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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  stressful. Over the course of my time at MIT, my relationship with work has ... snappy and impatient with my friends. A couple weeks ago, after making a ... lonely because I hadn’t really hung out with friends in a week and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  Birthday Dad! And also Happy Muslim Women’s Day! I’ve been toying with the ... ’ve had limited interactions with Muslims, I’m the representation of ... of the waitlist. At that point, I was kind of jaded with college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  wrote about his awesome experience traveling to Europe with the team! You ... seat electric race cars. Over six days, in three countries, we met with ... monocoques, four-wheel drive systems with in-hub motors, and semi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  I learned that one of my closest friends Kate had passed away with ... probably when I began to wear the sidewalk cement thin with all the pacing. I ... flu shot with me next year, something she neglected when it fell off the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  people like us have to deal with. I would like to say that I haven’t had to ... might help those with these questions understand why I believe a movement ... should start with regular classes," The summer counselor looked over my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  , for living in a suite with friends next semester, and adding new ... to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus ... the email that loaded said, “We write to share with you some troubling

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  classes, seeing and interacting with smiling people was energizing. After ... you’re teaching, with little consideration for how students learn or how ... hard time interacting with the know-it-all student who interrupts with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  indoor kickball or doing homework. With these experiences in mind, I was ... workouts. We were given a workout sheet with a set of exercises, a number of ... taking weightlifting, I’ve continued lifting weights twice a week with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos ... needed to be shot on actual campus with actual drones and actual tubes. So, last October 5th, Loren and I met up on campus with my uncle Andy and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my ... maybe one of those side-of-the-mountain tunnels with walls of dirt, a ... road, plus tiny maps at the intersection of buildings with helpful "you

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an ... first album, starting with a mismatched rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian ... , created in an attempt to win dinner with the renowned Professor Eric Lander

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  as the temperature numbers begin flirting with freezing. 7:57 AM One ... lift with buddies. Buddies can keep large heavy objects from squashing ... :26 AM The front of the Media Lab I have an appointment at 11:30 AM with a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... managed to crash the Internet. I don't want to lead with that story though ... with open-source projects, general computer help, and resources galore

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  freshmen had already registered with their advisors, I didn't have any ... fellow xkcd fanatics, then headed out with Ostin ‘17, Henry ‘18, and Zareen ... began. His talk opened with a history of “What If?” - the idea actually

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  group came up with this (exceptionally impractical) bed whose mattress ... most recent 18.01A problem set with a group, and it was definitely ... . (and I got a 93 yesssssssssssss) With all the time I spend on classes

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  was in an operable state. These are problems we never have to deal with ... ) [good for packing with lunches. I grew up drinking one of these every day ... something to cover leftovers with] SFY Facial Tissue [hey, those little

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

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  -minute trek to campus. I met up with them at the Student Center - my mom, my ... piano drop.   Turns out the piano was filled with candy.  They ... . They also chatted it up with the parents of other Hispanic pledges in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One weekend in New York, two (very different) operas And I didn't pay a cent.

  

  the TSA"  until 9, then walked into the kitchen and sat talking with ... classroom with Eric; we walked and talked for a while, which was a nice ... from MIT to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. With me were ~25 other MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  ’t get to any sites that ended with .mit.edu whereas if you were on your ... official news source with the information out there! Subsequent articles and ... of Hacker News and cause my inbox to fill with conversation going back

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... , there's quite a nice rush associated with it, like when a TA handed me an ... I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012