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• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be ... put on it to be special, to reflect the fact that it was the first time ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba ... , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule ... session of a class that you have taken previously; I decided to attend yoga

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  alone, where she befriends a dragonfly that offers to help her on her ... big way, a treasure trove of shiny new things to explore. As a sophomore ... feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  keep a list in my head of what topics I want to blog about. But I think of it as a stack, as opposed to a queue - so I cover things that ... to be on campus, but not have any formalized activities taking up all

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the hall to a post somewhere on Instagram. I even have a little sticker of ... recs in Bawston (a nearby town to MIT), new Pi day celebration ideas, CPW

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• 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 / 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 / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was ... . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use ... interestingly organic that way. I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• 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 / 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

  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
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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

  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