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• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  an effective teammate and a good leader - at least, that's what they ... requirements"]UPOP[/annotation] a lot for this, even though at some points during ... my third term UROPing at the Personal Robots lab in the Media Lab, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  help out a friend, also at recitation, who hasn't finished the lab yet ... linguistics has also picked up lunch at stata; we walk over to the ... in lecture. 1.57 - 2.54 pm: i have a UROP meeting at 3 in stata, so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  the workforce, or at once on entering it. The author ties this burnout ... ’m actually not interested in discussing feminism today. (well, at least not ... job they get further ahead and are more satisfied at their job

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  multipliers in the same breath, where i get read and write (at various levels of ... been one of those weeks when lots of things feel at risk of going ... at the other person and all the stars align and you understand how and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  soul-consuming. Still, on October 10 at 6pm, I can feel my brain starting ... get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... 'm already aware of my miscalculation. I need at least three similar jackets

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... at this point, right?" to which they said, “No, it’s not!” To be sure ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  Tube channel SciShow. I'm car owner, or at least a car loan payer. And – dare I ... ? For now, I'm kind of just taking it one day or week or month at a time ... make a home in a place where, at one point, I didn't think I fit. I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood ... a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will lead another external training with health providers at a non

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  banquet. For $10 ($8 for members), attendees got to sit at round tables, eat ... real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... Lim successfully fooled them. I actually watched the YouTube clip at

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  and 8 hours at home, a 4-0-8 scheme. Lab/design/field work classes have ... . Plus optional blogging and an occasional weekend training session at Planned ... section at Harvard. 11 am is extremely early by local (and personal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... vulnerability lies not in my habit of smiling at strangers, but in two things: my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... ’s been fully booked, and that the restaurant is unable to steal from us at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... did not look closely. No one looked closely. At ten o’clock she walked ... outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan ... to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  aren’t classes? Are you resilient? Will you fall apart at your first few ... essay. It’s conventional to put background or context information at the ... conclusions and new information at the end. Sometimes people put a powerful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  freshman advising seminar 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I’m flabbergasted at ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the ... ’d notice unless someone told you, or you spent a lot of time looking at the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... health is a strategic national investment, and that we’re at a tipping ... health discovery to health.” She emphasized that bench research (done at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008