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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  -cool things they're doing up there. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="450 ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  , and really opened up. I played music in front of people for the first ... bad for me to show up as a transgender woman”. I pulled back as much as ... now. For better or for worse, everything about me has changed. I want to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  reach a lofty bar that you set for yourself. It’s a challenge.   ... you mess up, you’re screwed, no matter what. Mix that with high achiever tendencies, and that shiny bar you've set for yourself becomes the standard for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  . When I got into MIT, visited for CPW, and finally comMITted, the biggest ... , but their MIT -- full of friendship, companions for psets and for ... waiting for me. There was never any question about whether I would apply to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  and western music classes, searching for and finding and mashing up ... up for whichever classes you want as a high schooler i liked firehose ... events i attended four years ago cpwacc cpwacc, short for cpw a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  semester has officially ended and I can happily say I've wrapped up the most successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... semester and take three HASS classes and only one technical. This ended up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  depleted for several months. There's a lot of reasons, professional and ... MIT, I take pride in my own high capacity and drive for work. Being able ... has problems with the drudgery of work, but burnout, for me, is when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  So I woke up before ten today, which is pretty new and probably good ... fix that to something more normal but messing up by half ... someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I ... I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  the dorm for a nap. I slept until 8 o'clock and then packed up to study ... sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... deviations below average. After that moment it was just a constant struggle for

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  “CLAAASS,” now known as “Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and ... . Scheduling and Registration DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (for a formal overview, go ... lab course within their major, including HASS majors. For example, in 17

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  up realising my stomach was twisting, I called out instinctively for my parents. They woke up immediately, trailing after me as I leaned over the ... me that the part he hated most about throwing up when he was little was

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  another blog, so for now, let us get on with the content. Each class year ... merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my ... , for the most part, a good time, but sometimes it can be a bit tiring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my ... family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy ... means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... well-matched host for the weekend. Tonight, we had a meeting with the MIT ... a host for you, and they'll be in touch soon. There's no one standard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... for an extra creative touch, you can also go with the casual scresh, p scresh (for “pretty scretious”), v scresh (for “very scretious”), or

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  Blue Ribbon BBQ--though she's usually up for walking, Sam's Mom was ... retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think ... course, I forgot that this rehearsal was actually for elections and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  I grew up without any public transportation. The closest thing we had ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... at Chinatown with my SSP friends. I went up to Harvard Station when my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024