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• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  the pole. The emphasis on core strength is, if anything, greater than in ... something and now your arm is twisting backwards at a concerning angle. I was enthused with one particular leg choke.  This is all well and good, but it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  , rice is great. I'm a Filipino, so I love rice. Second, rice cookers are ... rice cooker. This is the rice cooker I have. There is only one switch ... is not expensive. It does not take a lot of space. And it cooks such a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  WOW CPW IS HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS!!! APPARENTLY IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES CALLED 'KAPOW'!!! IT IS STANDARD ETIQUETTE THAT ANYTHING RELATED TO CPW ... repeated in another section below, is: "As an LA native, please bring some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is why, if and when people ask me precisely what it is that I do, I ... time now, and it is the task for which I am paid; I am basically a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a ... .012, which is a 15-unit two-part class consisting of a structure of materials ... class is not just happening to me. Sophomore fall is the most difficult

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  float your boat. Although I recognize that (3) is usually the best course ... to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I both DON'T do something else, and feel guilty. Which is pretty much the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  WHY MIT IS AMAZING (as if you really needed another reason)ME: This ... sleep. (Note that this is possible only with recitations, which are ... now, which is probably better for me since I've taken a lot of chemistry

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  September Equinox Appreciation A Cambridge Autumn

  

  Greater Boston. I don’t think much has changed about how amazing fall is to ... is posted on Monday, September 22nd, 2025 at 2:19 PM Eastern Time ... the neighborhoods here are really pretty!” “But the weather is so bad

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  This is a blog by Monica C. ‘25 about her experience on the MIT ... technical prowess. This year is the largest technical jump we’ve made in my ... it takes to go from 0mph to 60mph"]0-60[/annotation] is 2.5 seconds

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... " align="aligncenter" width="1000"] my undergrad reputation is riding on ... number duty, and as it turns out, counting upwards is pretty damn hard

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... ). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of ... flawless design, but with the power of hot glue, it is indeed possible

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  B1ner Cribs come see 10+ rooms on Burton 1

  

  change the space with wicked lighting setups. So much is the same: our ... with me which is super fun. two people who are not me have slept in my ... ="99341" /] our room is decorated with posters and trinkets we've each gathered over

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 24, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  event is somehow both underwhelming and overwhelming. Underwhelming, in ... , in that everyone is there. There are few moments in the MIT journey where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of ... ="attachment_89533" align="aligncenter" width="289"] this is what the ddr screen + pads ... , and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  lots of twitter followers is great for your own account because ... realizing this is rarely the case this became really clear to me around a ... . that was the first time i understood that my life is extremely aligned

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  concreteness, here is the course load: 18.02 Vector Calculus. This class is ... this class. It is indisputably the most time consuming, soul draining ... "Everything is Media." I left that room with less brain cells than I entered

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  , mostly because introducing myself is way harder than I thought it would be ... (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these ... been told that tea is not very caffeinated. It took me an embarrassingly

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  like but also where it’s located, and this knowledge is helpful because ... in her dress, you marvel at how green the material of her outfit is ... is my roommate’s girlfriend)." "Whether we are learning to avoid the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  covers summer, but possibly the biggest thing skewing my data is the Great ... math at night is never fun. What I've found is that staying up late is ... in the laundry basket. Doing this is just a lot of effort, especially

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  coding class is super enjoyable. each assignment is like a puzzle and solving it is the highlight of my week. i'm a soPhoMOre — now, i'm on the ... bestows guidance upon the froshlings is very strange indeed. i don't have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020