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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  ’t always meant to stay, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing- or anyone’s ... , without further ado, here’s a nonlinear series of glimpses into my freshman ... -Halloweekend indulgence.    “Is that my 5.111 TA?”    “No way- he’s dressed

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river ... once were. Or maybe it isn’t static -- every piece of you that’s emerged

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  something intangible—a relationship, an experience, a math proof. It’s ... all or even most humanities scholarship is fluff; it’s just easy to be ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  happen in the film. That’s right – after running several concurrent ... like not a lot to work off of, but I assure you that it’s more than ... .) Furthermore, it’s becoming increasingly evident that their overreliance on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus History. It’s a special class, offered for the first time this year, with ... school and early years of college. It’s not a seminar, either, where you do

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am ... 3/s) were (in cm3/s × 10−14) 3.3 ± 0.2 (AQP2), 2.1 ± 0.3 (AQP3), 24 ... : that’s a lot of subtypes more subtypes than I expected Revision: Thought

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... get merch for my parents. It’s your standard college merch store, plus a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  , but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every ... -related lol"]destination[/annotation]in mind: Le’s in Harvard Square, Yamato II ... pandemic’s fault. I forgot how good it can be to go to a place with a person

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  next homework's due date. the grind never ends. i finally finished ... this fourth quarter. it's 11 am on tuesdays and thursdays. i was ... ;ve already run two events for cp*, mit's month-long admitted

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  ’ve written about, there’s one feeling that I can’t quite capture in words. I ... of the city. And it’s that feeling— that feeling I got the first time ... traveled MIT’s tunnels, not knowing where I was going, or where anything

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of ... .  We honestly don’t know what’s going to happen next year. We’ve become ... in Nisha’s Spotify post, because we don’t use Spotify, but if we did

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... that make me happy close. It’s also alright if they drift apart and the ... at stuff and that’s alright. My inability to draw or do a pset doesn

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  told she can’t use the women’s restroom. The entire bill is here: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2407. It’s super short. In November, the people of ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  MITAdmissions.org. We still are, and it's going well. I think we're ... blog. But there's one in particular I've kept turning over in my ... designed the new SoS website and forthcoming new mit.edu. I like working with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  ’ve gotten to meet and befriend. My friends understand me, and it’s liberating ... it’s crucial to know than meet because there are things you learn and ... time? And why do they deserve yours? With everything that happens, it’s

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  [GUEST POST] CPWgCPWaCPWyCPW huh...there are some lowercase letters in the title. that's odd.

  

  yeah...that’s the most apt way to put it haha), and we do a bunch of cool ... something that really deserves it’s own (or even multiple posts), but a ... screening a couple episodes of One Day at a Time!! This is Queer West’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  . The phenomenon is called Campbell’s Law, and it states that the more any ... know every tricky turn up their sleeve. That’s not how real world driving is though! It’s full of people who view traffic lights as suggestions

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  invited Caroline B. ‘21, Charlotte’s fellow J entry friend!!! Saturday 3 ... before the show was starting! That’s exactly how much earlier we came to ... get student rush tickets), to mentally “just claim it!” So that’s what

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . It’s days like these that make us remember why we love it here so much ... views and gives feedback on everyone’s weekly work). This week’s ... it was these screenings. And the most exciting part of today’s class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  front door where I’d scream, “MA, IT’S ME! OPEN THE DOOR,” so I could get ... couldn’t wait to try. That weekend, we went to the North End for my mom’s ... Mike’s Pastrys, Bova’s Bakery, and Shrimp Cocktail from Eataly. We got

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