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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... similar to MIT’s 8.01/8.02). My mom also made sure I knew all the basic life ... it well! For those of you that don’t know, behind the scenes, there’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  many classes, it’s because I accepted early sophomore standing, which ... that involve a lot of algorithm analysis and proof writing, but it’s also ... can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it’s

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  This past Saturday was CSC’s (Chinese Students Club) Lunar New Year ... -based magician who had previously appeared on Penn and Teller’s show Fool Us. More ... with the arrival of the eastern seaboard’s very own polar vortex, so the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  , of course). But maybe that’s one of the reasons why I choose to walk ... -conscious Krystal that sits on my shoulder sometimes and says, “Hey, here’s a little ... summer is that most places, like MIT’s campus, Newbury Street, Boston

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the ... “what’s happening this semester” post and explain what’s new for this year ... it’s relaxing is because it’s so focused on clearing your mind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the ... usually include pasta because that’s what a lot of runners like to eat the ... ?! It’s so fun! A group of us in the Tech Catholic Community made plates

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  around and answered questions about student life while Tiffany (who’s ... pretty off topic, so she’s restraining herself from going off on a tangent, awkwardly.” Okay, maybe it’s a little plausible that you’d be thinking exactly

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  skimming over the topics in my head: “zZzZ….OMG calc test tomorrow!....what’s it about?….oh! that’s right, infinite series.”*Back to sleep*. That’s ... , and I made A’s and graduated in the top of my class. I never really

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  family was “The Game of Life.” It’s a bit like the mobile game BitLife, I ... WRONG NAME for the last YEAR. apparently it’s actually called a life TILE ... money is just game mechanics–[annotation note="there’s definitely a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  and a million other things. the stakes still feel high, but it’s also ... -22-year-olds in cambridge it’s a house in sf with people moderately ... better care of my physical health, and so on it’s obviously not true that

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  ']weeb[/annotation] 🤭 I’ll probably be in DC or cali this summer Depends on what program(s ... 's what it feels like It’s almost over thank fucking god I need a break ... semseter] burned into our brains ” 😂😂😂 Let’s be so fucking for real [We

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  [annotation note="21G.S55: Japanese V"]class.[/annotation] I woke up early that ... changing the kanji’s meaning entirely. I translated vocabulary and long ... 1830s, navigating racial and colonialist tensions. The setting aligns

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... the one I know the least about. As far as I can tell, it’s just one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  partially torn ligament in my right foot, it’s been a physical and emotional ... do it – and it’s already a dream come true. Putting on the practice ... passing and dribbling. But here’s what I can do: I can run now. Not even

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  refresh the registration site over and over until 8:00 am hits. It’s the ... ="94978" /] And ok, it’s not a lot of snow (as my parents so kindly informed me ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] before you say anything—don’t hurt my snow angel’s feelings

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note ... to a mind-boggling temperature to mimic the sun’s heat and then shook ... (or JAXA, Japan’s version of NASA). Here is where the 2-meter

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  group has a piano keyboard, and I’ve downloaded MuseScore. It’s my first ... . I became interested in songwriting after listening to Olivia Rodrigo’s ... internalized misogyny, by other people’s expectations of who I was “supposed” to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  friend’s life to be as good as possible, for them to move past all their ... have friends who will be forgiving of my past, and that’s why i feel ... suggest that i’m immune to jealousy now. there’s a popular model of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  simply gotten the grades and graduated with degrees. It’s not a particularly interesting struggle. It’s not a heartbreak immortalized in song lyrics, and it’s not a grief that demands witness through eulogies or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  responded to my email minutes after I sent it and told me to go to S^3, but here I was nearly a full day later after S^3 had closed for the weekend. So I set a reminder to drop by S^3 the following Monday, and stocked up

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022