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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... no door painting for me that year. Or the next. This blog post is the ... accurately is very difficult, but drawing straight lines is much easier. (Note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  it is just as exciting as it sounds. 2) Classes start tomorrow. And I ... . The house is alive with chatter and laughter and excitement and it makes ... recruitment is essentially the process where potential new members (PNMs) come

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  faces and names. There is something cruel in watching one of your role ... matter how hard he fights it, his memory decline is inevitable. I hate seeing him the way that he is. I hate how he asks the same questions over

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  ! MIT is a pretty walkable campus — the walk between Next House (my home ... many classes, and one of the furthest east buildings), is 21 minutes per ... . unclear how true it is']cruft,[/annotation] one sent out this email

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... factor is that, despite taba in Tagalog meaning the same as the English fat, the connotations feel different. Being mataba is linked with being

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... : the micro-internship and the class. But even then, “having time” is a ... classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests ... . The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a ... that is a big component of what i look for in good friends. freshman year

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  . WHYYYYYYYY. Ok salty rant is over. I don't totally hate IAP, it's just that ... . One of the reasons I took a break last semester is that I felt like I ... lot of people relate to sad and angry, and D) not everything I post is

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  ![/annotation] Played too much SET! But summer is over; It is fall, and I’ve started ... of reach This is a post about feeling hosed and wishing it would go ... on this one"]square bins![/annotation] My room is 95% set up (save for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus. I am not an international student who the Trump administration is ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... ? Senior spring is supposed to be the best semester of college, where we get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  board, or on a calendar. I have screenshots of this below! Notion is very ... is due, the status of the application, any to-do items, the timeline ... colors and and symbols throughout the page. The pretty sky on top is a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and [annotation note="And I came anyway. I figured college is for personal growth as much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  did [annotation note="Humans are 70% water but Felix is 70% creativity ... know that the green building is named after cecil howard green bc i sure ... , [annotation note="wOw sO gEnErOuS but yes this job is quite excellent so thank

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  Computer Graphics, but it is unfortunately only offered in the fall. So, we ... process, but we are so happy we kept on persisting! He is a grad student in ... , because the language is pretty similar to python for the most part

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , almost like my innate daftness is an excuse for not being able to learn. In ... thinks that perhaps this is bigger than me. That perhaps MIT is bigger than ... them. They ask me about classes and how hard it is and what MIT is like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT ... going right about the sun is about to set. You'll get some really lovely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18 ... at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African ... . There is a very real and powerful emotional entanglement that comes with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... here is really like, and we’re open about both the good and the bad. That’s why our unofficial slogan is IHTFP, which means either “I have truly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  year because every week is an endless parade of job applications and ... whacky number scales: sometimes, the class average is a 40%. And you never ... we learned, but for now, my mind is overloaded thinking about itself

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017