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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  the semester, is 8.033 – relativity. And yet, sitting in lecture, I ... "]tensor[/annotation] is. The problem is that physics is hard. Really hard, and in a ... meant to understand this in the first place," and, honestly, I stand by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  does not interest me all that much. My dream job in the Air Force is a ... what ROTC is unless you’re in it or you’re familiar with the military. I wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... , I’m shook. To me it’s quite clear that MIT is the place that makes ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... and lab, which is really kind of stupid if you live on the far west end ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  play in every piece, so I don’t have to go to the entire 7:30-10pm ... stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... ’t want to leave any of them, because they were all so much fun

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... shape in time to fill out the teacher application form for Splash, and ... that image came up in my google search and I decided to use it). The

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  still very much adapting to the new culture and life in general. I have ... . Usually, I am the one sleeping in 18.02 (10 am is too early for me to think ... class in the same department. The most enjoyable parts of the class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  denial, the gaping hole that the reader is forced to reckon with and fill ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  thanks to our sponsors and to the wellspring of resources that is MIT AeroAstro)--most ... we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in and loiter in the airfield for a day or two. Let's be clear--wind is bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... greater area, it is easier to navigate around them Harvard classes in ... transportation twice (or more) a week? As a senior mostly done with the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... wrote that. This is why for the most part my past blogs aren’t deeply ... translating to the breadboard. And the information I learned in this class

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  went to the Air and Space Museum in DC when I lived in Virginia with ... since everyone in the house was super excited to go and really had such a ... really miss going to the gym and lifting heavy objects and I think this is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ="Alan: I had a lot of fun with this, managing to get most of the songs in one ... , this is the year I was born. We like to remind each other of this, often ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  to take a pirate-themed boating/camping trip to Bumpkin Island in the ... ?! Jeremy '09 and Mark '09, who arrived at the island earlier in the day to ... course, to keep in the theme of the trip, instead of playing with mafia

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... completely throws us off to not have the majors listed in the following logical ... Admissions site that this entry links to lists the majors in alphabetical order

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  . The most basic building element is a point-like particle, which has ... pressure is just the momentum imparted to an object from light. Basically ... Devices and I worked in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab. So, see that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  'll add it to the map! Coming soon: possibly the most comprehensive guide I ... things on campus. I'd like to bring that back this year, along with a much ... 'm doing this semester is here - it's a guide to nice places to work on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it ... me incredibly giddy knowing that I get to live in the house with ... live in the house since I wasn't as close to DPhiE as I had hoped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021