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• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... campus better than them? when i've experienced zero semesters at MIT with ... the sophomores who spent their COVID spring semester at MIT. i'm really

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  path of UROPing on campus this summer. I lived at home (about 35 minutes ... *written by a '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest ... survivor I am today. My UROP was in one of the biotech labs and this

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  As I look outside the long windows of McCormick Hall’s penthouse, soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it hits me: I’ve almost made it through two months of MIT! 60 long days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and ... Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations ... hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  get, a job, I learned a lot at the career fair. Many of the companies ... Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... inventoried all of this swag, which had formerly been occupying nearly 70% of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  and euphoria at the end of the long, dark tunnel. Me after 1st Project ... studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... long it’s been. If you’ve ever visited MIT, you’ll know this entrance at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  line at about 10:40 a.m., there were about 20 people ahead of me. Ten minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got ... :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  going to be brief -- the new freshmen remind me of bouncy balls and are all excited and happy to be at MIT... and they are full of questions, so ... into a discussion about the kind of person who's happy at MIT. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  instead of someone who's lost and drifting at sea, trying to find a way back ... stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the ... anything at all. All of these are well-crafted excuses that I’ve made though ... something sickeningly sour at the base of my stomach if I think too hard about

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  means for me; trying to get seven hours of sleep, eat at least two healthy ... precise. There are all sorts of random reasons I could give for my disappearance, drawn from the same set of valid reasons I give to my friends or

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  seemed to be simple. It was easy to identify what was at the top of the ... 's waiting at the top of them. The ladders seem infinite, and my path through ... Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  talk at length about my personal life online because a lot of the greater ... ) peace with femininity, or at least I understand better why expressions of ... . Despite my best intentions, a lot of things went off-course this semester

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge ... to turn in psets. Leaving the lounge at bedtime is the hardest part of ... really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Integration Bee If this were televised, nobody would watch the Superbowl.

  

  become terrible at completing this paragraph and start to wax poetic (instead of waxing my windows, which seriously need more waxing than whatever ... pressing tongue of February into a sticky-sweet memory, bequeathing cavities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  buildings at MIT have an even side and an odd side. Odd buildings are west of ... day of class. I know! It was terribly embarrassing. But I'm not an EECS major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where have I been for so long?

  

  balls to carry to goals with a "ball gobbler" of two wheels at the front ... Electric Mayhem. But the biggest time sink of all of these is MASLab, the ... with that name after Brian '08, one of my teammates, said that on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  finer points of life at MIT, we sat him down and had him help us with our ... freshmen dorms. At most other schools, all/most of the freshmen live together ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  the folks at the Annals of Improbable Research and hosted by Harvard and ... years of experience at MIT during Nobel week, I recommend getting there ... (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005