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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  center of Quebec’s old town, but really it was more like a small apartment ... currently celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, that there had been a big parade ... performers strum until the strings on his bow snapped while the bar’s patrons

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  !) and also terrified (there’s 800 million freshmen and they are all 800 ... and this terrified in a humanities class. It’s essentially the ... , these burn boxes are sent to Professor Slocum’s farm. To be burned. At his

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  (Ariel S. ‘18 at University of Michigan) at an external team that was not ... school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin ... perspective in Mechanical Engineering, it’s at least not been quite so obvious

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  . Campus feels festive. We get to meet new people. There’s free food. However ... -shirts to books and toys. Clothing. This one’s the most challenging decision ... , you will have approximately 0 hours to actually do it. Nice things. It’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  around the room, highlighting each person’s strength. Everyone had great ... , condemning the play’s lack of intersectionality and outdated references. I won ... the event and the lollipops go every year to the local Cambridge Women’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  this post, but what’s included here is simply an obsessive analysis of my ... too early makes me hungrier the rest of the day, and there’s no point in forcing my metabolism to start up before it’s ready. Lunch or dinner

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  Lobster Incident, my friends, begins with Young Krystal’s fascination with ... really is just for the fun of it. But it’s a great opportunity to ... most out of CPW. While it certainly is a weekend to have fun, it’s also a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  it was hard not to forget that I had psets for a couple of days. Here’s ... as we could on the classroom’s massive blackboards, reaching a whooping ... Battlebots: I helped run this event for Arcturus, MIT’s autonomous robotics

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  signed copy from him! I really liked each week’s readings, and I felt like ... , and how Prof. Ed used its two readings (Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and Chandra Prescod-Winestein’s “The Disordered Cosmos") to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  . It’s a capstone class for Mechanical Engineering seniors, where the ... student and walk you all through my team’s process throughout the semester. Let’s start with my team: the Red Team. Somehow fate took all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things ... where I’ll be next year, but I like to think that’s part of the fun. I ... about mit I want to keep this post (relatively) short because again, it’s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  string together enough coherent sentences for much blogging.  Now it’s ... [annotation note = "now it’s January, and I’m finishing up this blog in the best ... of the time.   It’s funny. I have carpal tunnel, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  inspirations, and allowing me to focus on what’s for dinner. At the same time, I ... catering to other people’s tastes for so long that I couldn’t find myself in ... contrapasso governing punishments and redemptions. I found Dante’s works to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  professional disappointment, my husband’s perceived job security, my anxiety over ... but pandemic tissue hoarding during North Carolina’s "pollening" was a ... learned this, it struck me as deeply profound. (That's probably why it’s the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  procrastinating taking a HASS-S for sooo loongg. Every semester we would look at the listings, and would never see any HASS-S that seemed very interesting to us. But because taking at least one HASS-S is a requirement to graduate, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  unpredictable, as things usually tend to do here. Here’s the unfolding of my ... supervisor’s OneDrive account with the manuscript document she submitted, along ... back into reality thinking, “Wow, thank GOD that’s not me.” I was on my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  to blog about. Pi or tau? Pi. (If it's okay with the other person(s ... that I enjoy eating, that’s going to be hard. I also want to be better at ... tell   us about how something in your life is like that scene. There’s a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... might be able to apply on an exam. It’s just that now there isn’t often ... major, you think math is pretty cool, too. It’s nice doing math with no

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  entertaining sci fi films of the 70s and 80s, the following design strives to ... characterized by obesity and waste.   Designer: Larkin S. Model: Larkin S. Title: Offcuts Description: This dress was inspired by Larkin’s course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  interviewing applicants. It’s a unique and amazing way to stay connected to MIT ... right after) the deadline. It’s in your best interest not to be part of ... college interview. It’s perfectly ok to wear the same clothes you wore to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014