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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  , but another critic zooms in on a detail. You do know that your building ... still articulate our own missions? I could not do so in that presentation ... produce in studio and collect in a portfolio. And this is when I share them

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging has been so sporadic lately. That, and the Sex and the City kick I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  days where I lose sleep worrying about how I’m doing in school. My stress ... freshman into a community that I cherished so much. Now picture me, it is the ... accessible fun in the big city, and god, how I love impressionist art. There is

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  that a movie is technically brilliant yet morally repugnant? How can I ... Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... time? It's a tough one, I'll grant you that. But growth is painful. It

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  do. But the summer is a totally different beast. I've compiled some ... semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... ? Well, I'm still in Boston! After all the fun that I had last semester, I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially ... - with that in mind, when is freshman orientation? Is there a family ... students seemed to have a lot of control over their own lives. I liked that

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I ... considering my athletic ability is that of a peanut). And I cry with them when ... I had nothing to do and how it was such a waste of time. Now one day

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  I interviewed my roommate Dora ’18 about her day today and here is a ... my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... was very productive. (Dora points at how clean the room is) Look! I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  that there is a correct way to do college (and life in general): a neat ... /gym"]Z[/annotation]. In the beginning, I thought that this was amazing. If I was going to do ... along—two is greater than one, right? What I didn’t realize was that, in

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  have a really fun time in the process. I just have to remind myself that ... in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... together that weekend. I wanted to do those things so badly, but whenever I

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  is that you get a masters in just 1 additional year, but right now my ... about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... academia which is what I think I'd want to do with a PhD, but I'm 20 years

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... school math camp that i went to when i was in high school, is happening ... ! i do love my job. talking to students is great, managing a dozen

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  that, yes, the weather is nice but maybe a bit too hot and, yes, I guess ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... “dearie” and how can they know I’m a “miss”? … I take an advanced math

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  strangers into a cohesive team is rarely easy. I think the fact that teamwork ... realization I came away with was, “how do teams spend six weeks doing this?” A ... that fifth graders don’t get to do robotics,” I argued. “What makes the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be ... ,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  that means for you. I don’t know if there is any ‘how.’ I’m just figuring ... . Every test I’ve taken reports that my body is normal, just in pain. There ... listening to myself. One example is that I don’t always force myself to do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles ... staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  be cool, but they recently found that MD/PhD is a thing, so I still ... biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... semester is the first time that I am taking a course 20 class, so I cannot

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... those teen movies when..." and I'm living my life in hopes that it'll be a ... in person. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon him, but I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019