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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  lab--I even got to train some new UROPs. I finally cross-registered for ... getting used to. An RAship is more like having a job and less like being a ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder ... chill week, which is a week filled with events for new people to have an

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... on your planned roadmap. Want to schedule 200 classes in your sophomore ... [/annotation] classes you’d need to take to major in 6-2 and get an MEng

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  ) that Shaw's gives a discount to MIT students: you get 5% off with your ID ... project, and get your name on a paper, then it will almost certainly have to ... else) You're free to eat at any dining hall: the meal plans are not dorm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  things in your life will be determined by complete serendipity. You can ... those skills. You may be surprised by the things you like to do, and the ... Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New York City. While walking around the downtown area, my roommate took me to ... ." On a final note, if you're in Cambridge and want to see a building that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  convenient way to keep track of the bajillion things that i want to get done at ... life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... pawo?si=sf9IqtB1SreHT98Yqh12fQ went on ~retreat~ to new hampshire

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  weeks at SSP, my priority was to make as many memories with my new friends as possible. On weekdays, those of us willing to get up for breakfast ... Walmart, which, in our tiny New Mexico town, was a destination akin to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  panic set in. You're going to get nightmares of every tiny mistake you ... on both exams, you're fine. I somehow managed to scrape by with my ... ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  truck to get their cannon back.  The students were met by MIT students who ... this picture below posted to the website www.howeandser.com from 2006 ... the cannon so that they don't have to worry about it getting stolen

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  virtual setting, especially considering that it's hard to bond with new people when your interaction is consigned to a closed Zoom room. Over the ... -years in particular to meet new people, so the show was a wonderful means of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Gingerbread Gone Horribly Right "run, run, as fast as you can..."

  

  Gothic with our communal frog spoons) Then, things started to get darker ... was one of a series of events organized by The Committee, an elected ... rails, thanks to some wonderful teamwork—we’re all about the collaboration

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  studying the subject, since I found it was easy to "get by" by just doing the ... have so much to do. In the last few months, my writing career got pushed to the back burner so I could survive my classes (four technicals, all

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just ... sunshine and warmth to the other coast, especially on cold, icy New England ... to exam, deadline to deadline. It was nice to get a change of scenery

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  introduction to the medium. Your intervention will begin and end the story. But ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  answered by just saying the first thing that comes to mind. There is time ... you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... . If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  major upsides No Rent - I get to live at my parents’ house for exactly ... company email. Pull up the spec that I need to work on. 8:40 AM- I get lost ... figuring out how exactly to word the spec I’m writing. It’s easy to get in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... painting, the hardest part was accumulating the activation energy to get ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... Written early September after a presentation by Spencer Glendon from

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023