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• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it’s about depression. ac newman’s lyrics hit deep, with lines like “so you crumbled, you doubled your dosage / you…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  many quotes about lesbians" Academic Life "i can do my midterm

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  a life update. i've been stuck with writer's block, like i have been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  Happy November! Two days ago, it snowed for the first time this fall in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment to enjoy these various…

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  .031 as much as I do, even though it’s slowly draining the life out of me ... to make life for international students even more difficult. Great. My ... life isn’t cutting me any slack. Pandemic or not, there is simply too

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  material. So...yeah. Academics consumes my life and I am utterly unable to ... when my personal life imploded a few weeks ago; that Thursday, a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a ... ’s yfn Boss.  I know it sounds from all this that life has been full of ... feels to be loved and taught and to have a sounding board for life, and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  Yesterday afternoon, President Reif announced that MIT undergraduates will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are continuing this week; classes next week are cancelled; classes…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  of my life.    As a friend so accurately stated, it feels like I ... the people and things I really care about and go about life exactly how ... of things to appreciate about life at MIT.    Rest in pieces, P

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  full week's worth of life into it. This semester, I only had one final ... (college admissions, life at MIT, upcoming finals) to the... not as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... that point in my life, i was lonely, anxious about not getting into MIT ... somehow get my life together before 7 pm, which is when my biweekly five

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  I’m taking 7.45 Hallmarks of Cancer this semester with Tyler Jacks⁠03 director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, one of those buildings that course 7s and 20s spend…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

    Avengers: Endgame opened the weekend before last, and with it, so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday evening, or early Sunday morning (it’s always hard…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  I like to quantify. I like magnitudes and metrics. It's incredibly easy to measure my life at MIT by courseload units, GPA, hours slept ... to reflect upon life without metrics. So here's to the unquantifiable

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  took over my life, and I spent lots and lots of my time and energy ... . Life is hard; get used to it. And then I came to MIT, and I realized

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ’t mean I suck at life. Rather, I have room to grow, and/or I bring ... . Life is all about walking that balance beam. Say yes because

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn’t know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  So, today is the day! CPW has finally arrived! As many of you make your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at CPW…

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  their class projects past graduation, developing, among other things, life

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn’t on campus for most of it, but I finally returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP’s week-long training workshop, which is…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018