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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... something intangible—a relationship, an experience, a math proof. It ... Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  finally received an interview from a small start-up. The interview went fine ... said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber ... do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been ... guilty about it. I think I wrote a grand total of two blogs this past ... into a pretty turbulent time, then April and May bringing the usual ramp

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... was a gray day. Most days were gray that month. The pandemic had just

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... you want it to be. That most people don't actually take six classes a ... to drop a class, don't worry." I did not. I took six classes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  within the dance community at MIT. since then, a lot has changed! this semester, i started dancing on Kinematix, a Northeastern team, which means I have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  note="Which still feels crazy to say."]a junior at MIT[/annotation] I ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect ... really these developments and travels have been great and I've learned a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight ... down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we couldn't accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the ... just ask that you have a little patience.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• 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 / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  ordered a replacement from Amazon. I accidentally put Baker as the address ... Fred Desk, I waited an extra two days, and still nothing. At this point a ... . So I went to Amazon and complained and they said they would send a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 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 / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 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