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• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  attendance. My attendance at what, I did not know. At 7 pm yesterday, we ... presidency? I was extremely excited to find out. I showed up at the Welcome Center this morning at 9.45 am sharp, the arrival time for "press planning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  really like topics that are based in math, or at least involve a good ... classes I've ever taken at once. 6.1200 - Mathematics for Computer Science ... , I really like what I'm learning! I'm not great at it, but it

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... into familiar faces everywhere at [annotation note="REX stands for ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... is actually very good, starting at Massachusetts minimum wage of $14 ... city I love at the school I love. Come this time next year, I probably

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... behind it. I don't like the blog at all. I take some pride in saying this ... . Nothing is Worth Getting Sick. The first time I got sick at MIT, I caught

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  at our house.   [caption id="attachment_74563" align ... 't living in the house at the time, but there were about four WILG members ... [/caption] Which they forwarded to the Public Records Officer at City Hall. A few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced with the overwhelming realization of being at that new place before that ... wouldn’t deserve coming. i wouldn’t deserve being at one place when my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Money

  ew taxes the new zealand government owes me money

  

  . Taxes are often withheld at a higher rate than what you actually need to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  , Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this ... cook is to add things until you feel the universe screaming at you to ... the time; I stare despairingly at my ceiling for another 14.82% of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  sad about no food Probably at some point during 5.12 While ... ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  lifetime of 19 years. In honor of the passing of 1000 days, I looked at the ... gotten back from summer camp at MIT, and I was just starting to think about ... then; I am at MIT, and I am more happy than anxious. And, although these

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  was at 14 during that time or at 20 sitting outside the stud as when I ... turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... , I won't say I’ve been at the gym or learning a new hobby. I'll say

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  extracurriculars, get my homework done and still sleep at night. And it was true, but ... pays for so much, and at MIT, one day you may overspend, go broke, and ... have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  very therapeutic although she's not good at handling tears because whenever i cry in front of her she kinda just looks at me like ...you good ... call her "pup" or "puppy" (because at heart, even though she's nine now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  they taught was rude. Now I mostly read at night. When I go to bed at ... reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... the characters but were very much not commonplace to the author at the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  oscilloscope"][/annotation] At the end of 2.678, I have to return the Analog ... "), which has been a really cool way to explore how satellites work at my own ... outdoors, not usually at the lab desk. I also have normal MIT lectures and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  'd say we're managing to keep our heads above the water...at best. Living ... were done by Aiden, me, and Emma (respectively) at a Bob Ross Paint Night ... ="58586" image4="58587" /] That printer has also proven useful at the apartment

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... , for example). Robots don’t have that understanding, and those at the ... not be adept at “feeling” its physical environment. The Industry One of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  'll experience at MIT. This summer, a few of my upperclassmen friends warned me ... constantly. I wake up at 9 am and work until around 11 pm, and then I go to bed ... motivation was at an all-time low in the past year because, uh, the pandemic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020