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• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  . Unfortunately, I got back from a 60 mile bike journey throughout Vermont and New ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow morning at 6 AM I'm leaving on a fast train for my beloved hometown, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... hard it is to make a circle on an etch-a-sketch! CNC lets you design ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  above: the MIT blogs had a huge influence on my decision to apply to and ... think about MIT every time a new post goes up on Stanford Med blog, and it ... MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  , so unlike at MIT, there isn't a constant pressure to work on psets. I ... partners, meet with a supervisor to discuss the homework on a regular basis ... calculus teacher turned me on to competition mathematics, I spent a lot of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  stop talking with yourself and talk to the reader? Oh god there's a ... attention since as a Senior Blogger I get to read your blogger applications! And also according to a recent emaill, if I don't blog, I will get fired

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... to my Engineering Practice Requirement, a project with leadership

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... —at least 4-5 hours a day dedicated to programming. That was a good decision

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  to a new motor, because that old motor has seen too many things and has ... computer screen on a desk clicking buttons to do things. It's things like ... Opportunities Program), which means I get to have an on-campus job doing cool

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  urban planning and design." For the still-curious, scroll on. These are a ... civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on ... would be missing out on the big picture of the city or town as a whole

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  can be a good way for you to meet new people, having acquaintances with ... audience, and so on. i have a bad habit where i tend to assume at first that ... well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  decorating efforts to a whole new level this summer and won the Boston ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to ... , we settled into our new home for a few days, and drifted off to bed ... to take the province on. Our group found an adorable A-frame cottage

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  Simmons folk, new kids on the block. Time to write the next chapter, to be ... , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... , upperclassmen, fellow 17'ers, and new members. I wanted to make sure everyone was

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  heaven and earth behind the scenes to forge a meaningful connection between ... were going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Brazil to learn about their local music and perform in a concert! Day 1 Fast forward to about three

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... time necessary to go to the Z-Center on a regular basis. Now I know that ... wake up and make it to class on time. So for IAP I'll be testing out new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre ... . Feeling very uncultured, I went on to read that he was voted into the ... a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  to make veggie lasagna on Wednesday. We also have a finals board ... also a really important question on the board for residents to fill out ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  ’s not rare to see a freshman and a senior hard at work together. On the ... sleep. Then to open my eyes to the surprises of a new day. Of a new week ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... . Transportation planning is a mix of civil engineering and urban planning, much to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010