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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New ... having revisited the movie in my first month at MIT, the themes were stark ... , researching potential classes I could take, looking at majors I knew I would

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all ... comprehensive list, but there should be at least one useful tip. Think of this ... I'm a Project Manus Mentor, you may even see me at an orientation or

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  magazine hand-out at the student center, but this year, the board chose to ... arts at MIT. Put together over the course of the year by a team of ... . [caption id="attachment_89596" align="aligncenter" width="634"] mit gala at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at ... in mind.   doing more stuff Everyone I’ve met at MIT has an attitude of “just do it”. “Why the hell are you psetting at 4am?” “Dunno, I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  at home or on campus relaxing, doing a micro-internship or a ... ="origami club at MIT"]origaMIT[/annotation] meetings. I am also trying to get an ... . ’25: My IAP is split in half: I was at home before January 14th, and on

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  I took two classes at Harvard! I wrote down my first impressions, and ... characters and setting.  I also met another MechE student at MIT who writes ... of the readings than I have at any MIT class. However, they also graded

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... conceptually. This may be for a few reasons. One may be that [annotation note="at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  dominate my every interaction. Even at my happiest, there was still this ... this year when I walked into New Vassar dining hall at its peak hours ... at me, pinpricks on the skin. "God, why are all these people fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  , he adds"]football.[/annotation] There are a lot of these and at the ... cities we could remember at 3 in the morning. At one point, Jonathan was ... cities. Against my protests to get to 800, we stopped at 25% as we had

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  ="alignright" width="300"] The view from my window at dusk. I like knowing all those ... , let me assure you, it is completely impossible to avoid this at New York ... 're just--" (looking at phone screen) "Haha, yes, I see Sam's belly. No I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  's another thing I can't bring myself to care about, at least, care about ... square dancing at Tech Squares every week, which is about, I dunno, walking at a moderate pace for maybe an hour or so. I'm not a fit person. My

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in ... focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... ! Covid precautions at the time mandated that we reserve 30 or 60 minute slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... (very, very important) just the fact that you’re not at home anymore and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... May. Spoiler alert, we were not back by May. At some point in April, it ... . At some point in this time period, rumors of what MIT's fall plans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... replace it with "better" foods. I also wanted to try my hand at baking since ... to try my hand at an omelette. After watching Binging with Babish

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... -years take"]8.01 [/annotation] tutoring, but I haven’t even looked at the Pset

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at ... prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent ... Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019