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• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  After a seven-ish month renovation, the new Varsity Weight Room is now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at MIT, the new VWR is now double the size, has double the number of racks

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  bad. tick Nothing feels right; everything feels wrong. tick MIT is ... . MIT is not the academic utopia I imagined it to be.']MIT classes take so ... something that MIT prides itself in. But, I have to move on. I have to keep my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... -driven than other classes I’ve taken at MIT. It’s a lot like what I imagined/hoped MIT classes would be like before I applied. Several of my friends are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  Clothes are so fun! I love tailoring my outfits to whatever is happening — baggy metal shirts for long hours in shop, sleeveless shirts for the forge, cropped ones for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8 ... (mostly on MIT’s budget). I took an IAP class that brought me to Brazil

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out with friends in the 4AB lounge, eat dining hall food in Simdin, and rearrange the…

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  write some notes for the people that have made my MIT experience ... entered MIT really afraid of what people were going to think of me. I was ... taken so many classes at MIT while balancing it alongside her various

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  [annotation note='I am writing this down in class-equivalents; MIT has a ... average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  justifications: that I can’t write consistently at MIT anyway so why not do ... lotteried MIT writing workshop, a few Harvard writing workshops, 3 ... figured I would take as many as I [annotation note="the MIT workshop clashed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic ... didn’t make use of MIT time as readily as we college students do. They ... . The room bubbled with far more energy than any 9am MIT class I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  -free since you have quite a bit of time until you commit to MIT and arrive on ... one you vibe with?? MIT students get support from all sorts of places ... . it's good to use CPW to get a glimpse of what living groups MIT has to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  ." On Monday I had an appointment with MIT Medical, to get the irregular ... sorts had been before I came to MIT, three years ago. The nurse referred ... like, being alone in a world outside the auspices of MIT. He confessed

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  This year, I’m volunteering with the MIT Educational Council to interview students applying to MIT. During one of my interviews, a student asked me for ... before MIT Early Action applications were due, rather than give my own

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a brief walk to Caffè Nero alternatively titled: life update since i am comically bad at blogging this semester

  

  surrounding choosing a living community is a constant in the MIT experience, at ... Israel this summer? i'm doing MEET, a program where MIT students teach

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  from Kendall/MIT to Charles/MGH, is named as such because of this poem ... Period, where MIT people can do "whatever they want."']IAP[/annotation] has ... MIT. I've kept up with people and even found time to do some additional

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... it to see how MIT has changed me. You can usually [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  -minute bike ride from MIT, which seemed decent. After touring it, however ... /what's an acceptable distance from MIT for you? Options: Allston ... 't mind doubling. As for location, I wanted to be as close to MIT as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  know. But it's one that I think a lot of MIT students share. But the ... interesting things that I wanted to explore while at MIT. So I thought that I ... direction, but very low confidence in it. CLUBS AT MIT HOLY SHIT This is a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  they take in oxygen, mit feels bigger now. i feel bigger now. i feel ... of mit, back when i was thirteen or fourteen, and i wasn’t even ... ’ll be great. and then i went to et, one of mit’s independent living

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020