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• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  the first 90 seconds. Before long, one of us (me) succumbed to our (my ... well for me! I accumulated vague impressions of the dorms, some clubs ... more than an hour or two. And that worked perfectly fine for me at CPW

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  Guadalupe with me). We traveled to other cities like Barcelona and Sevilla ... 'm low key worried my stick figure has already outclassed me, but hey, all ... part just been me figuring out that I can reach out to others too 👉👈

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  world that Tartt created in the book, and the ease with which is sucked me ... living, breathing evil–Jemisin’s writing style made it hard for me to stay ... language. I like texts that make me work for their meaning, and this was one

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  years before me. In my case, that’s 10th grade, right before COVID hit ... hit me that I’m now a college student. Not only do I have a bunch of ... become deeply confuzzled as it suddenly hits me that i’m actually in

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  One. It was a lie that made me choose MIT. I was told, and I believed ... over somewhere else. When people assured me that I wouldn't be spending ... feels like something forced onto me. That I happened to be friends with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  particularly good for me, but was definitely more of an exception than a rule ... .43). You have unlimited guesses, and that day, while it took me 182 tries, I ... #14 took me over 300 tries D: (I've also witnessed people get it in

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  "kuya reggie" or "kuya john dave". and people in lower years called me ... like one of the few things that tethers me to my culture. so, miss ko ... taking time out of their day or staying up to talk to me. that's anumang

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  Prat Pavam, who temper my heart. YISUN Atru Vyam. Forgive me for this ... Australia? Wait... the road is yellow. Oh HELL no. If you ever threaten me ... ache. Blogging Advice For People Exactly Like Me (5222 words). Continuing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  got switched to hard mode for me after November started (and no, this ... 8.01 pset luckily saved me some sleep that night. My ankle and heel ... disappeared after elevating my foot while sleeping like the doctor told me to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  ’re me, [annotation note="not that you need quiz bowl experience to enjoy ... a source of academic knowledge that might help me with my courses and ... fun. If you've known me long enough, there's probably been a time where

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  think that just encouraged me to fuck myself up? r: yup m: i’m kinda ... no plans i'm so lost p: same, college really changed me _____ m: i ... you’re the second person to say that to me today all mit students share

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  assessing forecast quality, working on this research has really helped me ... ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... . trust me, though, that it has things to do with weather forecasting

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a ... mitigate it. This time, however, it's not clear to me what the source is. I ... . one of my friends disagrees with this claim and keeps telling me that i

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  first week back hit me like a train -- I had a non-MIT writing project I ... historians being dramatic. And the other part of me thought of this emperor ... 's not like knowing this will matter to me for the rest of my life. But on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  , but it lets me call my parents from 10 to 11 before my house gathers for ... class day for me, so it eases me into the week. In the mornings, I ... last me a few meals - maybe some pasta, or a chickpea stew, or curry. If

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  "]sleep,[/annotation] but lots of fun.   Allow me to explain from the beginning, though ... sunrise!![/caption] My uncle met me at the airport in Moscow, and we drove ... three days of their arrival. I’ll admit that this makes me uneasy. The

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  later on in my high school It seemed to me a little cruel How the right ... giving me stress because I’ve had a hard time applying the formulas we ... like “full breaks” to me — behind it all, I still have the stress of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  !!! (unintelligible excited noises). Imagine this scene: young me (aka me from three ... is really interesting because it lets me formalize what I know about ... barely legit lmao (as in, it’s not a pursuit for me at all), but I just

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just ... around to make this – Notion was able to reorganize the table for me when I ... me. I love that I can view my work in so many ways. Notion has helped

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  1) Start a major Somebody once warned me joining the military would ... 's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... tired. It took me all of sophomore fall to learn that difference. I was

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019