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  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. PUF⁠13 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 E52,⁠14 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  I’m spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before classes begin next week. But over the last week, the Class of 2026 arrived on campus for their orientation, of which…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  (The subtitle is from my unpatented and unholy mix of the songs “Walking in LA” by the Missing Persons and “Welcome to New York” by Taylor Swift, with which I…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  This summer, I took an art class through the Student Art Association at MIT. These classes aren’t for credit and if you’re an undergraduate student, you can become an Art…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  International student orientation started last week, and the first-years, or technically prefrosh as they aren’t first-years yet, because they aren’t officially frosh until convocation, the international prefrosh are here, so…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  I have a confession to make, which is that I’ve started this post at least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to finishing it. Every…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with the purpose of documenting East Campus…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  campus feels alive again. frosh spilling into dorms, catching up with hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard, texting people if they want to get…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  in my favorite naruto scene, a samurai and a ninja charge at each other. everyone expects their blades to collide in midair, but instead, this is the result: the samurai’s…

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i’m in, esp, we toss the phrase “institutional memory” a lot. it refers to the knowledge that’s shared between the members in the group. because…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022