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New England-themed reading list

New England-themed reading list

Weathering this Winter with Literary Escapes

March 12, 2021 | Vivienne Z.

First Impressions I grew up in southwestern China and Singapore, two sweltering hot places on Earth. In 2015, when I graduated from a college in Connecticut not too far from here, I decided that never again would I venture back to the New England climate and promptly moved to California. Well, fast forward to 2020, […]

Packing for MIT:  Laptop, winter coat, math phobia

Packing for MIT: Laptop, winter coat, math phobia

How I survived MIT classes without a math background - and you can too!

March 12, 2021 | Jelle V.

When I put my pencil down after muddling through the last particularly hairy integration-by-substitution puzzler on the 2013 AB Calculus AP exam, I felt relieved – both that I had survived the exam, and, more fundamentally, that I’d never have to take a calculus class again. Seven years later, picking up a different pencil to […]

COVID-19 elevates incidence of impostor syndrome in 1st year PhD student

COVID-19 elevates incidence of impostor syndrome in 1st year PhD student

A virtual MIT student, by any other interface, still belongs here.

March 11, 2021 | Brandon K.

“Please have your tracking number or a copy of this email and your MIT ID with you when you come to the Facilities Customer Service Center located in Building 7 Room 019. Keys may be picked up Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM excluding MIT holidays.” Great! Today was the day I […]

There is more to MIT than lectures and labs!

There is more to MIT than lectures and labs!

How one day at Boda Borg changed my perspective of work-life balance

February 5, 2021 | Vyshnavi V.

I couldn’t have been more excited when I joined MIT in summer 2018 and started with research straight away. I came here thinking that all I could do at MIT is complete the coursework and conduct research because that is what I had done as an undergrad. However, I knew not that something very exciting […]

Be the [climate] change you wish to see

Be the [climate] change you wish to see

Don’t underestimate the ripple effects of small changes

February 5, 2021 | Rachel S. (CEE)

“What were they thinking?” That’s a common phrase we might say when we shake our heads at past generations for war, genocide, and slavery. As we eat our cheeseburgers in our air-conditioned cars while rolling past carefully manicured and fertilized lawns (otherwise called a climate change crisis), we might not think this phrase may one […]