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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  We often think of innovation as tied inherently to engineering and ... microaggressions, the pressure to defy stereotypes, and the seemingly numb ... help you with?” I brought the story to Alberto H. ‘17, my best friend and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• 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 ... , and I began to run long distances again. I kept ignoring the pain, not ... running, and that pretty much cleared it up. That week, though. Jesus. That

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I ... Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... morning, I and half of MIT (I kid, I kid) awoke to find an email from Jess

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  and real time. And once you have a permanent living group, an informed ... conservative arguments, and actively decide to reject them. "Actively", as ... lived anywhere but liberal areas, and who don't expose themselves to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  ; Physical Oceanography from 1981-1983) and Course 23 (which used to be Modern ... expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  classes and your tests and your p-sets, how much time everything is going to take, and generally how to balance work and play. As I said once before ... - and the reason was because that's how much the blogs meant to me. During

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  . Everyone seems to know everyone and strangers at parties are never more than ... waiting to deliver my spiel but somehow couldn't find an opening. And then I ... alcohol pinned to the top of the aquarium. The alcohol diffuses downward and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  classical engineering as applied to biological and physiological phenomena ... flow external to an animal in motion, and the internal flow of blood, gas ... generous number of problems to be solved and a carefully selected list of

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  I troop downstairs once a day to practice, trumpet in one hand and ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... and picked up a trumpet. And got a 10. I assume it was for managing to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... either never actively chose to follow or chose and then forgot the choice ... with being productive was a way to simultaneously be happy and satisfy

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... them in the "Miscellaneous" category, and wondered if my posts ought to ... about how lucky I was to have the chance to attend, and one week freaking

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I don’t know where we’re going ...but we're following my map of MIT's campus.

  

  got lost on my way to 6.003: Signals and Systems recitation on my first ... major and I have no idea how to navigate all the crazy twists and turns of ... with MITblogs and high schoolers who are trying to schedule visits and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  and a much-needed refresh before returning to campus to start the ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you ... to blog more about my room and the renovations it underwent (undergoed

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  kind of unhinged humor that is unique only to Jenny and being bullied over text by Alan. and everyone else who I have failed to mention here, I ... much. I am taking relativity with Prof. H and Prof. E, both of whom are

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to get to some of the area’s most fun and picturesque spots, including the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  what if something happens to one of my friends and I can’t be there ... friends. We struggled to open old tubes of paint, and it was so hopeless ... Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  be a froshie and going to REX events (you have no idea how easily this ... remained undetected for the whole time, much to my amusement (yay for looking ... problems attempting to visualize things like U, q, w, H, and S. Meh, I get by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  in transit where do i go from here?

  

  needed to be. I've always very much been a more-about-the-journey-than-the-destination kind of person and I find it bittersweet once my train finally pulls into ... do to fix this?" and they look at me with sad eyes. What can I do to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  afterparty. There, I got to meet with virtual reality experts and learn more ... At CES, my friends and I went to some free concerts by Lil Jon ... to have new roommates and thus bond with more brothers. During this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  like 3% of our current energy comes from renewable sources, to be honest ... seen the MIT homepage today when you were like, "ARRRRRGHUS!! I NEED TO KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007