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• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  average student takes while at MIT, it was a number I felt comfortable with ... different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... two record weeks of fall 2020.']at a level I had scarcely seen while at

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... .67 classes and a UROP all at once again (because come sophomore fall I’d take ... watch yourself break." But I enjoy — of course I enjoy, at this place

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always Rooting for the Anti-Hero it's me! hi! i'm [the problem?], it's me

  

  dominate my every interaction. Even at my happiest, there was still this ... this year when I walked into New Vassar dining hall at its peak hours ... at me, pinpricks on the skin. "God, why are all these people fucking

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 29, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  ="alignright" width="300"] The view from my window at dusk. I like knowing all those ... , let me assure you, it is completely impossible to avoid this at New York ... 're just--" (looking at phone screen) "Haha, yes, I see Sam's belly. No I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  's another thing I can't bring myself to care about, at least, care about ... square dancing at Tech Squares every week, which is about, I dunno, walking at a moderate pace for maybe an hour or so. I'm not a fit person. My

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to be calling. At the time, I was feeling incredibly stressed and lost in ... focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... ! Covid precautions at the time mandated that we reserve 30 or 60 minute slots at the beginning of the week, up to 120 minutes total, and that only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... (very, very important) just the fact that you’re not at home anymore and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  , but I'm sure at least a few of you will have the same difficult choice ... May. Spoiler alert, we were not back by May. At some point in April, it ... . At some point in this time period, rumors of what MIT's fall plans

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... replace it with "better" foods. I also wanted to try my hand at baking since ... to try my hand at an omelette. After watching Binging with Babish

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept ... -years take"]8.01 [/annotation] tutoring, but I haven’t even looked at the Pset

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  wanted to be a [annotation note="At this point, I was pretty sure I was going to go to school for chemical engineering, since I was ~good at ... prepare a poster for the poster session at the end of the summer, but I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  looking in. However, in late February a protest was held at the massive tent ... Criminal,” appeared on the windows of my usual second-floor study spot at the ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  scavenged metal from a scrap metal yard (3:02). She’s a mentor at a makerspace ... ’t just add another leg at the droopy part because that was supposed to be ... together the oven in the courtyard. Even with the extra leg at the droopy

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of ... I'm at MIT. Lone Digger by Caravan Palace - This song vaguely ... empty classrooms very late at night during second semester when I was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  . Last summer, I did MISTI Jordan, working at a pharmaceutical company ... treasured moments (sprawled on the pitch black sand in Wadi Rum, gazing at ... ), and the wild moments (like being stranded at a border and having a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  For the last 6 days, I’ve been at the Vision Sciences Society ... work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to the full-size version. I’ve been looking at how changing the title of a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... at it though--I haven’t really committed to anything beyond the usual ... class...probably could have at least a 0.3 or more higher GPA ^^; (look at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  time at the Johnson Arena from 8-9:30a every morning, so that's been ... . Here's me at one of the club's rinks, with the ice all to myself--one of ... bookings. I then grabbed dinner at Applebee's, just right behind the hotel

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  your tastes at Senior House. And if you can’t peg yourself on this either ... things not held equal. We might first look at demographic factors, as it is ... , action targeted at the dorm itself is worthless, especially the problems

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016