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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can ... under any other circumstance.    Do I regret it? No, not at all ... ’ll pass my 5.111 final?”   “That’s not what I’m saying at all

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  , Maine. In total we drove (well, Robert drove; I worked in the back of the ... not like at sunset, and sharp shadows came out, not at all like the soft

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  and deal with horrible, horrible tech issues but miraculously worked ... was not my own, rather, it was one I was loaning from MIT. I contacted ... whole. I feel supported here. I'm honestly not surprised that people

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  comfortable writing this post my current view is that there is a lot of work to ... that most people do not fall into those categories, that my life is ... point it’s not something i worry about anymore. i know that i’m a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  unhealthy(?) way. Not really unhealthy, but I was drinking a lot of coffee ... working on a problemset with friends. It was about midnight, and I wanted ... of who I am now. Not like, in some crucially fundamental way (compared

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  won’t be in Cambridge at all. I'll be working a job somewhere, a job I ... come back for a phd, which I’m not currently planning but isn’t out of ... that yet) and seats full of friends you haven’t met yet. Not to say that

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do ... major or minor is not at all necessary to enjoy this class. I am to my ... classes are 12 units; however, this class had a comparable amount of work to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  problems fill me with doubt; I think, I’m not built for this. I’m not built ... in the back of my mind telling me that things will work out in the end

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  much time crocheting? I'm surely not crocheting out of boredom. I'm also not crocheting for practicality, because a lot of what I crochet is ... Complex, was overpowering, and the yarn I worked with took the form of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  the years and years of stories attached to each piece, may not get ... . but i now appreciate the amount of work that goes into a project like ... right now, i feel okay. not great, but at least i feel okay. yesterday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  to smile about and some not so-happy ones to be proud to have gotten ... actually worked!?!) 8) Went to many Bob Ross paint nights in the stud 9 ... not makes sense to me now, but I'm hoping future-me is going to have one

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  a playlist, and go out for a long walk. Your air may not be as crisp ... know it is, try not to obsess over your pending decision. Do spend time ... college experience if you want to and if you work for it. Out of fear of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  student-chosen area of focus within the HASS requirement that does not quite ... ” is not just a technical process but also a socio-cultural practice with ... fluency to analyze the tools they work with, and also new ideas about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice ... go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure ... work I walk by everyday. A place that I worry I'm becoming desensitized

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  amazing, it is amazing not because of some occult magick embedded in the ... worked out okay. In 2014, we denied another student, whom I'll call CT. I ... natural sciences, engineering and mathematics]. That's not really a thing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... my write-up and cleaning up my code. At 20:55, I uploaded my work and ... after that, at least not for a few weeks. And it's a good thing. But at

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  not admit students just because they have a sweet jump shot, and they ... ESPN and seen Tim the Beaver on a jersey? Tim, our not ... with shared interests, classes, and work ethics is invaluable. So maybe

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total ... did not say it was impossible.) Glamour shot of the East Campus ... not sitting in my room in East Campus as I type. East Campus no longer

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  last but not least: the abundance of information that is shared with all ... destroying the non-competition work ethic is prohibited by widespread ... over, do not panic. Our swimming requirement will have prepared you to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  , graduating or not graduating, ticket or no ticket.   Fortunately, not too ... , was the commencement speaker for our class. He urged us "When you work

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017