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• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  swipes per semester. for many people, this number is too large. and so this ... . food, in general, is a nice way to express care for someone else. there ... house teams put up snacks in dorm lounges for people to take. friends bake

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of ... for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  , checking for sign errors or gaps in understanding. This is not my favorite ... , because by then it’s late and we’re all a little hosed, longing for more ... pay the bills. It is a side pursuit for when I am not writing. I used to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for ... , I did continuous open recruitment once again for Delta Phi Epsilon and ... 'm writing a bit too casually and uncensored and I'll probably get backlash for

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

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

  

  realized I wouldn't be seeing my friends for a long time, knitting has always ... Intensive in the Major (CI-M) is a graduation requirement for all majors, usually taken junior or senior year. For course 2, 2.671 is one of them then

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... down dorm row). There are a few other nearby options for groceries as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  -tier because I either didn't particularly care for the class format, or the ... that I just didn't particularly care for or find applicable...or they ... looking back, I'm grateful for a lot of the classes that I took, or was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  --I'm honestly super impressed by the committee. They held 'dress rehearsals' for ... event, as well as office hours for any lingering questions. They also did ... making sure that everyone was on the same page. Here's the program for the

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

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  This post has been rattling around my brain for a few weeks now, like ... empty."]a rock inside an empty tin can.[/annotation] For the accepted, I offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to ... up early for school, took a nap after classes because I was too tired to work since I'd stayed up late, vibed for a few hours, then had to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  . We had some people come in the day after, so we rented a UHaul for the ... disarray for two weeks, but we decided to move its furniture around once we ... initiative and hop on Craigslist to look for one. As for my own room, I have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... , and as time goes on, it becomes easier and easier for Zuko to listen to

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  things. last year, i'd forget about nearly every prepset for [annotation ... opposed to last year. i look forward to cooking for myself every day instead ... worried about what my work ethic would be like after, erm, PNR for two

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that ... feature for your UROP by tomorrow. Cut the things that don’t matter and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  more could you ask for??? Here's what I've been eating in the past few ... for mustard since I didn't have any and...it worked, surprisingly. The ... tastiest dishes you can make for the amount of effort you put in. All it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... 't want to walk to places like [annotation note="i would die for a grilled ... one off Amazon for <$20"]accessible,[/annotation] and easy to use

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  for undergrad and grad students who are passionate about or practice any ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] creepy[/caption] 2019 Trip  For this Art Scholars trip, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  try to look for an internship, although several of my friends did. I talked to a couple companies, asked about which ones had opportunities for ... ; for a lot of them I just never heard back again. It seemed even more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  watched the flames grow, it struck me for the first time that I really wasn ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... deep of the Charles River. We enjoyed the view of Boston for awhile, then

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... character, and then post it on a fan page. But no, we wrote this essay for no one, but us. We did it for *art*.  In eighth grade, we had an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019