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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  In the rush of finals and the end of the semester, I've been losing track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on December 22 after my last final, drove home from the airport, and fell asleep

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... closet, playing a video game in my room. All the hangouts and trips and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week ... of a flower, the people of my orientation group seemed to blossom.  As ... sorry not sorry']they didn’t ask for help nor prompt the discussion at all

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too ... arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  my problem list weird brain things

  

  the hours i've spent in bed recently have added up, pointing to one ... recently for the class of 2024, and i swear all the sophomores were dropping ... they no longer display that data on the covid dashboard. (publicly, at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 8, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  ! clearly gotta start off the blog with this message _____ r: so how does it feel to be back in the city m: kinda weird it's nice because i love nyc ... so directionless like i’m in the middle of a field and there used to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  One. It's the first time I'm seeing Sean in three months. He's the person living nearest me whom I've known for the longest—I think we've been friends for four or five years now. The first observation he makes upon

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

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  without my future dark green double-canopy umbrella. I got lost in the ... Hall has a step at the entrance. Don’t trip over it. Tomorrow you should come to Meet the Bloggers so that you can meet us, the bloggers, and you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the world gather for the first time together in one spot to go up to random ... IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!! Undergraduates just got their prefrosh

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  love this show, current favorite along with The Big Bang Theory and Top ... , after all, some time away from the internet might be healthy right? At first this is no big deal, but then the Friday after Christmas, I find my

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  starting from the last time I blogged, I think I'll start with where I am ... at MIT, but usually isn't the focus of the Course 7 classes I've taken ... 't think I'd enjoy learning about cells and 2) the pre-reqs are

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  Communications and Special Projects — I am doing more writing than ever, but the ... tactics as I explored a world that somehow got larger the more I explored it ... — '] playing Elden Ring on a dex/faith build: small, fast melee weapons with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... believed. at that point, i completed the introductory math courses i needed ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there ... so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... things done. you seek the familiar, but are also great at going with the flow and rolling with the punches. you're either a morning person or have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  the streamer world because I find the notion of livestreaming ... over at his place for the weekend. For those who do not know, Twitch is ... actually big back then too but I think this is around the time where the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a pleasing smile. These days, I see the term “beautiful” used quite often

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non ... . Last spring, I tried taking 18.901, Topology, but the first class was...interesting. Due to some technical mix-up, the vast majority of the class (40-ish

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  as i've previously mentioned on the blogs, sophomore fall is wrecking me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020