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• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... , and cosmic magic. Part of the team trying to send humans back to the ... look like. Part of a community nonprofit, working to help energize and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... ’s fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and ... now, this has aged horribly thanks to my lack of 2020 vision. Though to

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that ... . Have to store all of your luggage in the overhead bins, annoying if you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the ... assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... our poster to the greater MIT community at the end of the semester. The

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  desperately to lower the temperature of my face. No luck. I fiddled with the ... On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... spectroscopy to characterize hundreds of molecules. He began to notice patterns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  to people should be gendered at all, instead advocating the use of a ... to my mom, her initial opinion of this was sort of like, “that just ... sort of the way we’ve always done things as opposed to being an extreme

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... would be reluctant to go seek out the company of others since the ... responses of your friends vary, and it's fun to discuss different answers when

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... semester's worth of film, but also access to three printers where I can print ... yellow ink to make orange, instead of using red and yellow dots. Our first

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others ... couple of days, and it's time to take a break. As you wrap up your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always ... happened to be reading the article about the Battle of Gettysburg, which was ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  Regular Action — 28,232 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2028. As of (checks watch) right now, we have offered admission to 1 ... , and other areas of scholarship to work wisely, creatively, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  how to talk about anything but science? A. Well, most of us don't. But ... host to a wide variety of versions of campus life -- from the typical (intramural sports) to the "only at MIT" (hacks). Check out our list of student

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... , he returned to the US in 1960 because of the Cuban Revolution. Before ... , and textile systems. His office is home to many of these devices and it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back ... order to maximize the amount of information that I am able to distill into ... columns to maximize the amount of space used. Color coded headings also help

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float ... judgmental about trivializing worries about what to make of your life, how to ... of making it to the end of the day alive is the mere surface of worry

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  end of the semester but not necessarily ready to solve any problem you ... going to bed is better than continuing to study? When will the benefits of ... and at some point you should just go to bed. I ask all of you to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How A Blog Became A Community ...in which The Nance waxes philosophic about The Nance Effect.

  

  bandied about. To me there are few concepts more sacred than that of ... witnessed many of you struggle to make sense of the pain and disappointment of ... respecting points of view that were counter to your own personal philosophies

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Some Q & A about the waitlist.

  

  spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to remain on ... of you may be saying, "C'mon, MIT is really good at math. They have to ... the second. This shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... wandering around trying to process the vast, VAST array of poster titles ... was important. So there! I went through waves of vertigo. I went to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013