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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge shelter for the southern Californians here at MIT, I think we can agree that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation ... of course, everything in science is easier said than done. Now for my ... intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  room, MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC) shows movies every weekend for ... was weird for taking a photo of Sha-har. He later found out that I ... Another group with which I'm involved, the Association for Women Students

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  since I won't be home at all this summer, I'm stuck getting piecemeal ... monkey and a butterfly garden. I watched the baby tamarin for about 15 ... spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  would be absolutely amazing to be at for 4 years. Overall, I had a very ... beginning, I found it very helpful to look at a few past blogs. For example, I ... -defunct decisions portal was scarier than when I hit my chin on Kingda-Ka at Six Flags

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  class per semester for the rest of my time at MIT and still fulfill all ... myself be bad at things, even if it sucks in the moment.   The only class whose lectures and recitations I regularly attend, at this point in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  for at least a couple minutes to see what's going on. Synergism. I ... think two or three nights ago we were at the Floor Pi Discord server just ... them at a time. There will be some spoilers, tips, and screenshots, but I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  working demo minutes before judging began at 11 am. After being awake for 28 ... My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... clubs participate in. For example, MIT Chinese Students Club annually ... Boat Cruise event. We're at the World Trade Center in Boston, on the dock

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  hours, suggesting that, at this rate, I should go ask for another blog ... nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... is probably the least fascinating thing I have done at MIT. I've gone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  use telescopes and cameras for low-light photography. at the end of the ... volunteered for commencement! I was at the info desk at the advanced degrees ... for whether I was ready for those classes. I took up all the activities

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  'm going to switch sections because 9.00 recitation is at 7pm for me and I ... for the judges at PearlHacks! It was a lovely time and I'll go more into ... requirements for 6-3 and honestly a class I've been dreading for quite a while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  function at any point. That’s how chaotic it is. Major Evolution: Math & ... ended up taking two Political Philosophy classes this semester, one at MIT and one at Harvard. Afterwards, I wanted to take many more Philosophy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  third anniversary. I liked looking at the dresses, which were gorgeous ... after I'd started dating my ex, Chris, who I was also together with for ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  [annotation note="At home, I crocheted bonnets for my cat"]functionally useless ... logistics of crocheting at MIT. How will I pack all my yarn? What project ... 've successfully woven in my crocheting with my life at MIT. But why do I spend so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least four of us working in the kitchen at all times, with others joining now ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi ... commonly known here as Reg Day. Morale is at a local maximum. Provisions are

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  Yesterday, Friday, was my third day working at the Atlantic. I ... . I spent the day scanning news sources for updates, any updates, and updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  , I spent three weeks at nerd camp. I was what multiple exes have ... far away from home for a bit. One afternoon that summer, while about ... listened and watched as this happened, amazed at how well a single song had

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016