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• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  behalf? The interesting thing about this question is that we often get ... answer is always the same: "Whoever can write most compellingly about you ...  when they should have taught you. It is indeed very common for letters to come from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  , the thing that they do most is rehearsal. my first few rehearsals were ... -to-five and complaining about how hard it is to land a decent job. and sometimes ... how so much of what i'm doing came from just watching others, but it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  never find my way back. Life is so much easier when there’s nothing that ... class is nearly at the Terror. I’m doing the readings; I’m really glad I ... quart of ice cream apiece, so the freezer in 4W is half-full of only ice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  past 5 years so it is definitely a steep, steep learning curve and I ... they are mundane to show you what life is on a day-to-day basis at MIT

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  still confused during my chemistry lecture because what even is the difference between an alkane and an alkene! Nothing had changed. My brother is ... sibling. This may be because he is seven inches taller or has 500

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... ="aligncenter" width="400"] every piece of red text is something I am doing later than I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  vivid memories from childhood is nearing the finish line of the end of ... tune of the first Attack on Titan theme, which is still on my running/athletic hype playlists because it is a BANGER. Other than that, though, I did not

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  description is below: This class exposes students to the study of history for ... list of short, optional readings related to each week’s sessions is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  me: is this my fourth semester? can you explain that to me? my mom ... ! There is a lot going on, obviously. I could write a lot of posts. I could ... think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of ... brain is just like this, for whatever reason, 2) I will have to do some ... that things have gone the way they have. The world is online for the time

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  "]stifling[/annotation] long island household. the game's release is almost prophetically ... march 10th, i was trying to learn 1612 by vulfpeck, which is as simple as ... fios customers on the phone from home, is done with work. [annotation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  MIT community for a weekend."]which is like Splash but for middle ... Assassins’ Guild wiki: What is LARP?']a LARP[/annotation] run through the ... .']Live-Action Mafia,[/annotation] which is another club I’m involved with, started on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  -floor lobby -- or, I guess, there was a fancy portrait. Now there is a very ... the lives disrupted by climate change Tarnished Horizons is intended to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  we see is a building. A huge, windowless, cylindrical building ... around it are aged brick rectangles with fancy window frames. But this is ... like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we ... you. But mostly, you were confusing July. Senior year is coming up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  . Teaching is an exercise in both design and effective communication. I love ... It [program description] MIT CodeIt is an outreach program which aims to ... these programs are volunteers and work directly with students."]This is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in general is a challenge, because you’re knowingly putting yourself in a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  home last week over Thanksgiving Break. Boston is amazing, but there are ... . This is a popular space for student organizations to advertise events ... nine "entries" labelled [annotation note="Note that there is no 'I' entry

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  A Monday in the Life So many to-do’s, so little time.

  

  getting anything done is really just remembering to actually do it, and I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the ... parents are sketched out by how hardcoar East Campus is :P). But any of us ... activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018