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• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  graduate school or working elsewhere. Do I miss the proximity of undergrad ... relationships. Like, who do I actually still keep in touch with? If I no longer have the shared context of MIT with somebody, do we still have anything

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  blinds do a terrible job at blocking the sunlight, but i don't mind, most of the time. instead of reaching for my phone like i normally do, i ... more data i've gathered since then, so i still have a lot to do. after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer’s block and I do not have to force-write posts about things I don’t care ... to read.  I am always evaluating myself on how I am doing. I am usually

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  complex, worse, more joyful, harder. But at its core, I do think that it is ... , compassion, curiosity and a desire to grow -- but no idea what to do with them ... 've changed in all the ways people usually do. I'm more tired, more jaded, more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  -blank: “Do you think you’re getting all of this because you’re a girl?” That ... show favoritism to girls, they were doing a terrible job at it. Aside ... argument that I didn’t do anything wrong so there was nothing I should

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  panic. How do I know what's right? How do I choose correctly? There's so ... MIT to lead me down one of these proper paths. Did I do it right? Did I ... here, I realized that I was wrong. That there are ways in which I can do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  fifth"]sixth graders[/annotation] at my elementary school would do a flash ... song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... couldn't do it. I think we ended up doing some boring song, proved by the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... on a skateboard, doing an ollie out of a giant fire behind him I ... there was in the responsive people gave, even if they didn't intend to do

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  " began with names and a handshake. where are you from? where do you go to school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... do work and inspire each other and stay in touch. but now it's people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  one with one thing on our to-do list, which was to get our fortunes read ... from New Orleans to Houston, and there's really nothing good to do in ... sitting at home with nothing to do for a couple of days was definitely a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  alums hack, punt, tool: 1. n old MIT saying about what MIT students do on ... Research Opportunity Program, as in doing research. 2. n an undergrad in a lab doing research. "So you’re the new urop?" 3. n the work assigned by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  whenever they do, it's an opportunity for me to venture down to 1E and hang ... . I take Spotify very seriously. One of the first things I do when I ... they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping or hang out. I'm doing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  kindnesses. what the living do. your quote collection kept you tethered in the ... you're terrible about setting boundaries, and when you do try to set ... walk all over you. the problem is that you know what you need to do to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  would burn out altogether. But there wasn’t much I could do about that, so ... ’re doing. I like organic chemistry.  We made cobalt complexes in chem lab ... class is nearly at the Terror. I’m doing the readings; I’m really glad I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  the negativity in my previous post, though I do stand by it, so this is ... just do research forever. Here's to moving forward. I met a lot of ... do feel as though I’m at MIT. And it’s been fun, and been better than I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  classes, emailing professors, doing random errands, the last thing I want at ... like to pset together over zoom, but it hasn’t really worked for me"]do ... , whatever, I’ll just meet people in the spring. I’ll do a sort of half gap

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  corona-exodus, which left us with a big question: how do we run science ... them, training volunteers, and creating Zoom links. How do you even ... doing everything yourself — it’s about making sure everything gets done

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  do you care so much? You’re not American anyway. But I am black. Racism ... with protecting them, and while doing the most mundane of things- jogging ... friends are doing ok. We are all shaken to the core and disillusioned by

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  behind this production, asked us if we could do the set design for this ... managed to do a great run-through under such circumstances, the content of ... having many side-jobs to pay tuition and consequently doing poorly in her

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  ="The attitude that your grades don't really matter and you should do the bare ... 21W minor. Apparently you can’t do that sort of thing in one day, but I ... for High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). You basically do really

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020