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• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  i put upon myself the task of writing a website i liked. at first i ... one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  Random Hall also allow cats to wander the halls of floors designated as cat ... suite/floor/hall, or will they return to their rooms only at the end of ... understand how the physical space of a dorm impacts one's social life. This is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  ended, they took a bunch of the frosh out for their first visit, and i ... limits, a ghost wandering the halls of First East. But the long weekend ... my first actual dome picture, if you don't count the one from 2018

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  Bluntly put, this was the worst week of my life. Geez! you say. That ... a throw pillow*. Alright: Let's just say that the week of October 19th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... curriculum; in the hopes of learning as much as I can in my major, my ... already coding basic functions, as they neared the end of a demanding, fast

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  (but still close to both of them). On the first floor the Harvard Book ... stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... overwhelming if it's your third donut of the morning (we work hard

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely ... one of the best arcade/game center chains imho"]joanna.[/annotation] the ... rained consistently throughout the week, which was enough of a deterrent

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... the service, I got out of the Navy in August and started at MIT in ... imagine the kind of support you’ll get. You don’t need to know what to ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... September 1st may have been one of the most simultaneously ... of that sort, but I could imagine how the start of my college life

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  all of the above. For the first Marathon Monday in awhile, I'm trying ... , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... the office, giving my eyes a brief rest from all of the applications

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  and almost blew up an oscilloscope on the first day of lab, and now ... . Luckily, the average was 47 with a standard deviation of 25, meaning that I ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  ride back to Boston. The whole HMMT group occupied the entire back of a ... couple of people grab lunch from Chipotle, we take the T to South Station ... card game"]play Fish[/annotation] on the bus. We talked about lots of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of the American IOI team. I first heard about Bebras while hanging out with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  in the first half of the first semester, then I imagine that this graph ... . The Media Lab is much better at this sort of stuff than I am, after all ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the core themes of the class: [carousel image1="115118" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of ... more without working over time. The problem seems to be a lack of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019