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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  got a bid...and actually joined. I don't regret my decision one bit. I ... Panhel rules like how sororities aren't allowed to throw parties or go to ... events, whereas sororities have a) a smaller budget and b) aren't allowed

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

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... , but I still wouldn’t say that it was easy. Thanks to the virtual nature ... in a weird time zone, so I didn’t really have anyone to work together

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 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 ... Steven T. ‘20, whose mother works at a salon. In the past, we’ve spoken at ... communities, but this time, I didn’t know what words to reach for. I asked him

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  the freshmen and I won’t experience exactly what we’ve been waiting for ... room but I can’t re-create the inexplicable external pressure of being ... will stretch and grow just fine. It won’t be weak or stunted. We’re just

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  three weeks or so.  We'd go late in the evenings when the crowd wasn't ... taste good and they don't make me feel guilty for wanting something sweet ... maple filling. Words don't do them justice. Spicy Pumpkin Samosas  I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Believe It, Then Don't ... about when I teach about proof. I don’t know which is stranger: the way ... sometimes wonder how people first heard about it. I don't remember. This place

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  the start to freshman year has been rather odd. It definitely doesn’t ... couldn’t find anywhere else. You can go ask a question, joke around, discuss politics, or virtually anything else. It doesn’t matter whether this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  upcoming semester. I can't imagine my first week, month, or year at MIT being ... academics, because for the first time in my life I wasn't a top student. I had ... transition. Don't get discouraged by the many challenges you'll face this fall

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , because for once, I don’t want a fresh start.[annotation note="but I ... friends, many of them from B entry, but I won’t necessarily be living “with ... I miss having in-person meetings. I can’t just wander through the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  . in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as ... like the food we cook together, i like when things don't change. i ... of many many sleepless nights this summer...) i also decided it wasn't

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 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 ... at the wharf literally two minutes before the ferry left, so don't be ... boyfriend: "I don't know, but I wish I could ride in a boat that's being towed

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  , i knew that i couldn’t. when that feeling would come, i’d turn around ... front of me, because somehow that made it easier to believe that i wasn’t ... the presence of others. and yeah, it’s not as if i haven’t been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  expensive." "mit isn't that cool." but secretly inside i knew that mit was, in ... convince myself i didn't love [annotation note="mit"]Her,[/annotation] i ... sorry i don't know]. but i didn't expect it to hit so soon. i remember

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , last pset, last lecture, etc). I can’t help but feel a bit displaced ... of their life, but at the same time…. I don’t want to say bye just yet ... really didn’t contribute to me finishing my course 20 degree, so now I have

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  name of this lake, but doesn't it look like Hogwarts should be hanging ... almost didn't want to eat them.   But as much as Seattle is ... ="attachment_38601" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The sun hasn't set. You just can't

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  get started on them. That doesn’t mean that they weren’t hard to write ... ’s been two years, yikes). I didn’t want to just post my essays straight onto this blog, though. I don’t want to be *that* kind of college blogger

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

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you ... didn’t get cancelled because Hurricane Irma was around that we feared ... couldn’t wait to try. That weekend, we went to the North End for my mom

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on ... myself to a lot of things at MIT I wouldn't have found otherwise! However ... them. I can't encourage you enough to find programs, positions, and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  but you can't reveal it yet. And good luck to those of you starting grad ... 's how Commencement went for me. Because I wasn't graduating this year, I wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  wasn't too thrilled about, i've finally reached the promised land, a ... because it hasn't ramped up in abstraction yet and because holomorphic ... 18.112. 6.867 - Machine Learning this is my Class I Haven't Attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016