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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  Office is right off of the Kendall/MIT stop on the redline. Everyone

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  of seven full classes. the 'average' or 'sane' MIT student takes 4 ... for the first time,[/annotation] in my sixth semester here at MIT, and ... constantly fluctuating sets of policies at MIT and beyond, such as the absurd

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  . MIT was going “back to normal,” and I would too. This semester is worse ... experience I have had at MIT, if not in my life. It is hard both academically ... was my genuine sense of the narrative arc of my MIT experience—I had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  stepped away from MIT during the pandemic, like me. I'm taking mostly ... .701), even though I learned it during my time away from MIT. I didn't think my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  down to write this blog.  UROP, one of MIT’s umpteen acronyms, stands ... ‘internship’ at MIT, you mean an internship with an outside company. Research has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  MIT. And I know how even more frustrating it is to hear it from the very ... statements. There is a larger world outside of the tiny little blip that is MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was slightly less smooth than…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  *full disclosure: this post was mainly written for the title* We are so freaking capable of adapting to drastic life changes. It might not feel like it all the time,…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  delighted to find out that MIT Libraries has Books 1 to 3, each Book being a ... . I remember, back when I was in high school, reading A Hard MIT Class ... a grad student in MIT, which must have been ten years ago. Even longer

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  tuesday night, i went to [annotation note="mit’s square dancing club ... friends. then i watch roadkill buffet, mit’s improv comedy group. i spend ... thursday, i go to mit mental health for my appointment. we talk for a little

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  worried about my decision to go to MIT. Of course they were proud of me, as ... , they also knew just how stressful the MIT culture is. It's not that the environment is overly competitive -- MIT is probably one of the most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

    i have a general color coding scheme: green are classes. they’re pretty much the only things i’ve been putting on my calendar for the past three years. light blue…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  us questions at mccormick-rex@mit.edu!  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I’m back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  've done serious coding in a good while. At MIT, there's often an attitude ... helplessness' butt is something I really wanted to do at MIT, and this class has

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . Togetherness. Gratitude. Today, the MIT community gathered for a Vigil of Hope

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  of being surrounded by family. Since coming to MIT, I've oscillated

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get at MIT. However, that means that students at ETH don't necessarily ... able to fly back to take the exams. Other MIT exchanges have arranged

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... . And the program is funded by MIT—airfare, lodging, metro transportation

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... of what made me want to come to MIT, but I don’t think they were ... someone in their range of vision is "ahead" of them. I think that MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017