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• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  early this morning”.   It’s really difficult for me to process that ... year MIT solicits nominations for Institute awards, one of which is the ... open doors for me to pop in when I'm around in Stata. He never seemed in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  around. Yay for knee dislocations! To give you a little context, I ... shared stories of broken toes and bicycle catastrophes, I thanked God for ... therapy. I had survived. Untouched. Now it’s impossible for someone to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and ... . setting up a dev environment for software development can be tricky: it ... "]we[/annotation] go out for lunch, and we the interns get treated to ramen and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  given an outlet for my energy and creativity that my classes didn't always ... the younger student, and it was sometimes really difficult -- for ... the one in charge for one more month, but in effect, they had already

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... addition to all of the above, I will be... Cooking food for myself instead ... desk at my dorm for that $11 Massachusetts minimum wage (10 hrs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back ... body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... expressing sympathy for the students involved (without me even identifying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  facilitator for Interphase EDGE 2018. I could not be more excited. As some of ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... organization, the Office of Minority Education, that has done so much for me

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... built for getting lost, with streets lazily labelled, alleys and bridges

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... ’t sleep for a consecutive 36 hours.   Our first attempt on the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  Pong Champion. He is a sucker for Maseeh’s cookies, drones, and creeping ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 remake was announced Rewatched the movie every month for about three

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

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... , simulations, manufacturing, etc. They are choosing 5-10 startups for their

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech ... alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  gravitational waves, learned about opportunities to work abroad for free (MISTI ... reading about them online or watching them on the news. I am excited for the future, both for the things that are being discovered and created here, but

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016