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• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  from the horrible bleeding, only to get an infection that would last the ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage ... pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is ... forth. I never used to have to do this. When I was a kid, I was the king

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  cool - the process that brought me from my hometown, to getting accepted ... the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I ... thing about the topic, but I think it's safe to say that I learned a lot

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

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset ... community college, some of you will very soon begin to get into places--the ... , which never gets quite dark enough in the winter time. The snow reflects

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy ... .8301] last spring because I had to complete a CI-M by the end of junior year ... year, but I decided to get that out of the way. I used to do archery back

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  'll admit I was a bit taken aback by his reply. While I was gathering up the courage to ask the question in the first place, I was already predicting ... nowadays. I will be the first to admit that I'm very vocal. And also very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society ... crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  to the Student Center for Tech Twinkles, an event run by the the MIT ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our ... evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  woah woah woah, hold on Fiona, its going to get a whole lot worse in the ... Wisconsin, and the other, Abby, is from San Diego. Last week I get home from ... about that right now; I have to tackle the fall first.)). Until I

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... . I feel like if I keep practicing, I could get to the point where I ... I've been taking the time to explore some classes and activities in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  during the summer. You have to walk a little ways out to the Chipotle by ... in the program! I did not get to go on the trip [😔] but this ... ="116802" /] 10:00 - I BlueBike over to MIT Campus As MIT students, we get a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  interested to partake in social activities. Though to be fair, you get what you ... last year when I was remarkably overwhelmed by pressure to have an answer ... gifts as a way to distinguish the recipient of each gift. Then sometime in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these ... getting the timing just right. I had to calibrate a few songs manually for ... -shaped controller in time with some music to simulate playing a guitar. The notes are

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  might have underestimated the extent to which I would be challenged by my ... I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... , which had formerly been hidden by the gutter I had just fallen into. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  as mildly painful as getting punched in the kneecaps by someone wearing ... easier to find than my room keys, or the chunk of free time missing from my ... lines, but the lesson was sadly overshadowed by the fact that his USB

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  stage singing. In summary, I never did get to blog about the Winter Logs ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  me to take a step back and get an overarching view of the material to ... that the class was trying to teach me. What was I supposed to get out of ... character had finally learned their lesson and was getting ready to defeat the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -generated (we'll get to that). However, we knew that at least some of the video ... figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first ... more bearable by finding people to work with and understanding what ... will complain daily about the work load or the lack of sleep, I've yet to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012