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  my “first” “week” of “classes” at mit or, discovering course 1 through a first-year pre-orientation program

  

  in my fpop. it was always kind of awkward because my response to “are ... following factors, in descending order: what i want to do with biology is find applications in environment/climate/sustainability, so i thought

  • by Suzuko O. '30
  • September 17, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  pulled me through some of the roughest times in my life, especially in the ... in love with it. Not to the point where it was what I was thinking about when I brushed my teeth. In fact, senior year me was a little proud

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  what to pack for the dorms but non-extensive so pls don't blame me if u forget ur toothbrush

  

  the qualification that I've lived three years (going on a fourth) in Burton-Conner and take a lot of pride in my room, as evidenced by not one ... of time[/caption]   So, in no particular order, here are my two

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 8, 2026
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A moveable feast

  

  passed. What was this place in which you spent these years? When your eyes glaze over with the years and shine in the memory of a moment you cannot ... piece of black cloth and walk through the door. As I arrived I walked in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... undergrad at MIT, I got a book in the mail from an author I nicknamed “Shakespeare.” The book was about astronomy research at an observatory in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total ... , and got picked up by an auntie to go to my grandparents’ house in Fuxin

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ; i look smaller in all the mirrors  that make you better    if ... ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on ... future competitions and applications! Whether or not we compete in a sub ... in recruiting? Audrey: We are looking for all majors and years! From

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  Breathe in. Keep breathing. The prefrosh I was hosting, or my ... couch you'll sleep in, I'm gonna head to class now. The first class I had ... , which we do in 6.UAT to learn about things like recovery. What do you do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  10 Fun (and REAL) Facts About MIT! Incredibly Correct Facts about MIT!

  

  alumni club living in the Charles River in an effort to convert MIT students to the "Way of the Beaver," a doctrine created by MIT students in the mid-1900s. Its members are sometimes found in the depths of the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 1, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  essentially whatever they want: take classes, participate in random activities ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve ... ’ll wallow in self pity and rotten poetry until you wither away

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in aerospace engineering sometime in the mid-2020s.[/annotation] I’m genuinely

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... ="Pizza, you idiot, you were in Naples"]pizza[/annotation] . I was ready once ... class in high school, someone would sit me down and say things like “Amber

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... could not enter the US with me. Then I had a crazy idea. This was in late June, before any plans were made in earnest, and so it really was just a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  through bare words, but also through context that exists separately in the ... partake in such an unsavoury activity.) During this busy and exhausting ... [annotation note="In EC, freshmen often live in doubles and upperclassmen almost all

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life.” - 11th ... things to blog about: my "blog backlog" in Trello is stacked deep with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... destabilization, of an inevitable shift in your identity, of a sense of who, what ... person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019