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  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about ... after their junior years. A professor at the university where Asia was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  a few PE classes offered in person this fall, which I was NOT aware of ... In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... borked the 30s. In my defense, there were certain ~ points ~ in my MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  anxiety.   In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... psychotic or clinical depression (at least in the ‘90s, when “anhedonia” was probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I ... first programs in Python, Java, and C++. It delivered my first internship

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... thought it was awesome that the rooms had sinks in them. 2) Maseeh: because ... ended up in Maseeh and I liked it so much, I have stayed here all four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  , seasonal flowers, pretty architecture, AC in dorms, or just generally ... with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early ... . Accordingly, MIT lies in this awkward liminal space between having some of the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  ="aligncenter" width="592"] RESCIND[/caption] So let's begin. In middle school and a ... found my little niches in the realms of the vlogging world, enjoying the ... lot of comfort in OTV content. Being so absorbed into social media for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  (Apologies for not posting lately, life has been spitting in my face ... with dial-up internet. That’s the issue with living in the country, slow ... wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider ... !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... -watching shows in the dark hours of the night. As a nocturnal creature known as a freshman, I have heightened attention in the early morning hours before dawn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  Shuli: The new MIT Welcome Center opened in Kendall Square in ... filled with student art. In this post, Kidist and I teamed up to tell you ... ‘20 were very involved in!) originally founded in 2017 to paint a long

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  feeling, to think that I will bow out of this universe in under two ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... Hermes after being raped (surprise surprise) by Zeus. She is also, in case

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling ... . Wouldn’t it be cool to learn about the things in [EECS Opportunities List ... the section about the MIT.nano courses offered over IAP. At this point

  • by Waly N. '24
  • July 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  not, in fact, normal "What classes are you taking?" - Our Number System ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  in another five years.' In past years, the course has been offered ... everything which occurs, in the style of posts by Shuli and Cami before me. I mention a lot of building numbers in this post. For more information on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  Right now I am in Florida, at a campground just outside Miami, where ... gets larger in the window, nighttime Boston like a wet spiderweb beneath us. We are flying back from Thanksgiving break with my family in Myrtle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  to Italy to do some light research and travelling, stayed in a castle ... ;   Last semester, I took (3.094) Materials In the Human Experience ... .   castle “so anyway, we’re staying in a castle—” wild cheering

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024