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• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... and then sticks around forever. At least, not for me. A social circle is ... hard to build the friend group that I craved. And for my first year and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  desire to craft policies that end up for the best, and the implementation ... ominous - “Important news for the Senior House community” - which then was ... House community,” and I felt that discrepancy did well to set the tone for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  life shoves you. *(Credit for this analogy goes to retired astronaut ... rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... .  I went to the career development office for mock interviews.  I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with ... and a 2,100 on the SAT. "He's a great role model for our younger kids ... field and right field for Post 283. "It's just a great fit for me all the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  and seniors) submit their resumes and get all dressed up for the affair ... ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading up north. Interestingly enough, the family friend that we were staying

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  , which she had picked up from obsessively scouring the internet for all ... architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district in the city, i’d read up on that area’s developmental history until ... was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate chinatown to free up valuable land near downtown but stopped because they were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  end that I wouldn’t sign up for anything similar again. I send a ... not raging against the machine, exactly, staying up late to write this ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  amount of Overleaf formatting can obviate the need for deleting content you ... finals to study for, i spent my time doing absolutely jack all with my ... official last day of classes for everyone, i went to see the movie Jujutsu

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  working all by yourself, you can work on it for a whole day and end up with ... for tumblr to this post, which I hope will shed some light on the ... students into steel (see last week's post for even more fire metaphors

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  those who make up campus are no longer physically present. One night in ... you to parse through the poorly-developed Wikipedia pages I linked for ... of toxic relationship with linguistics. For example, I did a UROP in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... have to be accepting of who I once was as much as who I am. I signed up

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  effort for something that didn't end up looking too great. I mean, I had to ... that you're doing for fun. It sounds really silly, but… it's pretty easy ... excuse for spending seven hours the other day listening and recording and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  choreographing 4-5 hours a day for the entire month in preparation for Mocha Show ... , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... incredible experiences of my life and I cannot WAIT for the next one. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... because I left them on read for too long last week, or perhaps something ... else. Variable weather calls for variable coping mechanisms (especially

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  . Ha. Ha. I took 18.06 (Linear Algebra) for about 2 weeks(?) before I ... ;   I was happy for at least a moment. At this point, I started scrambling for another arts/humanties class to take. I emailed at least 3

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  's largest arts festivals, filling up a street in Davis Square for a whole day ... blogged about events for book lovers, summer in Boston, places in downtown ... Squirrel Girl and Adventure Time comics, and he signed a copy of his book for

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

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  Somehow this semester I ended up taking all project-based classes ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my group's 6.S08 final project   Classwork for all my courses: 6.S08

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  -so-slightly-bulging firehose for so long that this fact surprises me. It's almost like I hadn ... .042 (Math for Computer Science) is a really interesting class. I guess the closest synonym for it is discrete math: topics include proofs, cardinality

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  . Something feels different for me—among the usual buzz of activity, reconnection to friends, and eagerness for a fresh academic term is a permeating ... fair happenings. But I’m not going this year. Tomorrow I’m off for an

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015