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  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  yapping from me! The rest of this post is all Andre's words.  I gave a ... me for, I was this year's Undergraduate Association (UA) president! As ... experience. For me, I quickly realized I chose the right community in Theta Chi

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  training. I went to gyms sometimes in high school — and nearly every day ... I met while backpacking in Italy showed me how to use the kettle bell ... podmates to work out together, she showed me proper form. Then off we went

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  , or move off campus. moving off campus didn't appeal to me since i ... for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... from Burton Third wanted to staple and move there with me, along with six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... would turn to jelly after every workout. My arms noodled out above me when ... you’re some kind of pro, but it was a pretty big deal to me, at the time

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was ... 't have Space Bags to help me clean up this mess. Too many time commitments ... ="300"] My sunday-saturday schedule ft. me having a major crisis

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  Kasow, who, after learning my name and who I was, had heard enough from me ... 't redirect me to youarenotblack.com again." You can see why none of this is ... get me everywhere I needed to go, and to an extent, it did. This turned

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  landing at Logan. The guy sitting next to us asked me what I was doing ... conversation he gave me his business card and told me to call him if I was ever ... campus to register for CPW. Along the way I saw this and nearly died

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  really made me understand what was so entrancing about computation back ... honestly a lot of fun – frustrating at times, but (at least for me) nowhere near as soul-crushing as distributed systems was. It helped that my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  . Trust me, everything is going to be okay eventually. You'll figure it out ... boyfriend is a grad student living near campus and I wanted to stay near his ... significantly. Calling people stresses me out, but man, does it get the job done

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  nurse? No, she doesn't want to get near your blood, God knows what kind of ... friend from Dartmouth was telling me a story about how she came home one ... excrement here* smeared everywhere. It doesn't get nearly that bad here, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  . I didn’t know what to do with myself or what was important to me ... that could guide me - only an emptiness that needed to be filled by ... guilty about when it brings me joy. I learn to value time to decompress

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  you had asked me why I was writing the book, I probably would have ... don’t know why the kidnapping on the news stuck with me the way it did ... near-universal surprise a little amusing. They’d ask how I’d done it, and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  and tightly wound up in my thoughts. this blog overwhelmed me because i ... packing i had a lot of thoughts about my time at this dorm bottled up in me ... me, and the culture that they had built.[/annotation] but, at the very

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  the main reason I decided to study physics was that it gave me intuition ... /no record, and a friend convinced me to take abstract algebra. in hindsight I ... , physics majors are employable! nearly half the physics majors in my department each

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

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  espresso, by Sidney Amos Paige: Nearly three years ago, I was writing my ... : Prospective students often ask me to share the most memorable essays I’ve read ... /early mornings, it was clear that the platform had consumed me. It became

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the ... me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . Something about their intensity just draws me in. “But no, I’m a Pisces.” “Oh

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me ... note="lucky me, though, they still healed. so what does that say about my ... classes I had taken at MIT, gave me a lot of prior experience. So, even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  world. I remember the days when my mom would ask 7-year-old me what I ... environment completely foreign to me and see how well I could do. I arrived at ... receiving my ticket granting me white privilege I got to read about the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... , Hopkinton: Mile 0 Petey drops me off at the start line. He takes a few pictures, hands me an extra battery pack just in case, and then tells me to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  possible too. Any more would have burned me out before the end, and any less ... semester stupid. Unfortunately for me, there is no overlap between the ... Assembly. All of which are time sinks, the first one measuring up to nearly

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023