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• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  needs to be capable of being made somehow. 2.008 teaches us how to make it ... finished yo-yo compared to the original design. Pretty much the same. All ... Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  wrists wear out before the rest of my body does, and instead of waking to ... because they just hurt too much to continue. There are things I'd like to ... politely insisting that an injury be taken seriously. It's so much easier to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  were on hand for the event. You can click here to view the entire list ... recognizes and governs MIT's student groups. I love that students have so much ... does not mean lack of awesomeness... I missed more than 160 groups

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  never thought i needed to bike anywhere, but y'all, i was wrong. SO wrong ... "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... has never happened to me. given, i will need to identify where to lock

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  /quirky ones. 1) Accommodations What does “new” mean to you? The MIT dorm ... haven’t had too much time to venture out of Oxford, but the few occasions ... Happy New Year, everyone! As much as I loved the MIT gym, I don

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  some things that New York just does better. I had forgotten how ... I once took for granted tasted like a Michelin star meal. On Sunday evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in ... , they may still need a marketer or something else and just not expect to ... show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... carry-on (I didn’t need clothes anyway, since I wasn’t going to spend the ... don’t sleep much the night before (well, I don’t try to, but I usually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  's easier to tell what's happening and know what I need to do (and what I need ... time you need to rest and recover, both for your own future productivity ... cynicism related to one's job; and c) reduced professional efficacy. Burn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  sweat glands. The duck-billed platypus has no nipples. Thus, in order to ... arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now. My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  , inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram to Reddit but to no avail. Motivation was nowhere to be found (a.k.a. I ... throwback to childhood for some positive vibes) If you ever feel like you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  but one. You begin to doubt your once powerful feelings of belonging at ... a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  threat to America?" I mean, once you hear my question it's kind of a judge ... about that last blank entry. I'm looking for the "rebuild" button to get ... :43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  like paying that much money to attend the concert. And I wouldn't be ... 'using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit others as much as ... I once asked a boyfriend if he would give up his life for ten billion

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Our 2019-20 Application Essay Questions

  

  , or feel like we need to read the most unique piece of writing we ... compelling and interesting enough as you are (you do not need to be more, or ... prompts for the forthcoming cycle, so I'm posting them. I want to be clear

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  important my relationships are to me, and how much I'll miss them. the ... able to play the Taylor Swift song). also, this was my last birthday where all my closest friends were at an arms length. going out to dinner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  much like harder it's been to be engaged in general Kellen: Yea, man. It ... ." I guess the better question is, why do you feel the need to turn off ... friends like every other week or so, so the need to check in virtually often

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  . Concepts applied to simple computing circuits in the behaving animal. M. Fee ... only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... experiences of characters in "Sex and the City" are generalizable to people of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005