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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  embroidery thread that has sat untouched in my drawer for seven years. (The ... enough to meet the standards for a contortion class. No matter how I ... . I like to think I'm good at it for someone who doesn't know any

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... reward for my effort? Will I ever? Because at MIT, I often put a lot of effort into my work only to receive bad grades for them. And sure, grades

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... rest of RingComm, presented our designs for the 2020 brass rat! It was ... for the presentation, so it all worked out! Kidist: After several

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  all my work to prepare for my boyfriend staying over, but now that he ... May 4th, which means that i won't see him or any of my friends for a ... and trivial. for example, when i draw, i'm spurred by the prospect of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  I've blogged twice in a week so it basically makes up for it. I ... to trivia games. Here is one of the design exercises I made for the ... for the bad wiring. I have never worked with a breadboard prior to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... where Ruby and Sapphire fuse for the “first” time again. Watching the cast

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  do my part for the statistic that 90% of students have had a UROP by ... by semester or department and search for keywords. ((Side note: It ... there are in their speech. For example: did you know that children often

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  for a ten day immersion into the epidemic. Taught by Dr. Bruce Walker ... . It doesn't take long for our heartbeats to naturally fall into sync ... for the future: "I'm going to finish the FRESH program and go to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so ... leave for class 3 minutes before it starts has been a game-changer. 3 ... my ID and being trapped in the lobby for all eternity. 2) White walls

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... take a break from the weird food analogy for now. (Sidenote: if by now

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... had to ask for the school to not put me in the lowest classes. Their ... think it would be better for him to start at the bottom and work his way

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  the noises of the world, even for just a couple of minutes. It’s almost ... can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... for a night. Often times, they’re even free! MIT offers so many free

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  there and felt my stomach sink. Wait, really? High school was easy for all ... junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In ... admitted here?” question in a very bad way. Everyone was ready for spring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  week has been really tough and really strange for everyone on campus, and ... searched for the Boston Globe article that i knew would have been written. i found it. i read it. and then i searched for the MIT admissions blog post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a ... people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late ... each set out to do our specific reporting! For me, that involved sending ... interview somebody for a news story, we have to look at the entire situation

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . Winter break as officially started for me, so life is pretty good right now ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... Simmons for the MIT community. Often times these are discussions

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and ... some fantastic art for your walls through the Student Loan Art Program ... ://listart.mit.edu/student_loan_art_collection. It’s a really cool program that lets you keep art for the entire

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already ... promise. There is, however, one analogy for which I cannot be completely ... Stata Center, I just HAD to take a picture. I've been here for only a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011