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• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  a rising junior computer science major with the luck to have a good ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... stuck on a meal plan anyway. i just would stay home! i like my parents, i

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  cumin, and eggs. I added a jalapeño and a metric fuck ton of chili powder because, uh, why not? Shakshuka is great because it functions as both a ~uwu fancy brunch with the homies~ food and a ~god i've been eating shit

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  that the MIT Alumni association coordinates. It is a super cool ... alumni work at! There is a huge list of companies to choose from, and since ... opportunities is much smaller. The program lasts a relatively short amount of time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  planning on taking a class to satisfy the culture course requirement for ... break), i couldn’t register for the class. as a backup, i signed up for web.lab, a web development class/programming competition. i thought the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... calendar. [caption id="attachment_50016" align="aligncenter" width="300"] a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... it up! You've probably learned a lot about yourself while writing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , ethically, and emotionally. As a cofounder of FIRST, he was known for bringing ... have ever encountered: an attentive listener, a thoughtful respondent ... everything he did. I had admired him while a FIRST student in high school; when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend a lot of time in ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues taking notes [annotation note="hahaha I guess I should become a doctor :P

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  a plane in less than 48 hours heading back into the land of problem ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... a week meeting and greeting freshmen, holding REX events in B entry

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  important possessions into a suitcase weighing a little over 50 pounds, a stuffed backpack, and a very stuffed guitar case, i hopped on a 6 hour ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... other intermittent meals. ...baked, I wanted to give baking a shot, too ... 's been a few years since I'd been to either. My friend and I made the trek

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  This was me about a year ago: Even now, I remember what it felt ... hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... the signals changed. The sky was a pleasant grey, and my face felt the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool big events throughout the year like a Intercollegiate Valentines Day Ball and a Coming Out Ball to celebrate coming out day! Queer West Queer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  . This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It is a personal reflection on the keynote address on "Nerd Epistemology ... judge the impact of a speaker is through the audience reaction, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes I enjoyed and did reasonably well in was a confidence booster. Soon ... usually enter by submitting a resume. I didn’t have a resume, and when I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  feel increasingly like I need a really good post about all the cool ... . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester ... talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  prolific blogger/vlogger who graduated in June with a double-major in 7A ... , writing and editing science content for the show, but a few days ago she ...  as part of a science quiz series. I watched it and found equal parts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... be but life becomes a 6’ 7” professional basketball player towering

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i wasn't too thrilled about, i've finally reached the promised land, a ... .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016