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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  're scared of just showing up to events. Different strokes for different folks ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  we gonna use it for?" It turned out that her room in our apartment had too many windows for it to fit on any wall, so it ended up in the living ... this whiteboard for everything. (We're probably a little too proud of it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... so on. There's The Tech for that. But sometimes, the true stories of MIT students end up creating a change, even if that wasn't what the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business ... , clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science Essay class. I caught up with the bright green track jacket walking ahead (my friend Eric

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock has swung the wrong way, and I can barely pick up my apple ... close to ready, I was tired already. I took a nap. I got up and tried to ... home, and tried to work and it didn’t work. I ended up spending a few

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ) for just these reasons and here I thought I would give you a brief description of each FLC and 21 Reasons YOU should join ESG! (Source for all FLC ... .'s Blog Post for more information. Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) is similar

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  catch up for a bit. I also interviewed three other people for another ... enthusiastically, and we set up a time for that weekend. I was so nervous about the ... and our majors, colleges, and years. We ended up talking for two hours

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  excited for everything that I have lined up! This sort of breaks down into three parts. Classes I'm super excited for my classes this semester (and for the rest of my MIT career, honestly) because I'm finally done with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  heart of the class. Teams of four, or three in my case, come up with a problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... problem. Zero hand-holding exists. We come up with the problem, users and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... is having! This will be nothing too crazy, but it is for sure something ... story short I was gonna ASE this class and then missed the sign-up

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  i have no less than three different drafts for blog posts stewing ... up to a truly unbearable amount, but there would be gaps to breathe between all the work. this semester, i think i've become a grown up kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  -- but wow, did it end up setting the bar high for every school I went to ... friends I made at CPW came up and talked to me, for which I am eternally ... Students' Weekend. Admitted high school seniors flood MIT for 3.14 days and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  would hold it up for his inspection, and attempt to balance the plane on ... studying for a 5.60 exam coming up and my friend Nolan Kruse said we should ... sometimes say that I judge people for a living. While I had no formal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  was dealing with things. I originally signed up for [annotation note ... "]Maplestory.[/annotation] I still signed up for 18.01A, though, thinking that since I had a ... semester—I didn't have too much late work to make up for and I finished

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  learning how to cook and bake [cause i signed up for only cook for yourself ... me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... store for me. This Saturday, I officially move to New York City. I have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  expressly intended to be published on the internet for thousands of people to ... and I actually think they stand up better than my MIT application essays, but I guess that's not saying much :P Some bloggers end up putting up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  opinions about how music “should” sound, you end up spending a large number ... from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... for the sake of complexity or theoretical significance simply doesn

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / CPW

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

  

  ’ve done a pretty bang-up job. We’ve got TONS of fun and interesting events filled with all kinds of MIT students in the line up! I think I can speak for the MIT community when I say this: I really hope we do right by all

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

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  for all my friendships has been staying up to talk until 7am (helps that ... hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  leads the vision for the production. During the initial prod meetings, I had to advocate my vision for the play and inspire the other designers ... Gwendolyn’s hair be up or down? Does each actor fully understand their

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014