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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  I've talked a lot about Tagalog, and Tagalog songs, on the blogs, so ... are on friends / minsan, about Eraserheads's "Minsan", and soulsearching ... relationship with the Tagalog language. Similarly, On identity talks about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  weight dumped on me shouldn’t have skipped arm day everyday last year. i ... fills you now, glowing in your chest and shining bright on your ... badges on your dirtied skin. Come, friend, you too must die. It is agony

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  Disclaimer: I actually wrote this on my flight to California back in ... finish that one pset. Don't skip meals to study longer. Don't miss out on ... or even just on a casual Friday night. I personally love going around

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and the Disney World Marathon the next day on Sunday. I saw the picture of ... completion of the Dopey Challenge requires running a 5k on Thursday, a 10k on

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  , signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... land it sits on. There are immense green lawns, interrupted by trees and ... move on to Penn State, which consists largely (69% of main campus

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  measurements to my drawings, squinting and counting the lines on the ruler ... embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... option was back on the table. This time, I guided my decision

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to particularly focus on is the character named “Part of Me.” Plot spoilers begin

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  soulsearching / coding in which i ramble about careers

  

  , but I only worked on a side project with a research team, of about ten ... : Well, right now I'm working on a feature, right? I'm looking at the existing code, and it was written by some person. Then I need to work on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  park, making daisy chains, swinging on swings, etc, but compulsively ... , back to procrastination. Although I was Very On Top Of Things for MIT and ... what if the stars aligned?”  They didn’t, at least not on December 14th

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  . In 8.01 alone I spent nearly 7-9 hours each week on psets, and even ... , there were peers who were spending more time on the psets and not finding ... 't completely easy. I still had to ask for help on questions, but when explained

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  dining hall varied, depending on who you asked from “not fit for pigs” to ... to be stifling, but we found a way to rely on one another for ... mosques in return, provoking an equivalent assault on churches. The actions

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... . Some ISEF alumni, like Feng Zhang, are even on the MIT faculty. I got into Phoenix around 3AM on Thursday morning after a long, delayed, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  Before I go on, I need to comment: this was the day of the Doctor Who 50th ... was at 10am on Saturday. I showed up at 9:40 (we're supposed to arrive ... to try and 1) turn on the lights and 2) make the projector system work

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  advice on my papers which was really helpful.  I really enjoy writing ... ON BIRTHRIGH IT WAS SO GREAT!!  Birthright is a free trip to Israel for ... semester in a Chemical Engineering laboratory.  I am working on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on ... on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... tRNAs, are like three-pronged forks. On one end are three letters from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  world poises on the brink of possible war. Since the very early ... pummeling an enemy to the point at which rolling on the floor laughing may ... to them. The teacher would lecture on a particular theme or event – for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... teachers that focuses on math, science, technology, and engineering. Ward and ... . Ward and Landers, who attended the 2007 Project STEEM camp on math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome ... , a camel? Come on. Where did THAT come from? Why isn't it at least a ... , "unfortunately" just falls flat on its face. "Desafortunadamente," on the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  and because I had a lot on my plate. dropping a class definitely helped ... ="Independent Activities Period"]IAP,[/annotation] I took 68 units on top of a 12 unit class on [annotation note="this is similar to audit status. you have access

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  that was really lovely of her, especially because she had come in on a ... bought these on my very first grocery shopping trip of college! I felt like ... student who lived on our floor and gave us life advice

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023