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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  , and although I'll [annotation note = "I really don't know how the COVID ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the ... years—namely, windows that don't scream whenever it gets even the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  bad. Well, it really wasn’t. During my lunch break, I went to Walker ... class if we haven’t yet. Here’s my sticker: The hallway on our floor ... waiting in line. That’s fast. That’s insanely fast. The problem isn’t

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  dismantling freshmen’s assumptions that I have my life figured out. (I don’t. Honestly, most sophomores and, dare I say, upperclassmen probably don’t ... freshmen that’s inspiring and a little nostalgic. I didn’t come to MIT with

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  for fun. I am a nerd. I don't think I became a nerd UNTIL I came to MIT ... lowliest of undergrads. It happens so often that it doesn't even feel like a big deal anymore, but I know this isn't happening at every school. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all ... part of me that doesn’t feel like I’m in a new place though. That in some ... couldn't be that different. We were simply born into different circumstance

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  when it senses it has come in contact with something that it shouldn't ... eyes closed for this part so I didn't really see it in action, but the ... mothers and children who can't nurse (due to medical conditions, excessive

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come ... high school, and so I can’t really remember a time when these external goals weren’t there and I was just facing myself in an empty room. I still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  'm finally here. I'm finally here!!! I can't say if it's better or worse than I ... ? I could only bring some of those with me; they didn't all fit in the ... suspect that I am looking forward to a whole lot of things I can't even name

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have ... . This wasn't something that I considered when moving in, but being able to ... and a cotton candy machine (not pictured, because I still don’t know how

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  stayed in office hours for 15 hours), a 6.042 pset (wouldn’t have been able ... I G H T – animation assignments. So the long weekend Saturday, 10 ... , but those did happen, don’t worry!) (sidenote 2: the numbers in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  Champions. If that wasn't enough, I also helped out with recruiting for MIT ... another and with my classes I don't even know what to do or where to go anymore. At one point, I had "info session" on my calendar, and couldn't

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  MIT for years, but I still haven't competed in one. So I figured Hack ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn't ... they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  long story short is that after I wrote that blog post, I didn’t actually ... Admissions that most of you probably have no idea who I am. I mean, I don’t even look like my avatar anymore (but Petey doesn't have hair anymore

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  will get a camera so these videos won't have such terrible quaility lol). So just in case you don't want to watch the entire video here are a few ... don't want to watch the video I do want to write a little bit more about

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... the spot. I didn't have my own startup yet so I just focused on getting ... "disposable toothbrushes" (aren't all toothbrushes disposable?) to "like an i

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  before the academic storm, when classes had started but I didn’t yet have ... , and NASA. I wasn’t originally planning on externing (if MIT has taught ... quality, and are working on other things I can’t speak about publicly right

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  had to worry about a lot of things I didn't have to worry about while I ... actively cultivating a social life (so much harder when you don't live in a ... what I don't. I know how to treasure (and defend) my silence, my solitude

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... like a plan. My room is beautiful! But then I realize I haven’t had

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  don’t need a graduation requirement to convince me to take that! First ... resigned myself to the fact that I just don’t really like exercise. But since ... A) you don’t have to worry about maxing out the freshman credit limit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  language that just doesn’t stick for me. While I’m fairly capable of ... . I feel like all of my years of Spanish learning haven’t necessarily ... suppose. I can’t speak for any of the other languages taught here at MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015