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• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  , you know, i've already spent two and a half semesters divorced from a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it was a tough decision, but for some reason i feel like i already knew

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video clip of godaddy's CEO sincerely welcoming us. then a real person goes

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had fun; sophomore and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  A 21st birthday has significant significance in the U.S. because you ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... calendar was a solid block of commitments from ~8-8, and the remaining hours ... adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... implementation of curriculum, addressing the needs of a diversity of students ... well. A guest lecture from Harvard Professor Daniel Koretz provided the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  free time that I have. Here’s a picture of my bookshelf that has grown ... semester was kind of in a lull period in terms of work, I vowed to finish a ... the end of the semester and fifteen more the following semester! A lot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic example of a well designed civic technology: solving a societal problem by ... . Making this happen involved a lot of students, faculty, and staff working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech from tim cook and a ceremonial turning-of-rings. this class especially -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... accounts, so if you ever find yourself laughing at a funny MIT tweet, you can ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... with toons, ate dinner with toons, sang a concert with toons, and ate ice

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  ., and Th., ‘19, emerged in a grand procession. The leader, in a furry cap reminiscent of Russian monarch fashion, carried a golden cardboard crown on a ... cheered. Hugs followed. Solar Car Captain P. ‘17 presented me with a very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  working on a bunch of cool video projects while more relaxing things like ... Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to decide who truly is the greatest lover of pancakes. Last Wednesday, a group

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... so we (me and another very close friend) met him for a meal before ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  done before. Keeping a calender definitely helps. If Google Calenders didn't send me a reminder every half hour before class, I'm pretty sure I would be missing a lot of class. It's good to try to plan things out

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because ... (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... the phone. A tall, tattooed man walks in wearing a skintight red devil suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013