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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  under Microsoft called The New Technologists program. I wrote a bit about ... for working with me for the past seven weeks. I have learned so much and ... . Week 0 In the first week of the program, we were paired with another team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  farmers' markets in the summer. It reminded me that summer was special ... about writing one or trying to contribute, to do the work to untangle my thoughts and express the frustration or the whatever else was in there. But

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... leaves in a few hours. Instead, though, I've spent the past few hours ... sophomore year. I'm trying to be more conscious about the time between my

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  IAP stands for Independent Activities Period. For the month of ... really explore the fields that they are interested in"]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... his way out of the building?” My house is a confusing maze of stairs and winding hallways. “What if he accidentally opens the wrong door and goes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  seven questions with youtubers the mit side of youtube

  

  . Interview answers have been edited for brevity. Give me the one-sentence pitch for your channel. Sarah Chieng: My channel tries to capture the ... , hanging out on campus, talking about my MIT experience, or reacting to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  the very easy and simple meals I put together for myself. Also, for ... eight hour eating window throughout the day (typically 1pm to 9pm). I'm also trying to be a little more conscious about the food I intake, trying

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook ... ’t change--indeed, it’s possible they won’t have to so long as the way we

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  harder. This semester the four of us were on CASE’s (Class Awareness ... and knowledge of the social class system. Some of their programs have ... And a lot more The CASE food insecurity team has Provided food care

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  't be concerned about the difficulty of majors it's all about what you ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... things will be different in the future. What a lovely conclusion, right

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  of MIT students this fall, the characters talk about two types of depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness

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

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

    “It’s just a few more weeks,” my mom told me, on the phone, as I hurried down the Infinite and out into the cold. “Junior year is ... math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  , it is now I make my triumphant return to these blogs.The timing is ... that person with the drug-dealing rodent-faced roommate who embezzled ... . The living groups at MIT are as diverse at its students, so whether you

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the world can accommodate travel again. This post will be a list of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  specific deadlines throughout the summer so stay on top of your emails and check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a ... Calendar just seems to be the typical calendar a lot of people use so it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  Happy New Year! Even though I'm nearsighted, this is the year for looking towards the future and making moves while not bumping into furniture ... 2016 as part of the Class of 2020, which means most of my friends are

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020