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• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the ... a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  I’ve been hesitant to write a blog -- especially one that pertains to ... struggling through Zoom, right? And I drafted a long thing about having chronic ... . Every weekend, I think, “This week we’ll make a schedule, kid, right? This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... being curled up inside with a blanket while, outside the window ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make ... graduate by getting an internship at a firm that would be likely to extend a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... colored pen, looking out the window at a Cambridge street below. Ambulances scream past, sometimes five in a week, and my computer, hearing the noise

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... operating as a remote community. Even though your first semester at MIT will

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... bother fixing it since my motherboard is a goner. it took about six ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we ... same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... accomplished after a year of Pass/No Record. It also was refreshing because I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... so hard sometimes Be calm Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid ... , hidden by our 13 year old selves, was an atrocity. A persuasive essay about the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... about 6.033, being with a community of friends i lived with and saw daily ... move out. by friday, when i left, 2 east was a ghost town, stripped and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me ... all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  Last semester, I took 18.100A (Real Analysis) with Professor Choi ... class a tad bit overconfident and not as concerned that the class would be ... , cite a theorem, and turn it in. Well, that is exactly what I did, and I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  below first. If you can’t find an answer here, leave a comment or feel ... submit the form, even if you don’t have any updates for us. (Do you sense a ... Chemistry HL 97 Japanese A- If your school does quarter grades: Biology A, A

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your ... course, graduation), and often, they make the game a lot more interesting

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... this trip to a) explain why I might be uncharacteristically quiet on the ... opportunities and events, and c) illustrate the bicoastal life that I (and a lot

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  through, and it's a sunny Fahrenheit 63 as I type this on Sunday afternoon ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital ... nine entries, A-J (minus I because it's ~imaginary~), in a highrise stack

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  airport we quickly stopped at a grocery store for food and the hotel to drop ... . (PS the airport was super cool and I saw a Dreamlifter in real life and ... right next to an aircraft-carrier-converted-into-a-museum with some dope

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... coding, or "incoding". she's a fulbright fellow and a rhodes scholar, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017