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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  week. For starters, it was raining when I woke up. Also, I was running on ... for time management, and so had not attempted to download the practice ... ="thank you Jean and Sean for providing me separate last minute copies LOL

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  in a couple days, after this eight-week vacation. For now I’m wandering ... cacti with arms, pronounced ‘sah-WAH-row.’ Thanks for coming to my desert ... was talking about would pass (ha). I was eager for college and hungry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  late at night because she'd asked me for some gatorade. we were on the ... person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the ... student's obligations year-round."]for a while.[/annotation] and when i was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  over my presentation for a bit, then stretch my legs and walk around for a bit. 12:15pm. I meet up with a friend for lunch at Cosi, one of my ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a ... the fact that at its core, this broth definitely tastes [annotation note ... 's not terrible, and it's ten dollars, which is cheap for ramen here. but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  ).Thanks. ;)" Not off topic at all. For freshman admission, we only admit students to ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where ... a question, look for the answer in a post like this rather than within

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  , Max, Mike, and I have been going to this robotics thing at MIT for a few ... for that robot above with the money I made working at the town library ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  secure path for the long shot at the audacious? I can’t say this to any ... at Princeton. Today was MIT's commencement, and our speaker was Sal ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  consequences of international trade? universal grammar? Last April, at our ... Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members ... new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  job at the time. During primary school, I remember wanting to be a ... PTA sponsored an "Author Day" at my school. They invited a children ... grow up," said Laura Nicholson, a third grader at Ocean Avenue Elementary

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south asian a cappella group. this post is a look at the different components of ... it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  much with consistently biking for ten minutes at the changing resistances ... for 6.009 and realized this on Sunday morning. From my calculations, there was no possible way for me to pass 6.009 unless I did extremely well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  guests at Kenyon College, noted author David Foster Wallace began… “There ... fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  the Department of Education. At the end of my gap year between high school and college, I wrote a blog post quoting the chorus of At Least It ... for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  't really identify. so here is a guide, for those lost. this emotion is ... disapproval from others. fear was developed for survival and may trigger strong ... processing. it can be thought of as many thoughts fighting each other for

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  chalk at a small angle [latex]\theta[/latex] down from the perpendicular ... holding it at the same angle [latex]\theta[/latex]. You should feel your ... pushing into the board too much, or you didn't hold your chalk at the same

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  interactions with strangers are at an all time low of impersonal. Gone are the days of awkward small talk over the counter at Target, or small smiles ... for the Cambridge-Somerville area"]Camberville[/annotation] have taken

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  post series* For as long as I can remember I have wanted to travel the ... professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I found a position at the Center of Biomedical TB Research at Wits

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  from my face. Overwhelmed at my desire for his dream to be the world ... This week, I spent four days and three night at the Salvation Army Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery ... : some cool examples are headphone-assisted navigation for the blind, blood sample diagnoses using an app and attachable lens, and even an app for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017