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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... note-taking. Midweek finds us gathering in a lounge and trudging through the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  world works in mysterious ways. Throughout this past year, I’ve blogged a ... while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... difference being that in the spring I took an extra math class. This makes for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  . Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip ... today. (In fact, I’m starting this post on a plane from Boston to Las ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  , sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion ... Society of the Spectacle.' (1967) Unless otherwise credited in-image, all ... .][/annotation] [caption id="attachment_65325" align="aligncenter" width="768"] 1. In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  -credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in ... up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... experience in 18.100A, Real Analysis, but didn't enjoy 18.06, Linear Algebra

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Tier Listing My Classes i may have got this idea from tiktok

  

  I mentioned this in my last post, but I'm graduating soon! At the end ... realm of cruftiness. So, in the name of going out strong, I'd like to put up a post every day from today until Friday, totaling 7 days in honor

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of ... in the downstairs fridge, which prompted all of us to start sorting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  did not read them all in the hours between 12 am and 3 -- feeling ... against except my future self in 9 am class -- it felt sort of disingenuous ... that would decrease one’s happiness (think living in a pandemic, taking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  then feel guilty about it later. There's no in-between. The issue is that I haven't yet found a rhythm that works for me in terms of finishing ... turn it in ten minutes before it was due. Like...where is the middle

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  transfer students who aspire to enter MIT in 2021."]coming application cycle ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline ... week, the ACT announced disruptions as well. In my last post, I affirmed

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called ... admissions officer on duty. If you emailed, [annotation note="In fact, she sent ... school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  I spent winter break in MIT. I thought I wouldn’t be alone. After all ... finals week, and by Christmas Eve, most of the people living in our hall ... , even in the middle of the day. There wasn’t any classes, or square

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I kept my composure until I didn’t. Nothing in particular triggered ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... ’t the same person I was at the end of September. In September, I wouldn

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  .0001 (Intro to Computer Science Programming in Python) — real talk. aside from AP Computer Science, i didn’t do any coding in high school ... THICC 5/5 cannot be described in words 😩 (lol MIT is not a bad place to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  There are many things in life that require you to have the ever ... . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... and walking, I traveled through God-knows-where in Cambridge and Boston

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of ... appreciated. In the next week or so, I’ll be starting my job as a residential ... combination of R,L, and C circuits possible. I am in the process of learning La

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018