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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... better, and on and on. To answer these kinds of questions, you first have ... my extended family lived on other continents, many of these people were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  phrases on five slips of paper. Fold up these pieces of paper, stick all of ... and start drawing slips of paper and acting out the phrases on them. The ... discovered while trying to verify the title of this entry. Oh dear, I wasn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  of new sick people. I went and checked on them - I brought them bags ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door.  Many of us Medlinks in East Campus ... her a glass of water and some paper towels. On the way back to my room

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... learning new things. But I've never been the type of person to, say, read a ... , and would get to work on lots of cool projects related to my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  the course of my life and set me on a path to learn more about ... heels of deciding on MIT. One of the dangers of staying in the same place ... past six years. Okay, well that may have ended on a bit of a nostalgic

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... ="78902" /] These trips took up a lot (if not all) of my weekends, and so on the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  visit a couple of weeks in. As shaky and new as it was, my status as a ... vision of myself five, ten years from now looking back on the time I spent ... specific set of passions; any mark they want to leave on the world is

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  assembled and ready to take on one of the most notoriously demanding classes ... research projects we would be working on for the rest of the semester. It ... based off of my conclusions, then wrote a final research paper on the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  instead of people. In any case, pursuing hands-on experiences in college ... , there was a lot of melted plastic on my motor by the time I'd finished ... a week. Fortunately with hands-on skills it really is a matter of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... question, which is why I went trekking to Professor Warren Seering (my new advisor)'s office on Tuesday in search for the answers to life, the universe

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... snack on hors d'oeuvres, contemplate the lack of financial support for our ... . "Frictional Properties of Graphene on a Functionalized Rough Surface

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  my mind theory and impact existed on two sides of an impenetrable ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on ... focus on theoretical ML, but in fact, most of the work looks like this

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... night. It was like hitting a huge, much-needed reset button on my life. At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... events, and generally makes this one of the most BAMF weekends on the East ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining. You ... administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this ... favor of it). On Thursday evening, there was even a sit-in protest in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... taking place on Allston St. Pictures and news of it were circulating all ... chairs on one of the docks on the Esplanade and sat there watching the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  and a source of information as the internment period dragged on. By the ... work on my bio and history research...>_____>) At the end of the ... finding my new home for the next 4 years :) Anyways, that is a lot of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  rearranging the calendar so Christmas falls on New Year's day instead. We ... % of annual time) where we go to class, typically weekends and days off are dedicated to "catching up" on work and usually IAP and Summer are

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  The POWER of a Mechanical Engineering

  

  in Japan; research the potential of shale gas as an energy source at Iberdrola in Spain; conduct experimental investigations of rheological ... Monterrey in Mexico (to name a select few). In fact, a total of 80 Mech

  • by MISTI Program
  • December 7, 2011