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• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  So. I had a COVID false alarm this week, which is why I’m currently back at home instead of my new place in Cambridge. I think it’s ironic that my…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  No one marks you five minutes late⁠06 in MIT time, classes start five minutes past the hour. anymore, and I know it’s a college thing but part of me feels…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Portraits of a Campus on Lockdown

  

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 14, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  last year, things were so different. i was an ordinary freshman who lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to physical classes. now, i’m living…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn’t actually planning on writing a start of semester post this time around, mostly because I feel like there are metaphysically bigger things to blog about. But, since it’s…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that everything is so cool. SO COOL. And interesting, and exciting, and !!! (unintelligible excited noises). Imagine this…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Last week, I blogged about 7.00: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and the Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  I like to think that people are defined by two things — the values that they hold and the choices that they make. So I figured that a half-decent way…

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  there was this time three weeks ago, when i was still living in baker, that the internet went out for a while. it was around 7:45 pm, and i went…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  In the past few weeks, I’ve been pretty busy with SCUFFY,⁠35 Support Communities For First-Years ESC,⁠36 Exploring Support Communities and other general freshman orientation/recruitment events. It’s been a lot of…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  I landed in Boston on a cloudy day about a week ago, and…it sure has been A Week™. Freshmen aren’t invited back to campus this semester, but I’m renting an…

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South Dakota was, for the most part, uneventful. I happened to be on the same flight as…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as blogger captain,⁠54 this basically means it is…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  I did this for my classes last semester, and it was pretty tragic, so let’s see if this one goes  bit better this time! Here’s my gcal! This semester I’m…

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  I’ve recently started to use Notion on a small scale after Kathleen bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task management, once you get over…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  I’m excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren’t on campus, I won’t be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few things that will be keeping…

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  Hello 2024s. I’m about to go on another blogging hiatus, but I wanted to tell you some things before I go: Exactly two years ago, I was approximately where you…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  Today is Registration Day, or Reg Day, the day that MIT students sign up for classes. I’m co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020