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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard. My friend taught me how to lift weights, and my extracurricular commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  I was taking a look at my calendar for next week, and I thought that ... I’ve been at MIT, take a look at my Google Calendar, and give some ... about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... my calendar. I have class from 10-12 and then the 18.02 exam from 2

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  than me >:("][/annotation] Course? 14 and 18. (In which I usually ... 6 is electrical engineering and computer science, course 18 is ... , 14.73, and 18.022.[/annotation] People usually can only tell what 18

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make? And isn’t it presumptuous of me to assume someone else’s underlying

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  . I’m surrounded by pamphlets, business cards, cute bookmarks and postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp ... loft bed where the wall is white and blue and red, though not in any sort

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  hi internet! i took my last final this morning and am now done with ... about my semester. classes i only had one final this semester, and for ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  scene and the state of your company's competitors so you can mention this ... calculating!!! State assumptions. At the end, critique your number and say ... software engineering or not and it was a really difficult journey but I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  valleys and mountaintops alike with a sharp, consuming pink and rivers grow heavy and silver with fish. The air is warmer, though not warm, and on ... attention. My summer at home, before and after Alaska, was mellow. Restful

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  called 21M.299: World Music Studies - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys. I wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  much about myself, the world around me, and others throughout those past ... during my sprint. I've spent this past semester doing so much and learning ... commonly shared feeling among a lot of the students here at MIT, and maybe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... preference. So it partly referred to the school and partly referred to ... name and I was too lazy/uncreative to think up a new one. It made a lot

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  Survivor, and watching cartoons on Saturday Mornings. I miss Steven Universe ... [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... writing and editing this, I realized that I don’t really miss applying, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  Photos and scroll through all the photos I’ve taken since August 2017, just ... dream. And sometimes, even in spite of the photos, I’ll still wonder if it ... , they seem to appear in flashes way more frequent than I was used to. And

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  it completely. Anxiety will explode if you do nothing, and believe it ... really solid leads and active discussions, and everyone is being so helpful ... late! Communication was bad on both ends; you’ll get it done. And the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  climate-change-aggravated heat of summer and the depressingly long winter that numbs both fingers and souls alike, we only get a few short weeks of ... take on the color of sunlight and fire, blue skies blow friendly breezes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  taking your calls, receiving your emails, setting up interviews and writing ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and ... . There you will see the name of your EC and the best means to contact them

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  major metropolitan areas in the United States) and it was 80% white. After ... . Where I’m From I am from paint smears, From pencils and paper. I am ... morning. I am from leafy bamboo clusters swaying above me Tall and slender

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  Continuing my last entry with even more tales of what my friends and ... provide repairs and basic necessities to homes of impoverished families in ... help us out.' As I stated earlier, I will be staffing as an intern at LAW

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008