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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 a running joke between Fatima and me that…

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  Putting together a semester’s course schedule is a nontrivial endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time, there’s a lot of “darn I can’t take…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student Office gave a presentation about adjusting to life in the alien environment that was the United States. As a…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  It’s 7:59am. The natural lighting fills the room– every square inch of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do– but none of…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  It is that time of year again! The semester is starting, campus is coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby bloggers to…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  Since Fall 2018, I’ve lived at WILG, an independent living group at 355 Massachusetts Avenue, a seven-minute walk from main campus. You may know us from my previous blog post…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of red brick…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester. According to my iCal, I have spent nineteen hours in class in the last three…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Last fall, I went from my summer internship directly into running REX events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the first week of classes. It was a fun…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  Since my sophomore year at MIT, I’ve been an associate advisor, an undergraduate student that works with MIT faculty to provide support and act as a resource/guide for MIT first-years.…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  You may have noticed that the application for the class entering in 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the changes and preview…

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall, and to spread the word (and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician… Even…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A. ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats. PUF⁠35 short…

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On the fourth floor of E52,⁠36 home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days there is exactly one men’s…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  The other day, my friend sent me photos of herself trying on potential wedding dresses. She recently got engaged to her boyfriend on their third anniversary. I liked looking at…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates – one of us a teacher, the other three getting…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  Don’t tell, but I’ve never written much poetry before. I read poem books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection,…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There’s always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the clings and clangs…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  This summer, I worked for fourteen weeks as a software engineering intern at a start-up that focuses on artificial intelligence and data science. My team was focused on AI-powered audio-to-text…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022