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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  resources department released guidelines on the type of language they are ... pronouns on Facebook to “they/them” regardless of your actual gender in order ... opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it

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

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red ... ' airplanes. This is kind of uncomfortable for everyone involved--imagine if you

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You ... Time Magazine's Person of the Year. It's you. The person reading this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and two of them are technicals and two of them are not, but one of the not-technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is ... .) Unfortunately, I went to a big public high school of about 2000+, so my high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  . On top of the game itself, at some point your teammates cross a line ... ’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women ... comes to mind when think of MIT... I don’t blame you. In some ways, it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  and making flowers, so I squeezed a  on top of the cake instead. Then I ... dropped on a field from a helicopter. How cool is that? That’s the kind of ... When I think of suburban Ohio, my family’s current home, I recall the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  on who should be the next President of the United States, and there are ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... averaged 2-4 hours of sleep after that until finals week. Then I ran away and

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  southwest force on the stern, and the coefficient of friction of the seaweed ... . After that, I was working on my 2.001 pset, which thankfully didn’t cover ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  for me, as I spent all four years of college playing D3 soccer on MIT’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... % honest: MIT wasn’t even on my huge list of schools I was considering before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... of going on Reddit. A short time warp later. 11:00am Fishing For ... of them have in common though are the scale and weight of the exams

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I ... help on the mechanics of it, I'm not going to reinvent the wheel ... To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... conference of the Overseas Association of College Admissions Counseling (OACAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  myself as one of the afflicted). That was a funny thing to listen in on ... "Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems." This class is hard on me not because the ... amounts of time. Since some people did well on the exam, their exam scores

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... Student Center where they were showing a livestream of a One-on-One with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Pain for a post-On The Air engineer training (me)/post-radio show (her) "let's eat tons of food and talk about our problems!" dinner. While Peach ... that can only be described as Full-On Panic Mode. (I didn't get final

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... both in the context of writing a blog and in the context of being a friend. i was pretty confused, so i asked on twitter:  “a dilemma I

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled ... , on to very old pictures: The last lecture of 3.091 is pretty famous ... suck, so I suggest you check out the photos on page 11 of this issue of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  on the dry side. Instead of using a rice cooker, I was pan-frying the ... the ingredients clearly depends on the size of your rice cooker, so take ... juiciest, most delicious chicken and quinoa. This blog will focus on the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020