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  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound ... [/annotation] in something else I dunno — and preemptively held it up to anyone I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  background from GIRs (General Institute Requirements) and REST courses, and ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers." _______________________________ You may be surprised that MIT has a thriving HASS (Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... is home and nothing will ever change that. It was the new bloggers ... ’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• 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 ... semester, that MIT had parties like any other college, and that MIT wasn ... my registration, saw that I had six classes listed, and said "I know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  and Carry On 👑   [caption id="attachment_39722" align ... classes + training/practice (grey), psets + revision/studying (blue), and ... semester, and we talked about the MEng. At one point, he mentioned how I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  works out beautifully. And that no experimental evidence has ever disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors, LEDs, and other semiconductor devices – would not exist without our

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  me. every day is a grind, and keeping up with academics is about the ... advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  network with businessmen, entrepreneurs, and investors. Even the physical ... startup scene and meeting more and more influential people. The center of ... sides. After I gorged on the cheese and crackers (this broke college

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  about applying to our institution, we give your counselors and teachers ... fun and exciting event where all admitted students who come to campus ... soundcheck and Mocha Moves, one of our amazing hip hop dance groups, were

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus and West Campus, a distinction that, at least to me, always brings ... atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... Campus dorms) are more diverse and unconventional. Residents in this part

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what future technology and future societies can look like. I actually talked a ... computer science world. That being said, I've found myself indulging and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now ... , Baltimore/Washington, Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco Bay areas. If you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  tick tock tick tock notes about sunrises and broken doors and unfinished endings

  

  i was a bit clueless about spin states and terrestrial carbon sinks ... of delight and sadness, of triumph and melancholia; it is a fast time and a slow time; it is a time of midnight doomerism and late afternoon

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... school, and dreaming about MIT since elementary school, and holy crap I ... and started doing a terrible but energetic jig right there.) Hi there

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its ... economics, and am ready to embark on the next adventure: an internship in New ... general. Relief, freedom, and possibility overwhelms me, feelings that were

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  opened in 1970, and it basically screams "70s architecture"), but it's home ... . Laundry is $0.75 per washer and $0.25 per dryer. You can pay for it with ... owns and maintains a small exercise room for residents. This is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  2.009 LIVE BLOG 2025 w/ Kayode D. '27 and Veronica P. '27

  

  7:24 — HELLO WORLD AND WELCOME TO THE 2.009 LIVE BLOG!!!!!!!! This is Kayode, here with Veronica and Taylor, fellow Bloggers!! We’ll be writing ... presentation. And many go on to become real products, like the Avive AED

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • December 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  there. And while in various senses I think I achieved that to some degree ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I ... ." Regardless, it's 9:05am, and I am awake 9 minutes too early. I decide I will

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  do with as you like. Most doors have been painted and painted over who knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... the door had ever been painted. I thought about it on and off for all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022