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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  't get confused. By we I mean me." (analyzing the solution) "Actually this ... personalities. When I say that, I'm not just referring to undergraduates, but also to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... ornaments. I was amazed by how the satisfyingly geometric creases gave rise to ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  representative to talk to several undergraduates about the program to get some ... your electives contribute to the improvement of your skills in some area ... "secondary" major, but they do get the opportunity to explore that major more

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  how to make the most of your college experience?  What are your burning ... RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to make it to these mandatory training meetings which conflicted with field

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  new image for reasons I struggle to justify now.  Was it because I felt ... get to choose. My relatives are spread out across the world and the love ... need to set a lot of standards and find your balance multiple times. ew

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... ."]The New Yorker,[/annotation]I still would have loved the opportunity to rep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  occasion as any to get something out into the world. As I started writing ... me starting this post and me getting to this paragraph, my sushi ... getting better. I’m at the right age to explore and figure things out, to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... across Manhattan without stopping. Life here is so fast paced. You’re leaving me behind.  The moments where my life crosses yours may be fleeting

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  I write has to be reviewed by security, and needless to say, it's a ... photos I did get were cool though. Oh well, you win some, you lose some--though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , including tributes to Batman, LOTR, and R2D2. If you're unfamiliar with the MIT ... , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday evening, or early Sunday morning (it's always hard to tell with those who do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1 indicates a loosely-packed schedule; the lower your time-to-pee, the tighter

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  September. You may have already seen Petey’s post Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... 's walls. However, when I came to MIT, I felt overwhelmed by the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job, delivered right to your e-mail! A lot of the jobs do happen to require ... , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  that night as well, it took over an hour (and $100) to get to the ice arena in Indian Trail. Lucikly, I was able to get there just in time for ... was good last night. Afterwards, I needed to go pick up a new

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to ... Social Sciences) classes often get a technical spin as well, so you’re ... ways. Now I know what I really want to do with my life. And, by the way

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape breaks you out of your daily routine and gives you a hard shake by the ... are, what you want, and how you hope to get there. Now I realize the ... what you hope to achieve and building on your vision with concrete goals

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  'll be well on your way to staying warm on a budget. Maybe you'll even ... let you adjust to different temperatures (by putting on/off layers), but ... ^ how not to do it.   "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... the big radome dish to map out the rotation of our galaxy by finding the ... , helping everyone in the Cambridge area get their data where it needs to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020