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• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... I made fun of him for viciously."]mashed potatoes[/annotation] next to ... lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT ... only be made if I have the privilege of stepping aside, and to be honest ... entire hour's worth of work, and was I really going to throw that away? I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... class of 2013, time to start thinking about your MIT application! I know ... last thing, you're going to have a lot of teacher recommendations and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  of Monday May 9. i had to present a project, which wasn't great, but as ... official last day of classes for everyone, i went to see the movie Jujutsu ... , but we all never had time to see it. thanks, MIT—at least all of us were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  of the main actors. We were supposed to show "21," the movie about the ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to ... how to crochet to one of my direct supervisors, which was how I found ... at the end when trying to stitch it together, the sense of achievement

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  step in the project was to establish a set of constraints such that a ... cartridges of 22 M formic acid at all times, that's going to add up to a lot of cartridges pretty quickly. And a lot of trips to Super Wal-Mart. Also, any

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Starbucks, I started tidying a little bit – only to realize that so many of my ... comfort of my bed. Amber's shoes under my desk, which she neglected to put ... little pieces of the people I surround myself with, and to remember the

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

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... , Jocelyn Bell paid special attention to the noise that she saw, instead of ... discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence, it would be old news to you. This

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Learned This Week notes and lessons from new classes

  

  and analyze a bunch of different assays to prove different biological ... took, and also my first introduction into how to do any of this (yikes ... half and tie it back to whatever era of Spain/Spanish colonies we

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of a steady rush of things-to-do rather than a series of breathless waves ... temperature of a room. If we want to be at 67°F but our room is currently at 70

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  location closest to MIT, is closing permanently :( Like many others, I’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go-to ... ’re probably splitting the bill, and I don’t exactly have tons of money to throw

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  is a whole room of professors to talk to about the subject. This is ... advice is to make a list of the classes that you're interested in finishing ... 've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures    

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... campus to see him. She just didn't feel welcome as part of that community

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... regular floor plan of our lecture space, just to get acquainted with ... work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a ... relatively long streak of getting automated answers! So the telethon seems to ... Bawls soda. Good times. Moral of the story: go to CPW. It's the best thing

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter ... for all of this? To find out who's the best Friends character? No need

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline ... disruptions applied generally to the cancellations of activities and exams due

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  reviews, but it’s Spring Break now and time for all of us to take a ... the day of the final review. I left several hours in the morning to draw ... expected 12 drawings of our 3D models, but I couldn’t get the program to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  alive so I can continue to work on gaining experience. So when one of the ... to a lot of unnecessary comparison and dangerous competition on my ... desk shift at 10 and went to take a nap. But, of course, I set my alarm

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026