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• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... principal confirmed the graduates, through the authority vested in them from ... for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my ... drive from campus). In the midst of observing Ramadan and searching for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  advisees to register for classes! In the meantime, back to unpacking. ... collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... ." *Differential Equations **The error function. It's used a lot in stats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  playing what is written in your music and playing for the purpose of ... in an orchestra, which is an especially great learning experience for ... , visited MIT last Friday to receive the 2010 Eugene McDermott Award in the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  meeting with my teammates for 6.033. Meet the Bloggers. A trivia bee in the ... . Saturday. Grilled burgers for lunch. The Activities Midway, in which I run ... . Words didn't need to be spoken. I run to my next event in McCormick for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  that this is the case for many frosh, in many different colleges. It’s a ... , sacrificing more time and happiness in exchange for hard classes and good GPAs ... ="the deadline for adding a class. If we wanted to switch in to 8.01, we'd have to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  person I could recognize in the mirror. If that is true for some of you now ... graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... . For me, and for you too, that time has both seemed too long and too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  a canvas for a beautifully illustrated stress sketch in the bottom ... programming and data science) in preparation for our final. We actually only ... like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is currently running around giving everyone chilly hugs. I’ve lived in Southern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  asks for input from the students on questions so we get in the habit of ... didn't go instead of facing the shame of walking in late. Then I went for ... DID YOU KNOW? If you drink one can of soda every day for six months

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year ... school backgrounds, and freshman year was pretty hard for me. So the fact

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It’s halfway through the semester, and I’m in this weird mood lately where I really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... arrived just in time for in-house rush and knew basically nothing about the ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  !), but RNAi, for example, was first fully characterized in C. elegans, and ... for that discovery (every once in awhile I will see Professor Horvitz at joint lab meetings!). Two Nobel Prizes in five years for a microscopic

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... events in 10 different colors) and I realized that if I cross my eyes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  in a new milestone for me. It was the first day of[annotation note ... exercise I did before for the program I participated in last summer. A little over a year ago in July 2019, I wrote a blog post for my summer program

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and ... everyday subjects in an entirely new light. The question then is, “Why didn ... far the experience has strained my brain in wonderfully new ways. Or old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Regular readers may recall that I've been teaching a bit in ... students pre-registered for the course, representing 9 different majors and ... with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  This weekend, in some order, I: 1. slept for twelve hours straight in one night 2. watched experienced the Rocky Horror Picture Show, live ... weekend. Because that's how it is in my head, let's go through these in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013