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• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... " actions to take from a health standpoint can still be extremely difficult ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  -down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get better and a dozen cheap thrills. I want to be tired when I go to bed ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... . Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  is true about you. 01. I have a cell phone. 02. I am addicted to diet ... hate cleaning my room. 62. I tend to get jealous very easily. 63. I love ... /people getting hurt/abused. 66. I want to go to Greece. 67. I don't like to study

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  prestigious schools you thought you had a chance of getting into, or ones that ... likely to see someone wearing a cape than a popped collar. ... Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  ://jspaint.app/"]Microsoft Paint,[/annotation] to jumping off the swings! Being a beginner isn ... our successes, we forget what it feels like to be a beginner. Suddenly ... -printed parts and sensors. By Sunday, from a collection of 3D-printed plant parts

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Champagne, pistols, and my new UROP blogging in a power outage. that's hardcore. though anna beat me to it.

  

  .  siRNA does this by binding to and destroying mRNA molecules before they ... him a few days ago, and Langer Lab used some of its massive budget to throw a celebratory champagne party.  Which I was not invited to.  Sad

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king ... was actually a lot more rewarding than I anticipated. To go from disjoint construction material, a circular saw, and a handful of screws to a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  back across the bridge to get my haircut, and read half of a woodrow ... i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling ... then up boylston from the library back to mass ave, picking up a sandwich

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  some hot sustenance from a Dunkin' Donuts and biked back to Boston as the ... So, my last few weeks have been no fun. To put it lightly. My main ... tip: don’t get sick while at MIT. So when my friend Roxana '09

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  applications that a lot of prospective MIT students are interested in how to use ... and I try to outline what a feminist approach to data science looks like ... it takes more than one gender to build a just and fair world.  How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... of taking operating systems. by tuesday, i knew i wanted to [annotation ... jynnie, but a bunch of 2E alums are coming as well! i've never been to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... homogeneity vs. diversity is such a strong force. I’ve grown to like being just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... every stranger i encountered, and it took me a long time to realize that ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the ... you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... ) clubs I’ve been a part of (both by being in leadership positions, and in ... only the slightest amount — maybe even a bit that wasn’t important to the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... home; come to think of it, I was one of them. Good ol’ highway 34; a ... to my alma mater in only a matter of 45 minutes! It was this road that

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011