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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... the most part, two lanes wide in both directions, devoid of trees, lined

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... surviving this lull in academics, but i've developed a few coping mechanisms

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In ... through. So here's what this past year has looked like in a snapshot: 1) Started the year off in India, surrounded by family. 2) Did my very first

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of ... majoring in anthropology and computer science (spicy combination, I know! ask

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks ... 'd probably be under "it's complicated." i first visited mit back in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the other half was taking it in another room and thirty minutes into the hour

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month or a few at a time. I specifically sought out a summer internship in ... . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  really big blog post but it'll take some more time, and in the interim I ... year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... that year in Next House, and in Sigma Phi Epsilon, and with Toons, and a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  Roast, somewhere down in Somerville, because even when it’s not in our ... home, whether it lives on one day in sub-communities in other dorms, or large houses full of displaced friends, or in the hearts of everyone who

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  'm there often enough that I keep spare Cardinal gym passes in my wallet (as ... brunch with a friend in Palo Alto and then stop by the Stupid Shit No One ... students (you can read my trip reports for ISEF in 2015 and 2016). ISEF is a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 into several boxes. I left it all behind in Boston as I embarked on ... . "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for lunch. Still a work in progress -- I'll keep you guys updated.  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  I spent this past IAP at home in Central Pennsylvania. This is where ... weekends when I can. PA is colder than Boston, or it feels that way. In the winter the grass is covered in hoarfrost (иней in Russian, I learned) that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the ... something herbal or chemical—spicy and clean. Men in work clothes walk back

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  turn in the final paper or project, and/or was absent during the last two ... undergraduate education in the case of an undergraduate student or by the dean for graduate education in the case of a graduate student. The faculty member in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual ... day soon get your art on again. (Maybe when you graduate, the cynic in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  ’t that bad, but I’ve never been in a severe snowstorm in such a big city ... , especially when flurries swirl around lamplights in the purple evening sky, which never gets quite dark enough in the winter time. The snow reflects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015