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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I ... year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot ... asking myself the following: What story do I want to tell? How does ... the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  of rigor and pace. I also need a lot of reinforcement to grasp a ... does it really take to get in and whether or not I still have a shot at ... of need to have a Ph.D or will a bachelors or a masters get you a good

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  textbooks, PowerPoints, social media, newspapers…anywhere there is a need to ... into one of several buckets. In order to do this, we need a lot of ... order to verify the quality of our "cleaned" results, we need to choose a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  smart! That girl you have a crush on thinks your ability to derive is sexy ... for picking up women Doodling away at a billion different ways to ... would be an awesome movie). I was probably a little too excited to finally

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  just too much of a standard to live up to. I had a friend of my ... smart people *cough group project partners*) I was lucky to have a ... was a few more meters away to say things outright. I was a girl; I wasn

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger

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

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  need to get in? Because I only got a 1590.” How do you plan on ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or ... are you most likely to ask on a campus tour?  what do you mean

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  fingers that shakes a bit when she thinks about how much she struggled to ... ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="93299" /] ---🍂🍂🍂--- Living off campus has also created a much needed layer of ... East Campus though. The activation energy needed to hang out with my ... only know a medium amount of something, versus needing to know a lot

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  area, where he works at a pretty awesome solar energy startup called Cool ... always love being around people who love to create. So you can imagine my delight when a few weeks ago Greg called excitedly to tell me that my visit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... next to me and was like, "Got a drink?" At that time I knew it was time ... ever since I'd spent 11 hours seated next to an overly large man with a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  countries and people need to give much more aid than we currently do. The ... book and annotate it because there is so much I can learn to grow as a ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  window is fixed and with a screen. But that day, there was no screen to ... . We honor Squanches and eat a whole lot of pancakes. Perhaps one of ... can see, he is very derpy. Derp Cat is not smart. He is not smart at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context and think, do i really need to list out everything going wrong to feel ... reason enough. it is weird to say that even sadness is a rich feeling

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... purchase a solar-powered biodiesel station to make their dream of turning ... must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and ... cover a small stream, using concrete to create a small clean reservoir ... rebar and all that; that’s what’s needed for it to be a clean drinking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  do for the project. But I need to accept that it would take too much ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... energy and trying to stay critical of my expectations and conscious that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  a fear of heights and needles. I am smart and capable and ready for ... have to work for it. Despite that, I didn't expect to struggle this much ... went over. I felt like a detriment to my three-person team, as I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019