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• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  around, and I left that sleepless, exhilarating set of weekends with a song ... Minority Education with a seven-week summer component meant to ease the transition into MIT for incoming freshmen and provide them with all the support

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags of fake blood and medicine bottles on string lights. I chatted with a ... Xi, a gender-inclusive fraternity with strong east side vibes. I came

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... I was happy with how fall turned out in the end, I was miserable for ... at a pace faster than I could keep up with but the professor was clear

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  ; there is just something so magical and whimsical about being with you. I ... lecture -- without a care in the world, with no fear of repercussion or ... connections with anyone and everyone. But as I grew, that envy morphed into

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

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  ’s green earth fill my little southern heart with as much delight and ... the American South, with the help of country music. The first forms of ... country with hits such as C.W. McCall’s “Convoy” and the band Alabama

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  year of blogging with another blogger wrapped. these have become a ... : 2021 2020 2019 2018 let's start with some stats! MG has literally ... to hyper-fixate on! thanks for keeping us entertained with random new

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  , with 21 (12 from 614 and 9 from UAT) of those already allocated, so that gives me about 33 units to play with. I have a list of classes I ... on developing technical skills to work with big data to expose societal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted ... various people I had plans with that Thursday and Friday, either ... sick hanging out with a sick friend and be unable to do that work. But on

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  had a hall that felt like mine, one with two shelves filled with board ... things. how's east campus these days? or, what's going on with mystery hunt ... and traditions fade more with each year, with nothing new coming up to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... , chatting with the organization leaders there and taking free items from the ... , closely guarded the treasure. We approached the booth with the apprehension

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  than yours with such alien mental models that you cannot predict the ... time and access to reference images. With his work I have no idea. then ... suppose) and software engineers, and i think with some effort i’d be able to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with ... pulls out a huge courtyard party, filled with rides and music and ... build lead this year, so I'm not even *that* involved with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  process, or I'm riding the high from hanging out with friends, or I'm so ... grocery shopping. Over IAP, with mostly nothing else to do because I ended ... YouTube, mostly consisting of people with aesthetic cookware

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  with me. And are, in turn, who I am. For each story, I'll share useful ... mark some titles with an asterisk. Those are the most influential of the list. I hope you'll find a story that resonates with you too. Without

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  in this major is a trip. I struggle with the concept of having one ... struggle with having one’s school be one’s identity — MIT is a cool place but ... knowing people — not just the ones I sit with but people across the lecture

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  semester ended and May faded into June, I was still dealing with everything ... and think about what I want to do with my life. So this summer, working 9 to 5, I’ve filled the many hours after 5 pm with everything I missed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  , knowing the costs that came with joining a sorority (all these rules ... ). But, really, the connection with the people in the sorority itself ... ...eerie and strange and still weird for me. I feel like a fake, in a way, with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  eventually you will end up with the sentences you want to write anyway. i got ... in a team with greg, a junior in mechanical engineering, who has pretty ... an ascension 7 run with the defect on slay the spire, after eleven

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year ... the rest of my years at MIT. right now, i'm living in a house with six ... has happened due to quarantine, even if every day with my roommates is a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  i’m good at cooking!"]confident in my skills,[/annotation] with the ... [/caption] Ultimately, an unnecessary item to have, but getting this filled me with a ... around. No longer was I a dejected wannabe chef fumbling with my olive oil

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021