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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most ... home and am excited to see what the rest of these next four years will

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fangirl Moment kinda silly, kinda wholesome

  

  was for grad students/postdocs/researchers/profs to nEtwORk, but I was too tired to cook and just went anyway. The allure of free food is simply too strong to resist.  There ended up being a small handful of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... it is difficult to return to the previous sensation, of seeing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  "What if..?" when it came to joining the other sorority. This past spring ... Panhel rules like how sororities aren't allowed to throw parties or go to ... frats and srats, where frats have seemingly boatloads of money to spend on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  next four years were to hold. I was anxious about living so far away from home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn’t know if I was going to make it. Today, I’m at the other end of the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking ... ’s Cafe- Conveniently located right next to the Koch Building in Kendall

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  the only way i can convince myself to write anything for the past two ... events in each section, bullet points even to the paragraph and sentence level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  wanted to accomplish while at MIT. Some were silly, and some were very serious, but I considered them all quests that I was determined to achieve ... building numbers - 83%. To assess my final knowledge of the MIT building

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

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking people because it motivates me to not laze around or procrastinate by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  I got back to campus a few days ago. The journey here from South ... ="incidentally, this is the second time I've been on the same flight to MIT as a friend without planning it in advance"]happened to be on the same flight as a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  since you won't have the opportunity to do that this year, you can access ... a 20-minute ferry to Spectacle Island! I visited the island on ... ferry leaves at 5, so I'm not sure why anyone would want to spend only an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  seattle felt foriegn to me as i walked its avenues, but i wasn ... to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  To the rising seniors beginning to think about their college essays - hello, fellow kids. Are you as stuck on what to write your college essays ... you are probably thinking that it’s way too early to be thinking about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... Research Opportunities. You think to yourself: okay, I want to do research

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  units; Four regular courses and one half semester class to reach the credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like ... off with Biology. I knew I was going to take biology my first semester

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017