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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  turn to this hobby time and time again when I picked it up at the ... watch. I picked up needles again to help me through this hell of a year, and I know I will find myself picking them up once more. Starting a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , their GoFundMes are here. This write-up isn’t intended to be activism or ... length about our experiences growing up Asian in predominantly white ... lead. Last fall, when I searched up election polls, Asian voters were

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... ...interesting. Due to some technical mix-up, the vast majority of the class (40-ish people) ended up in one room, waiting for the professor. A half-hour past

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  classes or projects. I actually ended up talking about my freshman imposter ... as an international student at Stanford- somehow we wound up talking ... newsfeed, and find out the US government has spent it’s day thinking up ways

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  in remembrance of the body affirming the mind–body connection

  

  a point i could stand on to watch the sunset. i ended up walking to, i ... my hunger. stand up every once in a while. remember to blink, because ... did some warm-ups. the professor asks us to stand up, and i do, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  being in full swing with psets and midterms starting up, I also started my ... recitations. Last semester, I ended up spending way too much time trying to ... ended up taking twice as much time solving problems because I would spend

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  field is just crazy. Look them up! I never had a true interest in biology ... . As a class, we take up all the whiteboards that surround the class and fill them up with Gauss this and Gauss that by the end of the class

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus is already gearing up for the mad rush for jobs and free goodies. People are lining up in Lobby 10 to collect their booklets and nametags; students are printing leaflets of resumes before the printers get tied up on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  person with some unique circumstance) and you open up your grade report to ... -carrying grade. This may be done with or without the instructor requiring a make-up ... the final or do the final project but you can make it up some time in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  idea that IAP is 'infinite time' can be so dangerous, because I ended up ... catching up on my movie/book/TV show list fell by the wayside. Not to mention ... was there for eggs, toast, and emotional support. We ended up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  growing up. I'm grateful every day for all the opportunities and experience ... , right now. I'm catching up with old friends from high school (shout-out to ... is awesome but it doesn't match up to authentic Taiwanese cuisine

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students ... to submit my resume ASAP when I got back from the fair, so I pulled up ... when the trip started out poorly. I ended up leaving Maseeh a little

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  average confidence in their choices was 66%, but 96% of them ended up ... , Harvard, Columbia, UChicago, and UC Berkeley, and I'd looked up the ... MIT). I did not feel prepared to predict which one I'd end up at

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the ... 've just had enough. You give up. You break down. You're worn out, stretched ... do it all now. It's okay to jog instead of run. Keep up at a steady

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  , still coughing up my lungs in a mucosal haze of academic slackery, and shivering despite the toasty warm weather, I woke up from a 20-hour nap and ... use the left sides of their brains. 4. I've been getting up to speed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  to join lots of email lists) and signed up to audition for eight of the ... to sign up for the ninth one, the Logarhythms, but one of the members ... prepared an audition piece, I signed up for MITSO and MITWE auditions. (Later

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  , Nintendo rigged it up so that if two people, each with a 3DS, pass each other ... 7, looked up (ALWAYS look up when you go into Lobby 7, you never know ... of Nintendo's AR cards. My 3DS was out of my backpack, opened up, and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake-up ... case. That morning, I woke up to the hotel room phone ringing. Me: (half-asleep, dazed, thinking oh! it must be my wake-up call!) mmmmmmmmm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  Last night, I went to bed at 5 am. This morning, I woke up at 9 am ... the dance floor and covering up our noob status by fiddling about with ... arrival of more experienced dancers, the energy rapidly picked up, and the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  where we met up with the AFROTC detachment from UMass Lowell. Hanscom already had a simulated forward operating base set up, much like a base that would be set up during wartime, complete with gates, tents, and a command

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009