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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  openers switch between doing a T-Spin Double, if I can find one, a 4-wide ... mater. For Sylvester, who introduced the term, a matrix is where a ... mahal kita. It’s neat that kita is a pronoun that doesn’t just indicate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  looking at the answer key at all. On a real test, if I do not know a problem ... . My room is not a good place to do work. My computer fills my entire ... to pass slowly, because I was doing a lot of work in that time. I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  Mechanical Engineering undergrads in a class known as 2.009: Product ... from a piano several feet above filled the room. Lights danced around ... but with… …a rendition of What Does the Fox Say by a live band

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  some thoughts i have a few

  

  Greek life as I do, but they are actually in a sorority. They brought up ... year. I've got an LA position for 6.08. I'm doing a Microsoft internship ... whatnot, it's a bit hard to do. I was originally planning to spend 2021 IAP

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 10, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  your summer doing research, and you had a great time doing the same thing ... also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it ... in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  hard to do safely in the dark), or hiking 20 minutes to a pitted gravel ... 2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  Morning Style. And here’s the kicker: he didn’t do this for free. As a fine ... . Frog-jumping had a certain grim finesse to doing it right. You had to ... reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  anyone else on the planet. What can you do? Keep on going. Make a plan ... . Lately, I cry … let’s call it a medium amount. Maybe you do too. Sometimes ... with certainty is that about two and a half months from now, our nation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  for contraceptives, then oh boy do I have a rundown for you. The types ... . tl;dr MIT has a surprising amount of options for taking care of your ... MIT - by the students, for the students MIT is a marvelously sex

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students ... a melody played by the elementary schoolers on [annotation note="a ... arrival of me and Colin, a PhD student also teaching at Shoqan. We went

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  notes during class. SLP is a tough, no nonsense master of productivity, with a work ethic I admire greatly. Offering me free academic tools and ... parents dropped you on the head as a baby. Now picture that resentment

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... ! This summer, I've come to realize my love for a certain being that has brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  learn a lot, and we're going to think that when you come to MIT you'll learn even more. So it's always a good thing to push yourself academically ... final before the class begins. If you do well you get to keep your grade
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  ; now, a few years later, we have taught them what they can, and they ... their origins as a class, here is what I told them:  Then, that August ... incompatible, emotions, a few of which I want to name and honor: - Sadness that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  earth" if humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war. Cockroaches do indeed ... going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  neck, you can see a silver SUV trundling down Mass Ave. My room has one tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  needing to eventually find a real job and about knowing what I want to do. I ... I want to do during each one, but this summer I want a taste of real ... teaching me things that I will be using in my future career. It is a great

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  tonight. You see folks, Sam feels a duty to you, his stalkers, to do ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... , having just wrapped up an STS UROP, now contemplating a second major of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  A lot of people at MIT were probably seen as the “smart” friend in ... “smart” friend was a piece of our identities, a point of pride, even. Maybe we weren’t the funniest friend, or the best listener, but we had a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025