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• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  miss? I miss being able to eat a Huge Wrap from this eating place at school that is known for them (however, I was at school 2 months ago and ... turn the first piece of paper, and I have NO IDEA what I am looking at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  stunning. Too stunning at times, which made it feel almost unreal. Back home ... day, I felt even confident enough to dare and hold a bunny in my arms at ... E pumpkin carving competition, where teams competed for a prize. At first, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  drips of the night, chatting away. I remember sitting there and looking at ... at a late night conversation, we were [annotation note="In a healthy ... unsafe at parties" versus "She sometimes is very sensitive and we have to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... rejoicing. We eat lunch at a fairly new ramen place outside of Central Square ... far too academic far too quickly, but somehow it doesn't seem so at this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  humanities major at MIT. So I thought I'd wrap it all in a neat little ... fully pursuing the computer science degree at MIT? Am I "giving up" or ... summer after, I worked at Microsoft as an Explore intern where I did

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... . How can a college class bring me to tears just at mentioning it? Shame

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  Caroline P., but all my friends at MIT call me Powers (which is my last name ... name that no one at MIT uses for me, so I changed it.  Throughout high ... changed over the years; at first, it was for health and fitness goals. Then

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  weeks ago) is sitting at her computer, trying to choose classes, looking at course listings, and suddenly. She realizes. That everything is ... convey my point, I present to you the not-at-all-exhaustive and not-at

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  's response and the new reality of being an MIT student during COVID-19. At ... approach ultimately had to cancel their plans to bring students back at the ... , it seems like universities keep announcing plans at the last minute

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  student with some close friends at Harvard! In Part 1, I discussed how cross-registration helped me make friends at Harvard and how our friendship has evolved since ... previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  Shuli answering questions about life at MIT. It was a surprisingly ... , aka attitude, at certain times (point the antenna at the ground communication station when we want to communicate, point the camera at the ocean

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe ... time that I've been here at MIT. And change, of course, isn't bad. I ... they will be. I'm amazed at nearly every single person at MIT, but there

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  This past week was probably the worst I've encountered at my time at ... Musical at 10PM, heading to bed around 1 after watching some dumb You ... (the best High School Musical, obviously.) I slept at 2AM that night

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  my alarm goes off at 8am, and i turn it off in probably enough ... mine, smiled, then looked at me with a serious face and said simply ... like aikawa-sensei can."]late to class[/annotation] at this [annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  students' weekend or day I had been to. I didn't know what to expect at all ... exploring a new city on my own (I'd always been picked up at the airport before). There are plenty of events for parents at CPW, and lots of them do

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... saying goodbye to my family at the airport. As expected, there was a show ... wonderful concept to experience. Also, walking back from dinner at Harvard

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead ... shouldn’t have taken me that long to do so. The deans at S^3 understand that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we ... Morticia, specifically at this moment. 10) The program of Ignite, the very

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  importance in my life and at MIT. We all talk about a lot of stuff happening ... lives, even if they live an ocean away. I call my mother at least once a ... skills like doing laundry, cooking, and taking public transportation at a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like ... profound or at least informative on the subject. But the truth is, as a ... enough things around campus. But at the same time, I didn’t feel inspired

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017