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• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in ... and midnight tea and cheese and cookies. I lived next door to Allan K ... , and there's this indirect but constant pressure for you to get some form

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  to upload ride data to Strava and Golden Cheetah, comparing critical ... semi-truck and had to abort our cannonball run.    Day three was a ... and Shaena showed us how to get our bodies out over the side of the bike

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  had a commute and a “9-5” job and an apartment to myself, and had to make time to cook and workout and sleep. Through it all I had many a ... min bus rides to class sound incredibly unappealing. As does getting

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  before I even feel close to fluent, so there's so much left to learn and ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  .001 and created audio-annotated PowerPoint presentations for each lecture ... hand gestures, bad jokes, pacing back and forth - to an inscrutable ... spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get ... want to take a semester off and just recollect myself and learn how to ... 'll continue to progress. And I won't. And I'll get left behind. There's a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... go and machine the part. So I came to 2.008, Manufacturing and Design

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  is tricky, because thin metal melts much faster, and it's easy to burn ... frame and lights around the edges to create a lamp for daughter. He ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  with mangos and oranges. To quote Eren '23, body pillows can be sold "at ... supposed to be thinking about Pytorch and graph networks, but my lizard brain ... looking for people interested in adding to my order and asked to add three

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  ) Return to the NRAO, to work with the same mentor and finish my project from ... . Some people said: you should absolutely go back to the NRAO and finish ... future graduate student Anna who knows how to focus on a project and see it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was ... to the US and to carry with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to ... the country SUMMER Flew back to the US and started my summer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  had when you came to MIT. 2. What the majors are and how much they ... , trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he ... ever. He said they're totally lost and can't talk to people and all they

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston ... Freshman Pre-Orientation Program, and was so excited to explore MIT for a ... ’s pretty much the pivotal element to many Orientation events. Believe it or

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys ... that much stronger at MIT – you need two Harvard geeks to equal just one ... or on your iPod. Aomawa was Course 12 (Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  room, and every laptop has a browser open to either google ... up and announces to the room that they were right, and everyone cheers ... . They had no idea what to do with all of this, and after hours of feeling

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , and Morgan doesn't want to "waste" grant money on a new ice machine when ... the project my postdoc and I have been working on to the entire Picower Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... the year, talked to some of the students, expressed interest, and ... activities. I don't know of any other school that does that... and IAP is cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  finished packing and headed to work ready to jump on the first bus after 5 ... back to the bean Pre-Entre Salad: To begin my much needed #springbreak ... assignments, summer project proposals, and chocolate. With a to-do list as long

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  granted -- it's a joy to have so much free time dedicated to learning, and ... 't get paid, but one day, you'll get paid and not have much time to learn ... relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  have to be accepting of who I once was as much as who I am. I signed up to   do this, and it comes with unique growing pains. I think that ... to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022