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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  So, MIT is hard. I figured this out after I noticed that I’ve stayed ... . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... stressing out about trying to understand physics and chemistry, I also get to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... the information will be available in September. We're still ironing out ... system! In the meantime, you can watch me talking at Maker Faire last May

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  is the picture i have in mind: i was so preoccupied during undergrad ... set in stone as i imagined: i’ve already switched jobs and roles, signed ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components ... components that I was planning to use, but alas no. I can't find a suitable footprint for my USB-C port anywhere on the Internet, so I figure out how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy ... mustache, for one. I wanted to major in Computer Science and graduate and ... . (Disclaimer: I did always have an interest in bioengineering, but i just didn

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial ... were real when I arrived in America. Even the night sky looks different

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous ... . But I’m writing this primarily because I believe that that can change

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and-maybe-even-smuggle-out-in ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... ’ budget. I live in Burton-Conner, so I have the choice of enrolling in a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I had ever played tuba. I figured out that you can just not press down any ... competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  ever get more interested in wine I’ll try them out. [caption id="attachment_72505" align="aligncenter" width="500"] all i can say is it was rosé ... , after all), which I enjoyed as much as I can enjoy wine (wine is just not

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  out of Legos. You know, you can get a UROP here? I mean c'mon, who ... happens in there. I've found that it's sometimes easy to forget that this ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... back, Anirudh '16 and Samvaran '12 busted out some dance moves in the ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to ... that I have four exams in the next week. Like the Goldberg Variations or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... Engineering department, informing me that I needed to fill out my degree ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near ... the strength to be graceful. I kept taking classes in freshman and ... foam was all in disarray. If I were doing cool hard stuff, the way it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... , ethnicity, and sexuality in both critical and creative work. Limited to 13. I ... 3 paged comic script. Like I said in the post, this class is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... check out his coverage of Piano Drop in this entry. Ken, Teresa '11, and ... I should have posted this entry five days ago. Sorry, world. But as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the ... getting more and more tired and a fear of slipping creeps in on me. I squirm ... follow the other path I was considering where I'd stay in Paris.MIT gave me

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023