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• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  was the first day with the new time, and it was kind of exhausting ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... with). The three of us take turns running the meeting and share updates

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the ... last sentence. Yesterday, a bunch of us went over to the activities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  I found myself standing under the widest part of the Great Sail ... backdrop of the rain. It was abnormally warm – maybe as high as [annotation ... end of it; and the end of sophomore fall. Standing under the monument

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in a place with such a plethora of opportunities. In the fall of my ... focused environmental group run out of the [annotation note ... went with that one. Methane Bubble Traps The goal of my UROP is to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  trick is to add the oil very slowly at first, and to add a bit of cold ... restaurants that I had never eaten at before. Beyond the statement of the ... was comfortable, easy, and safe. Safe was good. So what was the point of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  attributable to the cheerleading squad.) I spent the first few weeks of the ... thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  summary of the report (only 11 pages) can be read here. I anticipate that ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the ... of the recommendations will probably start being implemented a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  scenes for ThesisNovel before I sent the first fifth of it off to my ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  don’t think majors matter,” I responded, with the overconfidence of any ... take the most of.” “That probably won’t work,” the teacher said. I ... student here knew the name of every course.  He said, “What’s that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  This is the first half of this post and it was written March 5th ... this at all, because the first time we went, all of us were sitting ... enough sense. 11) One of the first pies she invents in the show is “I don

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  of tea through the whole day. it was a ridiculous amount of tea. go ... . i finished the first season of the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya, a ... projects i had due end-of-semester. but of the four (yes, four, it

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

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the ... Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  whole world… in the pocket of each and everyone Magnetism is kind of like ... magnetic hard drives is widely regarded as one of the first major ... ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  't like the food from the cafeterias, there are a whole plethora of other ... 's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  career or classes to mark the passage of time. For me, that is pages read ... purpose of the blogs is, and always has been, to give MIT students a place ... students access to the interior lives of current students; a sense of what it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... ’s, and it sounded almost like the start of some rap song. Whatever it was

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... the whole, students are very collaborative if the class permits it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words ... half of those people identify as male, you dwindle down the pool of available men. Factoring in the percentage of the student body that you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  went.  The first ten minutes of our walk I was nervous. I kept thinking ... by Rebecca Solnit for the first day of the Wilds of Literature class ... . Firstly, I decided to write about my physical disability for the Wilds of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  continues on in the bracket. It’s a whole lot of fun, and a great introduction ... through the heart of the campus, the first whiffs of the patterns I ... guessed was that the first CPW I’d spend as an actual student would be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025