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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  myself I am a victim when really I'm the perpetrator? It couldn't possibly ... isn't meant to be an "Oh non-MIT people just don't get it" in a snobby ... -MIT workplace sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm far too opinionated for my own

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  guests confirm. Choose a date and enjoy! "BUT I'M NERVOUS..." Get ... Organic Chemistry is notoriously hard. But what isn't hard is having ... and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  're a...junior? Me: Well, I was. I guess I'm a senior now - I only have a ... doesn't allow for a whole lot of off-campus adventuring.) I landed in DC ... ...like summer. Like a real vacation. Spring break doesn't count as vacation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  because she's a cockapoo. That's not to say Butterstick doesn't stay busy ... a piece of lemon cupcake. Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks? ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  lot of fun. I don't know why I'm even posting this picture as it ... So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying ... Match School and getting stuff ready for the upcoming school year. A lot

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and ... salt-free kind, and I'm not a fan) Third entree: Plantain crusted

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  this generally doesn't make a difference, because procrastination doesn't ... just a freshman, I'm not entirely sure how the upper-level courses ... . Yes, you may be getting a C in Physics because you just can't visualize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  physics freshman year, so that worried me a bit too. Like actually, I’m not ... me isn’t sure if I have the motivation or will to even do that. I’m not ... -  Well, maybe it hasn’t impacted the last one, but it’s been a lot of food

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  deeply, and I don't think that is a rare sentiment. In fact, I'm starting ... .02 Physics E&M. I hate this class. If I will ever drop a class, it will be ... about it soon. 9.00 Intro to Psychology. I don't show up to a single

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one ... 've gone to a medlink, if it was worse. how much worse, though? i don't know ... asking for help. go to mit medical. if i wasn't going to go to a medlink

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  've really improved with practice!" /] Monday I'm lucky that Monday is a slower ... . If I'm feeling up to it, at lunch I'll cook a new batch of something to ... mornings. And then I'm all zoomed out, but I eat a quick dinner and go to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is ... a lot of cool stuff to show off in the near future. I didn't think I ... was working for the Game Lab? I don't know, but I'm excited to be

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I am very tired. And I don't think that I'm ready to go quite yet ... fields that I'm really passionate in. But, I have a lurking feeling that I ... . Call it self-care. Twitch offered me a job on Thursday, and I think I'm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  of us. Wait until you apply for jobs... then you don't even receive a ... a bit annoying - can't corporations spare the two minutes to write a ... /hoping/moving on independently. Like a delicate new relationship, you can't be too

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  post for a month now, so I didn't want to rewrite, but it felt weird to ... . Tell myself that the solution isn’t apathy. Find a goal. All of these ... sink in. That is a problem I didn’t touch on enough in my original

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They ... mother shifted a few feet back and carefully positioned her camera. The boy

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  Four years ago, I started to apply to colleges. Four years later, I'm at it again. :-o When I was a young one in kindergarten, I thought the ... by the picket fence and little "Bryan's" running around. Right now, I'm

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  council of strangers. And now I’m climbing a mountain (as the metaphor goes ... didn’t refine my short answers for hours or give them to a second party ... -don’t-know-if-I-can-science-but-my-gosh-I’m-gonna-try creative types

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  good at things, and I don't doubt that. My friends say I'm a good speaker ... understand because they're smart. And you're stupid. And you don't have a shot ... don't quite know. There's a moment, in particular, that has stuck with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to ... really lucky I did, because I didn't get a job offer until two days before the deadline (anyone who didn't get a job offer by the deadline didn't

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005