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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... have included in an email to Next House, ranked in tiers from most to ... all of you in these trying times, With love and care, / With love

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  through air, to breathe clearly, to be awake instead of trapped in a dream ... readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... , and this post is for you. During the semester, mired in work and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area ... Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... explain, but when I’m on campus, I’m just less certain in my own sense of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... “flowers”, “regret”, and “gratitude” never appear in any context remotely ... common trope that appears in every other pop song about relationships , in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ended up going here, things after that would simply fall in place. My ... ’s Applying Sideways blog still remains, in my opinion, the most pertinent

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  in my dorm went and got piercings together. Their excitement and joy ... of them: Chameleon Chameleon is a body art studio located in Harvard Square. I went to Chameleon back in January 2019, bundled up in a coat

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  in my family we are cheap af. It is summertime in Denver. The ever ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in ... around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  else in my boot. I was quite certain of that. But I still needed to check. The women’s bathroom in Simmons shone with a clean metallic glow. I ... vitality. In my stall, I tossed the boot as far as possible. I also prepared

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a ... semester than in the fall. And it's not because I was less involved in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  way back in early September (yeah, remember that?) Imagine you ... dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... . Your excellent teacher is back home in sunny, hurricane-prone South

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  or if I was just ignoring them. I would get so engrossed in books that ... finish) in lieu of Purple Hibiscus and Unbearable Lightness, because last summer I was back home in Colorado, and also traveled a bit, which meant I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  their parent class (8.02 and 8.01 respectively) in a previous semester ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it ... , because you’ll forget otherwise. In fact, just schedule time for things that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  awesome time to be in, at, and around MIT. There's all kinds of art ... MIT150 art around campus seems to be in white. Could we have had some ... in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  accepted to MIT, I still clearly remember the day I received my decision. The morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... worsened my mood. I had gotten in to MIT. Now, I can't help but feel that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... a very bright yellow bag tucked under the seat in front of him - it ... research at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) headquarters in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... were greeted with was an absolute flood of more acronyms. In fact, I think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high ... impression of college was from scrolling on college websites, watching media

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  exist in droves—McKinsey information sessions are packed full, pre ... time in college: Not being involved in professional clubs. My sophomore year here, I joined a business club because I was interested in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... I can do in my lifetime is worth ten billion dollars, but I care about ... morally wrong choice. But how can anyone truly blame him for it? Back in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022