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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... people’s electronics around Addis Ababa. Here’s a speaker he made for ... sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time ... take This summer, I scoured Harvard’s course catalog, looking for a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one-semester class) and runs for half a semester. i'm especially looking forward to 14 ... suppose this is my one Foundational Class With Unspectacular Ratings for

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend ... in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating ... drunk for the first and only time in my life Watching leaves change on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  sang was a farewell concert for our graduating seniors. Last night we ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... month. I am so grateful for all of this.   I'd like to think MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  a fraternity brother, then worked for six hours, finished by 8am, slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my ... , and I see so much potential for how virtual reality could bring us

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... ), and I meet my beautiful friend for lunch, and on my way home in the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code ... throats and chests. “Life sure does suck sometimes.” “Yea.” It was $6 for ... creepy. I don’t blame him for being dubious. We talked more. About tour

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... -pressure probably helped me. I made the cut, for the live round. Turns out my roommate ... meant we were up against each other for a shot at the finals. My roommate

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external ... to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  grand master list of links for any and all of you going to any college at ... Health and Wellness Tips for College Students (from Rutgers, actually ... Apps/Tools (I use Mint, it’s free and it’s probably overkill for college

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  topic for more than ten or fifteen minutes without starting to wander or ... gets to refresh until it's ready for another round of equations. It ... ?). It caught up with me pretty quickly, so I crashed for the rest of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  moment, I’m supposed to be preparing for a 6.01 exam on circuits tomorrow ... convenient excuse for not blogging since February - it’s not that I’ve been too ... .06 (Linear Algebra) after staying up most of the night studying for it

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  was just one calendar, for my friend's birthday. The year after, back ... in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... one of the photos. (He doesn't know this yet.) So be on the lookout for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... food item for the denizens of East Campus. Tetazoo takes FACs extremely ... Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  ’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink ... with the vibe and chatter of people searching for anything from clothes ... injury. It’s probably because for some, the uncertainty of fulfilling a

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

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  : Kickstarter, which is today launching a new funding category specifically for ... help promote the 'useful arts,' the 'arts' is short for 'artisanship,' as ... at MIT. Of those who responded, 78% said MIT's reputation for making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  more psets. No more classes. No more late nights cramming for midterms ... ’s something we all consider when choosing this fine institution. For every time ... and drifted in a sea of Rachmaninoff and Debussy for an hour and a half

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  (DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise specified, photo credit for this post ... dorm for all ~four years, communities are tight-knit and develop ... gifts for a randomly-assigned other resident. At the dinner, we make two

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013