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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  'm starting to be recognized linguistically and culturally by the Chinese ... hours weekly to make sure I knew everything from Chinese 1 and 2 as well ... visit and I've welcomed and encouraged them to make that their goal. This

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve this year? teach nance how to publish his blog entries so that i don

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  week, and back at home, I kept referring to Shirali '05 and Farhan '05 as ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... eats to go to bed. Farhan: Hmm? Sam: Yeah, isn't that total crap? I eat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  interdisciplinary, and also decided by the fappers, to maximize their enjoyment of the ... abbreviated FAP. Yep that is the acronym. But us counselors embrace it and make ... second time, we are now beyond desensitized to the word. It's both awful

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple ... our amateur art to the walls with masking tape, to make the space less

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank ... . Behold, the death of 3-month vacation heralded by this monstrosity of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I've decided to try this approach to study for my 2.003 test coming up. WARNING ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  , just waiting for the other to make a false move, paranoid and frozen ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them ... -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  via the endless stream of short-form videos spoonfed to me by various ... -confirmed my conviction that the best way to make friends is freshly baked ... Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  students were accepted to MIT, they wouldn't make up the majority. So it ... that makes sense. If I wasn't clear, please feel free to ask me again or ... officers would overlook my science handicap. =P Glad to know I could make

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  give an overview of the IPA symbols that are used in English. By the time you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  making up more categories as I go. I am excited to see what you think, so ... to make a diamond ring And I can go anywhere I want Anywhere I want ... anything else. Holy Ground makes me want to spin like a girl in a brand new

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  , that makes you feel better about yourself. and yes, i was warned not to ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  mode they are traveling by, and what route they are taking to get there ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own little bubble. There were many times I remained oblivious to what was going

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  limited by the amount of energy you are willing to expend. Walking from the ... Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  development. It’d be an awesome opportunity to make connections in the robotics ... ! And we’re always more than happy to have you around! Come by anytime for ... , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my ... figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing ... . As of right now I have two big posts I want to make, “being black in

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  unfortunately dwindled to near zero by week three. Despite this, I actually really ... something substantial to say. I like the things I make, but I’m also ... to make art). I’m trying to remedy this relationship; I want to keep a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked ... , okay? it doesn't really make sense to me either...) and when I fainted I ... 're required to make every call, I gave the new third rider tips on how to hold

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007