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• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  my STORY of helping Wyoming students shoot for the STARS get it? do u get it??

  

  road tripping through small-town America is learning about the culture ... is beyond what they had when they first walked through the doors, and ... job is. The students were beyond grateful for the chance to connect with

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go ... floor of McCormick Hall in Room 239, where I stayed my freshman year, is a ... shouting “my laptop is in my room” became relaxing. My laptop is in my room

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... -parallel) lines define a point. This is a duality! Points and lines are clearly ... . Applications to engineering In addition to being fun to think about, duality is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  school is what most people would associate with the art – following step ... intricate structure. The Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (FIT) is one of my ... assemble as its cousin (the FIT), this model is actually two models in one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... very different from each other, but i don’t think one is more interesting ... . this is a disorienting realization to have because i’ve spent my whole

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... graduating seniors, the summer is our last chance to vibe before we start our

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  writing class, and a thesis prep class. “I understand the ‘buffet’ is ... being a student whose sole responsibility is to learn. To find answers to ... -deprived, doing this is one of my favorite parts of the day. If I have time, I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  regardless of how I avoided the plague for so long, the fact of the matter is ... understanding, which is a fact I attribute to the MIT's culture. On the one hand, we all have work we need to do, and the last thing you'd want is to get

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... talk about what WILG means to me, I would say something like: it is ... with their lives after MIT. And this is still true, yes, but I've also

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  magician Not only is any sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable ... , in fact, is my definition of magic – competence so much more advanced ... is magic in february one of my friends was complaining about their

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  questions is to just go with your initial instinct instead of trying to ... behavior in a given setting is to experience that setting i liked that ... theorizing quite often (of course this entire post is just me theorizing some

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  sorrow, but somehow, emptier than I had ever felt before. “Your joy is your ... sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup ... ? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in ... , everyone sporting Rush T-shirts from years past; on the back of each shirt is ... , everyone’s focus is shifting. EC is here and I’m living in it, but it’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... Vegas). This flight is 6 hours long, but for the past 6 hours, I’ve been ... . This post is hard to write. Not in the emotional “I’m not ready to say

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking ... sofas and you are set! McCormick Front Lawn - all you need is a picnic ... naps here. Dorm Room - what fun is there in that? Classes That Changed

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days, there is a blog post associated with that day. This is in spite of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  ...! walking around Cambridge, even when it's bitterly cold and dark outside, is ... video games ([annotation note="trying to see what nisha's hype is about ... since writing is fun and writing about meaningful parts of the MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  double. My room is huge, and I have two sets of furniture, which really ... Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able ... the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  trying to make it through the hell that is an online semester. So far, I ... here are some highlights. Our MIT Wall This is one of the first things ... apartment cozier. I believe this is a pile of casting material for a class

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, with discussions of how policy implementation is influenced by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020