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• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , Ohio for the first day of freshman orientation in fall 2002, but I’ll be ... finishing my postdoc in Boston, and frankly we are pretty tired of this whole ... , but the proliferation of new bits and bobs available in the past few

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  deadlines that I never had time to appreciate and absorb the material. Some of ... questions correctly. I felt like I lost sight of the forest for the trees, and ... Alewife and just took an Uber to drive us the rest of the way (Uber is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... -lived episode of m*thbusters and bust out the party music because WELCOME TO ... saturday afternoon for the both of us and we wanted to enjoy the view. boston

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... because I’d miss the First East random lounge craziness, and the gorgeous ... monologue before, so that's not new. How do I move out of the comfort zone and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS ... taught by the director of the Human Genome Project and a pioneer in cancer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . The whole project just felt like something so huge and so untouchable ... pretty time-consuming. Towards the end, people got suspicious of me and ... part of my life, and the class has gotten me thinking about these things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  , which is exactly the kind of thing I get used to right when camp ends. And ... different days and weeks permute and photo albums are the only ground truth of ... , the JC I worked on LN2 with, and I would take inventories of plastic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP ... brother had reserved, as well as the cute fluffy snow-and-ice hat that it ... the trunk's corners and pockets to find...nothing. Uh. Fortunately

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... a house is not part of the basics of college. The first time I ... with GPT-2-small, and waited for an hour or so. The first attempt was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/housing/undergrad/residences.html and click on the name of the residence hall you're interested in. From ... out some survey that came in one of the many folders and envelopes I ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa ... current status of it is? The floor still up and operational? Any new ... dance floor kits and components (you can see most of these on the webpage

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  insultingly shallow and biased descriptions of the dorms, each in 144 char. or ... speak of, since this will be the first year it's open! EAST CAMPUS: Older ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have ... .03 recitation on Thursday and said, "I am officially Course 16!" The next day ... ). Even so, the last month had me mentally flipping between Brain and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• 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