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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  lightning snaps Boston in two. Most people had already run for their Back Bay ... like nightingales. Content with staying dry but wistful for adventure, I ... problems fill me with doubt; I think, I’m not built for this. I’m not built

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

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

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been dancing for two hours. At midnight, the band said goodnight, but the crowd

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... science, so I registered for it as my [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... was going to last for, and the economy was steadily nosediving, and I ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I

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

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  like it's right there B: well for me it's more like B: a maze of switches ... A: i think i just have so much hate and resentment for myself A: that i've like, built up over the years A: for no good reason B: same B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two ... aren't mandatory, but for a lot of struggling students, they were

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  Content warning for hate crimes, anti-Asian racism, gun violence ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him ... friends with, said that he “had a thing for Asians.” When I ignored him, he

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  resolutions for this semester is to blog more so I figure it’s as good an ... this post, I was sitting in my room in New Vassar, waiting for the sushi ... "]serotonin[/annotation] is absolutely unmatched. I went outside for a walk today, which was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  and pay application fees, for many schools and not just one, in but just ... friends got accepted early. i felt happy for them, but it felt like token ... blogs. i checked the blogs pretty religiously for new posts every other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  -home labs (2.678: Electronics for Mechanical Systems and 16.851: Satellite ... the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron ... photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... with little time to learn the material and finish the psets for my other ... before starting the psets for the other classes, I rushed learning all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in ... academics, because for the first time in my life I wasn't a top student. I had ... redefine my values and stand up firmly for what I believe in. I had to learn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  so you can get a spot on the middle deck for the best views. (I arrived ... the bigger half for later. We trekked up a path and found a bench near ... hanging out there for a bit, we headed towards the other side of the island

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  last two summers for a summer camp over at bu, just across the river ... friends just having fun together, for what felt like the first time in three ... nice to just do that for a whole weekend without having to worry about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  because I've been a sourdough bread conoisseur for like a decade, that ... sourdough starter, like having a pet, is very good for me. But also a bit tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  through if it were not for this queen. It was like having a mwakenya (cheat sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a ... was waiting for someone to come breathe that rare air with her, and when

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  hours, too. Also, thank you for your lovely responses to my last post. I ... make custom cardpacks with this website for good inside jokes Settlers ... Codecademy Pro for the rest of the school year DuoLingo - now is a great time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  then it was call time for Mocha Show again. i knew what to expect this ... captains at all. i’m not mad about it though—i’ve never performed for a crowd ... love.    Monday: catch-up day…! due to my crazy dance schedule for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  into a lock for refugee camp latrines 14) Did a lot of organic ... -lining for the first time 26) Witnessed my old PI and bioengineering idol ... picking for the first time, had my very first bottle of apple cider and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  annoying because I have to get out of bed for a morning meeting >< The ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... plans for IAP and the spring semester, and talk about how their fall

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019