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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... that, so they will live out the rest of their lives only on my hard drive ... 's thoughts on if a topic would make a good blog or how to structure a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... wouldn’t have discovered on my own, from [annotation note="a poem based off

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on ... than I could’ve come up with.   Since it’s celebrated on the ... if we really hadn’t any on hand — and the local Asian/Hispanic grocery

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  subcultures of mit, i do actually take on group identities and it usually turns ... close friend to understand how overreliance on a small set of people leads ... , but you should also be prepared to survive on your own if and when they

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  The November Rule is the unspoken rule we have on campus that ... conducive to functioning on your own. you'll also miss a lot of social and ... (deservedly so). I have a lot of regrets, clearly. so that's the rundown on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the [annotation ... be a good time to reflect on what a freshman fall over Zoom has looked ... notifications on, is exhausting. If I’m already online all the time, going to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  've got four piercings on my right ear, and two on my left[/caption] This past fall, just days after arriving on campus, a bunch of freshman girls ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  happened, I wrote about it on my Tumblr here. At the time, I had written an ... shape and we could probably go out on submission (send it to publishers ... out on submission until the following year. [annotation note="fun fact

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... know how fast you can lose everything you counted on and have your whole ... about the days where it feels like I'm trying to stand on water, and just

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in 8.01! and boy, did we mcHeckin SUFFER. we spent t h r e e hours on ... institution. the university that is on the lips and minds of so many people ... doing, but for a letter on paper that i believed would determine

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  that require action on my part"]zero[/annotation] responsibilities at MIT ... -mid-late-semester Stress that normally [annotation note="I really need to work on my posture"]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  flushing noise" or "there are vending machines on quite literally every ... hard because you were walking too slowly on the right instead of the left ... room with shoes on. So I try to adjust. I remember to not walk and eat

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... on track. I finished the GIRs, am in a super romantic relationship with economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  Boat Cruise event. We're at the World Trade Center in Boston, on the dock ... !!) Currently, “UH-OH!” by Frances Stark is on exhibit there, involving a lot of ... what I was working on, I said Thermodynamics, with the pset pulled up on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was ... exploration. Many on hall felt free and ready to mingle, and went out every week

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... on. There are several pages like that, all stapled together ... mostly, I was on top of my problem sets. There was a funny incident, where

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  -and-growing conference centered on removing the barriers that keep women from technology ... issues to some extent (being the only girl on my high school robotics build ... enlightening to see how these issues played out on a larger scale - as well as

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  with pikan and 5w alums, one of whom sent me this paper on why bubbles ... , incomprehensibly massive on a personal scale yet in turn cosmologically insignificant. (I blame it on Yan and on ultra-dense social subnetworks encouraged by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014