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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... to ask yourself what your community is, and how you fit in it. When ... discovered they were all pretty awesome, and I’m glad I get to live with them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  name like Mathcamp, you’d assume we do a lot of math. And you’re not ... to solve quadratics with origami, use the Axiom of Choice to win ... very hungry and walking to the cafeteria. Suddenly, I was struck by

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to ... current 6.005 student. This is a theme in college: as you get older, your mentors and mentees start to be your friends and your peers and stop being

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ago. i should be able to write about that? i scroll for ten minutes through my Google Drive to confirm my suspicion that i was drowning in ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

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

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... are meant to commemorate attributes from only the class. If you google

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  any more intense? do you feel like you’re getting closer to act upon ... guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be ... opening up your problems to a friend, say. sometimes that difference is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Google Drive. Already a struggle to stay relevant in the two years since I ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  MIT’s month of “choose your own adventure” mode looks like would be to ... semester, explore boston, get ready to UROP, and train for track season ... ’ for the 1st time in college, but after that i had to get on larger poles

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  there's a bunch of kids who didn't get your spot. For those who didn ... many opportunities in life to not get in to someplace where you wanted to ... ...I can empathize with the applicant pool. At least you guys get to see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  probably connected to a lot of deeper things than this blog can go into ... as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do something, and I hate having to just suffer without immediate solutions. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  create opportunities to make friends, with the understanding that you’re ... have to leave your room and do things (I know, shocker) but it doesn ... sit in the lounge and talk to people, ask one of your classmates if they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  that it would be a bad way to get where I'm going in transportation, but ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... welcome ceremony on Thursday night -- the "top 10-ish reasons to come to MIT

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  [/annotation] concerts after that but didn't get to go to any others. later, I went to the ... commitments, it really feels impossible to get everything done sometimes. but ... time being. I have realized that I don't want to just get through it. I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  permit rotational motion. Ice and snow force you to find your best footing ... wrong, and you always need a way to get to a safe location. This route had ... , not-going-to-murder-me driver to get home – I do not want to think about

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  these hobbies but what if your cart wheels are worn out and difficult to ... bump in the road your wheels shift and you begin swerving to the left or ... you’d like to, and you end up having to correct your course constantly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  ) to get another direction. A sequence of rotations is then equivalent to ... many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf. At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... . Design is applied art. It is Design Museum Boston’s goal to show ... of the world. On October 6th I went to my second DMB event where The

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  for my early flight and didn't get to sleep until after 2AM, so that was ... why it's so hard to get women to consider careers in engineering and ... want to get my flamenco dance troop back together." Headed back to the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on ... of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... mostly it’s about diversity. (And as soon as he gets it back online again

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with ... Muthukrishna, just graduated and is off to get his PhD. He helped catch me up to ... astrophysics. Coming from an EECS background, I had to Google some of the astro

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024