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• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  the harsh lighting and uncomfortable seats of the Stud when I could ... much and I get sick of the food I'm eating.) I convince myself I want ... any of the actual email, only the headers, and even then I only skim

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , and this Saturday has been the first time I’ve really been able to ... anthropomorphic dog that sheds all the time. My first exam of the year was for 5 ... was catching up on sleep. Tuesday night was the first night of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  time, and where I felt the same pride of being on a dope team that I ... being on exec and watching most of the people I respected graduate ... burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  experience. It’s one of the only first come, first served things, and classes ... "]instructor[/annotation] to eventually grasp the first part of the form: low blocks and punches ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  and stored the results on Google Sheets. Out of the 45 schools listed, I ... of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard. This semester, I took advantage of that for the first time, and ... — and spent about twice as much time doing so as I did for my first day of ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... going through the same practice exams over and over again, but at this ... always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  navigate my to-do lists ever since middle school. My first means of task ... control over their organization and also don't have any pictures of them ... aesthetic being into planning and structuring pages and sections, it's not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  .  Plus, that ridiculous hood does a great job of keeping the snow and wind ... completely on basketball, and have extra time to do all of the things I put off ... pretty and festive, and all of the trees on Newbury St. and Commonwealth

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -prevent-your-already-late-pset-from-being-more-late hard And The-list-of-challenges-can-fill-up-this-whole ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... basically the first week of classes. Until, we realized that we really wanted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  lounge for the occasion, and we spent the whole day cooking in the kitchen ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... “Powers of Ten” and read about harmony, structure, and the golden ratio. We ... evaluated our craftsmanship, our methods, the rigor of our thought and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  remember either. I just remember pacing the sidewalk for the first half of the call, and then ending up crouched down on the side of the road for ... package. There was hurting, lots of it, and anger over the unfairness of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  those that haven't read The Color of Water, it'll make 200 pages of Veto ... spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated ... the country, it's about time I was allowed to blog. Read on to learn of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  of the first classes I took here, and feel flashes of recognition as ... improve at over the course of time. I had binders and notebooks filled with ... experience is, in the end, somewhat intangible, and I got my fair share of it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day ... a page of handwritten notes for. We’re expected to understand and ... act of note taking remains. So, without further ado, here are all the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  gives me my first small task. steven explains one of the services that our ... understand it the first time, so i ask steven to explain it again and he slows ... consistently. i did a demo of a feature i added for the first time ever

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

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

  , with the assistance of a great memey friend"]meme creds[/annotation] ... [annotation note="The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... " here (Prof. Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition and MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering). Read about the FoL Expo

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  beginning of the semester – my UROP was going really well and I realized that ... final weeks of the semester and over winter break. There are four ... the habit of exercising, I completed a UROP, and I actually did pass all

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013