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• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  somewhere upwards of 170 hours of dance practice with my team, [annotation ... ![/annotation] I got food or coffee with people 23 times. Should've been more :'( I ... note="the lounge near 26-100 (a big ol' lecture hall) with an endless

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  specifically my relationship with one mentor who has grown into more of a sister ... , and still be so ready and willing to take in a lost, naive freshman with ... was waiting for someone to come breathe that rare air with her, and when

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison ... we can make *professional* covers of our favorite songs with. over IAP ... BEAUTIFUL IT IS[/caption] doing fun things with my friends - i commented on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  lots of East African classics in line with my project theme which was the ... time obsessed with my stress points on a daily basis that I sometimes ... falling short a step away, especially when you’re not honest with yourself

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  I found myself with my fists clenched against the wet tile wall, ready ... through my fingertips. I’d broken up with my partner of three years from ... in the sand. I walked to the Harvard Bridge with a friend to sink the

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... , and struggling to deal with personal issues. when i wasn't revising my ... cope with my burgeoning doubt and self-hatred.   i close the tab

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... Dunlap, and developer Lou Huang), all affiliated with Bad Idea Factory ... smartphone generation, combining the interpretive flexibility of emoji with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... within the last few months. The last time I communicated with him (beyond a ... course that later became FIRST Robotics, with archival footage going back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine ... in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... incredibly lucky to have my aunt with me at the time. Her instincts kicked in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  'm planning to go with other interns this week :) i started work yesterday ... to be working with the [annotation note="even though i only started ... this year's LA pride parade with other MIT friends and [annotation note

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  into MIT with me back in 2015, my brass rat says 2019, and despite not ... with. So I am allowed to go to senior ball, senior week, and any other ... through MIT with are still here, and are still very foundational to what

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  , but the fundamental problems with my robot, Flipstream, were too ... 't care about how it performed. And Flipstream, adorned with ~stylish~ foam-core "blinders", haphazardly placed electronics, and drive belts galore all with a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... international students with whom one can relate to a certain extent, the bond will never be the same as one you would share with someone who was born and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... that people choose a major they are already familiar with; if you're good ... spent a weekend with my friends at MakeMIT, a hardware hackathon hosted on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  placing third, with a total of 103 climbs! I climbed the Green Building a ... stairs back down to the basement. I represented the distribution with a ... out with an equal number of negative ones. The majority of the teams

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the group pointed and laughed at him for having to work with me. Needless to ... undergrad institution, I had worked with students for two years a college

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  ![/caption] We tried procrastinating this with the pictures, but we can only insert ... program! This year, we ended with four amazing groups that made four ... choreographed and performed a fantastic dance with a comedic twist! Just like

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  Hello! Just giving a quick update on what's going on with my life ... that year in Next House, and in Sigma Phi Epsilon, and with Toons, and a ... somehow gotten some of my 2East friends to start playing with me. It's a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  spending the next few years with. After an initial hello, we walked outside ... left my town that was 80 degrees with 100% humidity in Florida, and I ... most of my friends did that I now hang out with. I literally like only

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  12 Units. “Subject uses K-12 classroom experiences, along with student ... education, with some mind-blowing observations sprinkled in. Because education ... years back, for example. When I was practicing with an instructor, did she

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018