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• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of ... , 3 syllables, and a literally self-explanatory spelling, even official

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I’ve spent my fair share of time on Tumblr as a teen, and I went through a dark

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... 3.020 each counts as a half CI-M because of course 3 lore reasons"]one-and-a ... two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation ... spring, I started talking to a postdoc (Binbin) at MIT's ice rink ... long enough to practice jumps on a public session and decided to just

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... suitcase into it, I realized with dismay that its floor was slick with a ... blog post a lot more dubious. Ew."]There were also a couple of food

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Introducing the baby bloggers! but read it intrrrrrrroduuuucing, like I'm a very excited announcer

  

  coming alive, and here on the blogs we have a fresh new crop of baby ... -two applications, went back and forth for hours, wished we could hire just a few more ... give a warm welcome to: Andi Q. '25 of South Africa, connoisseur of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  those people. I was a good student. I defined myself by that quality more ... .  It felt like a tragedy, then a failure.  Here's a bit about me. I started senior year with two majors, a minor, and a 4.8 GPA and a habit of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  conversations with friends so many different ways to feel lost

  

  m: i've been having a lot of trouble blogging lately so i'm thinking of doing a blog that's just like, conversations i've been having with ... too much extra context thoughts? p: that sounds like a good idea

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  a build lead, despite having zero experience with mechanical ... administrative things and stuff. and there's a decent amount of that, like writing safety plans and looking up materials online. well it turns out being a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  COVID-19 really took a toll on student summer plans this year ... . Although I would not have believed this for a second had I heard of it ~4 ... land a job at Twitch for the summer about a month before COVID-19 hit the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note="a ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a ... straight up didn't have time for anime at MIT!!! I didn't watch a single

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of ... that the pipes (a "symbol of the Anthropocene") are drawing our attention ... ". Funnily enough, just a few hundred meters away, a renovation was being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... Hampshire, an autodidact dancer (and dancing autodidact), proud author of a 200 page fanfiction about volleyball anime and survivor of a Snively

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof jacket and a waterproof backpack this year, so rain is something i no longer dread"]rain.[/annotation] i'm definitely going to be a little

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have embarked upon a journey -- a long journey! An arduous journey! -- to visit ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a ... friend and neighbor (the one with green hair) is a pet mom to two bearded dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

  felt like the dunce. I got rejected from a club or two or three, sometimes more than once. I felt like a quitter when I left things I loved to ... ’s and sweats became the new fashion. I’ve done research as a freshmen, a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... creativity, product design, working within a budget, and gain unifying ... mockups; embodiment design; and construction of a high quality functioning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of ... death*. There was also a nifty waffle maker that we may or may not have

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015