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• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  rehearsal, “We’re going to Brazil!” Suddenly, samba music began blasting from ... works for several years. In fact, the trip to Brazil would likely have happened in 2020 if COVID hadn’t appeared and disrupted everything. Thanks to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they ... entirely sure how to go about tackling the last one. The motivation to write, though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  .) At CPW this April, every time I met someone new, I had to be prepared to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still dance on Mocha Moves, but come to at most one practice a week. I spend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  factors to consider: staying on track with HASS classes, completing major requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to ... a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  I've been hesitant to write things since my mind has been a bit of a ... have things to do, I feel happy and fulfilled. IAP is truly what I make ... breakfast, mess around for a bit, and embark on my journey to 6-120, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup ... wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  e3 2k19 at long last, i got to go to gamer christmas

  

  immediately rushed to the website to buy a pass. i then realized that the ... closed, and i would have to purchase a gamer pass, which is a whopping $350 a day. i was too broke at the time to even think of purchasing that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 14, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  this week and she wanted it to be posted in honor of the November Rule ... for frosh and upperclassmen to start hooking up left and right, but I wasn’t born yesterday and I know that it’ll probably happen to some

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  played games, watched virtual reality horror films, and listened to my 12 ... graduate MIT. People were going to start asking me what I was doing after graduation, and I had to pen some sort of answer, even though honestly I still

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I ... of June, I went to China for the Masters of China Studies Visiting

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  MIT students design and model unconventional outfits to raise awareness ... professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... anyway. He went into the bathroom to get some water and I returned to our ... , grinning. We say “wow” in the same way—long, drawn out, typically to signal

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to doing yet, and GOSH DERN IT I'M GONNA DO 'EM, FOOLS! I am proud to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012