If you are having trouble deciding on what language to take in high school, I’d recommend reading it. Otherwise it’s mostly a rant. I’m proud to say I’ve always spoken two languages: English and Chinese. I rarely have a conversation purely in one language in my house. It’s partly due
Recently I’ve been asking this question to many people and also made a poll about this. Question: You are in a car with two other friends, and you were sitting in the backseat. The driver drops off the person sitting shotgun, and now it’s just you (in the backseat) and the
I’ve joined many clubs at MIT. I can’t say I was active in all of them, but I gained a lot of knowledge and met some cool people. Every semester, I’ve realized the importance of clubs and social groups on campus. And every semester, I tell myself to spend more
One really cool thing I like about MIT’s campus is the Charles River. It borders the south side of campus and gives our dorms some of the best views of Boston. After my first year, I’ve lived facing the river and woken up to the sun shining on the Boston
Have you ever had the desire to journal but quit because it was too much effort? Amanda Deng and I always had this issue and attempted to find ways to do so. We tried bullet journaling, diaries (paper and digital), and iPhone apps. However, we could never get into a
Here is some advice on what type of transportation you should take at MIT. Get a Bluebikes membership Bluebikes memberships are $39 a year (student discount!) and allow you unlimited 45-minute rides between blue bike stations. I’ve shared my account with multiple people over the years, and the bike locations
MIT dining isn’t the best. I occasionally joke on my tours that food quality is proportional to the distance from the center of campus. Although, that is a fact: Next dining and Simmons dining are better than Maseeh dining and Baker dining. This also applies to restaurants. As someone who
There are some pretty nice places to nap on campus. Especially with the banana lounge in 26-110, nano building, and libraries, there are always comfortable places where I can take a nap. But even before the banana lounge was on campus, I still got pretty good at taking naps here
Wow, are you looking for good food at MIT? Unfortunately, there aren’t many good restaurants nearby. But that’s fine; Boston has a lot to offer. Here were some of my favorite restaurants for each occasion. I sorted each subcategory by relative expensiveness. Obviously this isn’t all inclusive — I’ve had
MIT Career Fair is one of the larger events on campus in the fall. Hundreds of companies crowd the Zeigar center and Johnson track and ice rink pre-covid, of course. My freshman year, I walked around the converted landscape, bumping into students dressed in all styles of clothing (people were
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