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• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  [/annotation] (which at the time had very vague policies about what we could leave and ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... think a big part of it is boredom. At MIT I would roam campus and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  to finish it. two years later, jessica and i are neighbors at next ... 6.033 design project preliminary report so nisha doesn't yell at me, i ... - day 1 - feb 26 Arrived at East Campus with three bags, hoping this is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  a firehose. Here's a quick look at my calendar and a recap of the ... , except for the security guard at the front desk, and a few passer-buyers on ... cram for or psets to scramble to finish. But skating it was--either at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am, there was a knock at my door.  I am a Medlink in East Campus, and I ... , and the girl at my door told me that she did not feel right.  I opened

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  now at MIT - encouraged me to. From what I remember, there were about ... cause, whether it's building a robot or performing science research at a ... drive team during my junior year, heartbroken and at a complete loss for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  at Cambridge and the culture at MIT is that the former has a greater ... 't graded; everything depends on the final (the Tripos) at the end of the year, so unlike at MIT, there isn't a constant pressure to work on psets. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  cringe when they see the title. Dining is the current hot topic at MIT for ... . What I will discuss is how the current dining system at MIT operates ... food at MIT (more specifically, dinner), and they are: 1) House Dining

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  of staring at Jira, VS Code, C++ docs, and the free snack selection in ... life. I found myself staring at these houses each day as I passed ... a creeping sense of dread at this vision of settling–not settling as

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  firespinner has at least one “safety” with a fire blanket. We have a separate ... fire and manipulate. It consists of at least one wick, and a handling end ... and shape of the wick, as well as the speed you’re spinning it at. Here

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... beginning to get the hang of how to be at MIT, how to make the most of the ... leaves me yearning for a do-over, a second chance at the past four years

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  paraphrase now: At this point in the journey, the nymph feels dissatisfied with ... notion of a ‘lukewarm life’ jumped out at me. As a freshman, I found that ... . On paper, I’m at a place in my life that should feel fulfilling and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  school, I danced at home for fun, twirling through my kitchen in socks and ... some Latin dances at CPW. He mentioned he was going to his club’s Casino ... slow exercise at the center of the floor"]adagio.[/annotation] We also

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... . Eventually, I decided to study abroad. I was going to be at Imperial, meaning ... that at all. I also wanted to see what the math community looked like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you ... large rock. Bodies of water have an unwritten contract: if you look at

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  could find at Michaels or Joann’s. I made friendship bracelets, string art ... stop. At the beginning of sleepovers we’d build a blanket fort, and then ... no psets at all to do, I picked up a pair of needles and a ball of yarn

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... is for everyone! it’s not that deep lol. at the end of the day i think ... at how self conscious bloggers are of their Spotify Wrapped data. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... 'm just really bad at managing unexpected stress. something goes wrong and i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  Engineering! At the beginning of this semester, we were given a problem, a ... straight to the bus for our first game of this week — an away game at Lesley ... megging people).  We really popped off at the Lesley game, though, with a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  delicate and costly red glass ball at the end, and send it slowly shooting ... sides. The three of you spend the next half hour chipping at the parts of ... Lab line by line.  Next you are at your UROP lab, above ground but with no

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  've gotten pretty good at it over time. Most importantly, however, to break the ... least socially acceptable. Feel free to reuse them at your own risk. Tier ... ", but people (probably) wouldn't bat an eye at them. Sending love to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023