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• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that ... refreshing drink as it is like getting punched in the jaw with a wet and icy ... Here's the thing about me: I'm naturally an introvert. Talking to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  them. The psets appear to exist in some sort of perverse dynamic ... adornment of an entire, modestly sized single room in East Campus. Which is to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  As is my style, I didn't arrive back to MIT until the last possible ... disappearing again. But the first week was still of note due, in part to Rosh ... Roxbury area of Boston, home to the largest mosque in New England. But, with

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  Japan-based company in Tokyo who attempted to be the first private company ... at least arriving to the moon is incredibly impressive.  But don ... could be compared to the nervous system of the lander. We were in charge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  't think much about it afterwards, but woah. That meant the world to me ... to do about it, in return. This led to the second profound moment ... was careful to look him in the eye. "I guess I have two main concerns

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... , or which order you chose to draw them in! So without even drawing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Leaving home…

  

  kitchen table on a daily basis is really starting to sink in. It's not that ... years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the ... travelling.] For months, I've been looking forward to the day I'd be leaving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 28, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... working in Mexico City, I got to go home for three weeks, the longest ... love to be in. The summer provides opportunities to learn how to navigate

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... Bombers or the Cultural Houses in New House). The walls are more likely to ... spring to celebrate Drop Date. Burton 3rd...is Burton 3rd, in all its glory

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... feeling in the air. Listening to the exciting vamp in the background

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  [/caption]     This is what it's actually been like for the most part.   ... code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is ... Junior year was a milestone for me because it was the first time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day for me, much like the day I bought my Mac, after being vehemently opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  Book, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side ... to Web design are limited). Also added to the site is a Webcast ... and discover what MIT is really like. The videos are one way to discover

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  "vegetabletarian" is more accurate.) Me? Not so much. For the handful of you ... in? Here's Veena '06, who lives in Baker House. Look at the ... As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  since then. Holla to the MA, NY, CT, NH, MD, RI, NJ, CA, MI, IL, IN, MO ... met this weekend!! :) (this is why I like to ask you where ya'll are from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... to use the remaining summer time to fall in love with the writing ... no idea how in the world senior year happened. This recently came to my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 ... 'll start with the question that seems to be most prominent: what does it mean ... over the Institute. The homework ("problem sets") at MIT is designed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in ... can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when ... also concern elephant-in-the-room topics--drinking, sexual encounters

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... that feels lost in the conversation is intersectionality. Six out of ... ’m lucky to be fetishized, that this is a form of acceptance. It is the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  back then I managed the walk to work every day in half an hour on my ... opposing windows to use in my EC room and mixed the air all up with the fan ... my room, I get to come back to it finally after the summer is over and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008