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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  ”--because they never tell you how to do any of that, and though the sentiments ... too early makes me hungrier the rest of the day, and there’s no point in ... stressful week of work, take a detox (no coffee or even tea the whole week

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  changes in mood, skin color, and overall feeling of the first patients ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room ... the care of her boyfriend, and went down the hall to check on the others

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  crucible slipped and fell down the sleeve of my lab coat. I shrieked and ... aggressive with the questioning, and in the 15 minutes of Q&A following my ... few days ago, my friend and her lab partner measured the speed of cosmic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... about this, and discussing the stupidity of it with my classmates, I ... view of the Great Dome to the soundtrack of Pomp and Circumstance. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  , my suitemate and I had gotten into the habit of it. We ... basement of Senior Haus every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Very few of the ... motivation, and the often exorbitant cost of gym memberships. Just as you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  currently in the process of building the first 2-stage collegiate spaceshot ... to check it out. My first introduction to RT was at CPW. One of the ... testing of our composites structures to include the fin can and nose cone of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  -y things, and how little I actually do them during the course of a normal ... York City during IAP 2020, and it immediately went to the top of my ... the Boston Opera House from November 2–14, and I spent a good chunk of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  first season, and I'm really proud of all the work the team has put in. It ... sophomores to bring new life into the team. And of course, if we are ... those looking to get into startups and the entrepreneurial side of product

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other ... my senior house friends are some of the most dedicated and caring ... were, and remain, cognizant of the flaws in their own community, and that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  : A toughie, but I managed to answer most of the problems =) If you'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a ... 'll be studying for most of the time until Wednesday, I will take a break

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  from the MIT Alumni Association's page that caught my eye... The Great ... by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library ... idea and a fun play! Enjoy! PS: If you haven't read The Great Gatsby yet

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the ... skin, or simply happily getting out of bed in the mornings. And, of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  first memory of her is going out into the hall from my room and finding ... This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because ... everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog applications (thanks!) and I have a file with all of your questions which I

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  . Full of food and full of caffeine we arrived at Copley an hour before the ... flag ran into the middle of the field and there was an uproar from the ... going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  reading and this first quarter they are reading Dune in preparation of the ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually ... metaphors of the United States being a mixing pot vs. a mixed salad and which

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a ... ! Unexpectedly, they incorporated a lot of music into it and also a meme at the end

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  left more time for all of the brain-crack ideas and projects which I ... he cancelled the first lecture of the semester with a 2AM email. Why ... files and told to compute the properties of various galaxies found within

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  into the context of SSBM and balances everything out. I usually play Link ... photos ourselves in a darkroom. This is my first print - a shot of the ... So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  The Marks of a Student or, let's catch up

  

  spent the first half of my week home crying. Full body shakes and sobs as ... stress of failing my 6.009 quiz. But the other part came from this rage and ... . And though it was something small, the mere fact of not being invited

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 4, 2020