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• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning ... other schools have this, but basically a week between finals and ... was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  over spring break i met a grad student. we were talking about why they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the ... juniors experienced less than a year of it. that's why being on campus this ... was oddly disarming; spending a whole day alone wasn't something i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  → macgregor august 2021: macgregor → ec (this post) as is tradition, here's a picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a different room now, because my previous room was a double, and only frosh have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my ... normal again. I was lucky enough to get a housing exception from MIT which ... know that we were actually living a countdown to a time when our lives

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month, maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  I live a five-minute walk away from MIT, so I pass campus often. It's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of ... that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things ... finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a dear friend on a Christmas tree farm. The other half of my possessions

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister and a friend as years went by. Freshman year was a shitshow. I could ... from everything you have ever known and loved and to settle into a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  A couple nights ago, Shayna messaged our very miscellaneous group ... two books over and over again. I love, love, love this series. I'm a ... blogger meeting I ran to Lobby 7 to meet with Emma so we could take a Lyft

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and ... ! they played Beyond the Sea, a song my dad used to sing to me as a kid, during the encore. my heart was so full made a cake for Bombergiving

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  with our newly enrolled class through a number of events over the next week. Tonight I'll be at a welcome dinner for students in FLIPOP, the new ... , I'll be at a diversity and inclusion conversation hosted by the Office

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  .) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a rough shape from personally wrangling with it for a little while, it'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  VHS tape on a high shelf and hoped I wouldn't see it. Jokes on them ... . Almost every summer, my sister and I tackle a new ropes course. Although I have never thought about it before while on a ropes course, I would guess

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose ... up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  If you know anything about MIT, you know that there's a lot of ... attend a reunion named after Pi (that is a class reunion 3.14-ish years ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  photos during the actual storm (I also thought I’d be fine with a sweater (which got soaked) and a dollar store umbrella (which broke)). Here are ... .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016