…

by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
August 7, 2024