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• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  a step, your foot does not actually rise to the height of the new step ... rather than upwards to escape the top step. taking two steps at a time on ... you to literally fall down a flight of stairs while remaining on your

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  , returning to my dorm, and sleeping, but a desire to commit to the events on my ... a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away ... to work with other people. Choosing a dorm that fits you is also

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We had nothing else planned for the day, and decided to try something new ... , if only life were always this easy. a love letter to polyhedral

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... . Furthermore, I have plenty of reasons to write now. On the one hand, being a ... class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until ... ? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times right. I need a

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . Essentially, once a week we work on how to convey motion through a series of ... alas, life goes on and before you know it BAM! There's a class of 2016 ... 'm too afraid to jinx myself by making some general statement about MIT. On

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its ... 'll get back to you on my 30th birthday. Anyway, MIT did quite a bit to ... ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... don’t seem to have any pictures of this fabled field, but Mai Chau is a ... good bonfire, our group of five decided to take a look at what was

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... .   (from Wikimedia) Colum McCann sat on a high chair in the light. He wore a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  to focus on research in a way that was not possible as an undergrad (I ... I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  quickly into the woods and out of sight. Time to take out a bunker.... At ... , and I want to show you how awesome that can be. Once a semester we go ... .) packed on our back. Suddenly, there’s a mission. There’s an

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  had even decided to come to MIT. We met a party on the rooftop of Baker ... This is what Websis has to say: Wow. *     *     * I'm on the ... based on major (Course 8 was Station 19) and asked to report to Johnson

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  useless to a fifteen-year-old girl who only crushed on teachers, gay boys ... ’s popular culture is also intended to invite reflection on self-help as a ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  this information can be found on your school's website. Once you find out ... fact, if you are able to get his or her email address, why not drop a ... your homework. Even if you have 30 schools on your list, be able to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  "getting to class exactly on time" down to a science; I can afford to waste a ... -minute walk, but, on a good day, that time can be cut down to seven or eight ... , which is supposed to be a class on "Voice and Meaning: Speaking to Readers

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  lecture was already a lot to handle, and the first assignment on MITx almost ... drinking it every night because I quickly found that it was a great way to ... just a few connections away from the strangers on the streets. So, to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... to think at how fast Mitra would type on a Dvorak. ... . It turns out that on the first typewriters ever invented had a tendency

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  to our rooming process and elect a new secretary. 11 - midnight: i ... [/annotation]in order to write down the poem on the paper i keep by my bed. here it is ... on some clothes. 9.45 - 9.57 am: i walk over to the[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  ; New York: On our way back from DC, we stopped by in NYC to hang out with ... and I get back on a semi-regular schedule, I want to keep this momentum ... , Afrojack, and Alesso. A video posted by Erick Pinos (@erickpinos) on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017