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• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide, and the fact that she also happens to be a woman reinforces the fact ... encourage them at a younger age. And what better place for that movement to

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... had a freshman backpack.) I try to let that roll off my shoulders, burdened as they may be by a brobdingnagian backpack. See, sometimes, what

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... 't get me wrong: I'm fascinated by aspects of all of the sciences with ... , incidentally, I started doing a couple weeks ago thanks to Netflix and Amazon

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... , it's a time for residents to get together, enjoy free food, live up to ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  to fly by for no reason at all - but I also know people that run like a ... the thief didn't have time to get a new lock for it so I just walked it ... I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... -step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  sure I'd ever be able to get any work done. I went on a student-led tour ... my travels over the last month, I just want to take a minute to thank ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  MIT). To get there, we took a boat ride up the Rio Negro – one of the ... heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  not be following a recipe by the book while a chef scrambles to finish ... , but you get to be around a lot of fancier people All these options take ... Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... on your ceiling just to keep things from getting too crazy and then ... LED (no joke). And, I'm happy to report that after a month and a half of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... else is also hoping will get bitten by a snake on this plane, is sitting ... laughing maniacally. Another lady comes up to the counter with a bag. "42

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  to pull up a map. On Wednesday, I went between events hosted by various ... classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... it into the saw in order to make a cut. To use a bandsaw, after

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each get our schedules and get to talk about our classes, yay!" I will tell ... 'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics ... energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get through a big chunk of my ever-growing list of blog posts to write. Today, I ... handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  asking a shop mentor. By the end I had resolved to work on this and learn ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... needed to finish it; in this case, a [annotation note="they seemed much

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  'd compromise my morals for a job because frankly, I needed to take what I can get ... because any job is a good job. I do not expect to get a job out of ... something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... (here are a couple). And every new year, I find his musings to be just as

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  . There, I came across two Stephen King books I had been trying to get for a ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... two flights of stairs (grade five) to trying to sit back on a chair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013