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• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  wound up doing all the building and he didn't want to build a loft, lol ... sick of this school. I found a UROP where I do independent research that ... pretty quickly if I do not get a job in UX design or product management

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  say they do. The importance of saving a child so far outweighs the cost ... children and adults, who would otherwise die, and we can do so at a very ... think like a scientist: "how do I figure out what that structure consists

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... name, so I've given him a pseudonym. **Arlo: "When people ask what I do ... It occurs to me that I haven't told you much about what I'm doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  shouldn't do when laser cutting. Each featured some videos, text, and a quiz ... the material, focusing the laser cutter, and doing a quick test run ... at all and were terrific. So I got a rather dandy end result if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  enjoy lying to myself and made a brash decision to do so. I wound up dropping a class. Not cause I was doing terribly bad, but because I hated it ... I took a leap this school year that I’ve wanted to do for a while. I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... course 16 anthem? Background: In 3rd grade, we had to do creative ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Come to AXO Lip Sync! Come to AXO Lip Sync tonight to see some of your friends... "remember when????"

  

  talents? Do you long for opportunities to support a good cause while being entertained? If you answered yes to any or all of the questions above, buy a ... Do you want to relive your favorite pop culture moment? Do you enjoy

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  started running out of work to do after one semester, so I adopted a second ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  ’ve been doing a bit of this and a bit of that—like Michael C. ’16, I did ... . Additionally, I'm working part time doing web development for a small business ... had been on my to-do list since getting to MIT. It’s a pretty good way

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  'm motivated to do at the moment. But half the time I give up and take a nap in ... I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  when just doing so for a single day was excruciatingly boring, so i might ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people ... where we want to be. R: Which is? Where do you want to be? B: Taking it a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  . You might be able to find a community that enjoys doing [insert hobby ... -life separation. I do work remotely sometimes, which may defeat the point a bit, but ... to create two “desktops,” which might have been helpful to do back as a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• FAQ / Interview

  Do alumni conduct interviews?

  MIT’s Alumni Association is involved with everything MIT—from providing admission interviews all over the world, to sharing in commencement exercises 50 years after their own graduation! They’re members of one…
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  whiteout conditions forget your mission, just get out alive

  

  whiteout conditions is a song by the new pornographers, and it ... the passage" and "got so hooked on a feeling, i started dealing / in a stage of grief so demanding" and "maybe you riot for nothing—it's just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for ... grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... yeah so i guess i'm joining the "what i'm doing this IAP" bandwagon

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for November Reflect, rewrite, repeat

  

  A lot of the people reading this have probably spent the past two ... [/annotation]. A lot of the people reading this are probably starting on their Common ... in your college app process: good job! You're doing really good, keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  remembered that we can. All futures have a past; indeed, one reason we do ... future, arriving in the same place, at a different time, to save the future ... , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... , Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Hersh, a former university president who

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in rage comic form. I don't actually read reddit, but most of my friends do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011