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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  freshman year of high school, I didn't put up any decorations on my walls ... that way for four years. This led to a bad habit of me pushing all the ... -cultural appropriation hanging bead doors on my closet for most of elementary school

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  one of my longest friends at MIT through this research. it just ended up not being right for me in the long term."][/annotation] Nothing else I tried was any better. Twiddling with dimensions in SolidWorks for

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , and I’ll probably read another book after finals. For now, here are the ... . Learning and understanding my faith was one of my goals for the year, and ... English and Amharic, so it was nice for me to review a little bit of my

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  that I've picked up on that I realize are not quite the norm. Being home ... MIT that seem normal once you're here for a while, but you realize are ... 't that bad. You pick up on the numbers really quickly. Within two weeks, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  This is my final paper for Science Journalism, a science writing ... for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many ... enjoy it, for a glimpse of a hot field as well as a bit of the research

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  roads that seem too narrow for two cars to pass. Only slow songs come up ... than (1/x) for years. He knew how to set up integrals for his equations ... that list to the ones that are most palatable for a blog. # I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Hydranting My Spring Semester 5 stages of courseroad grief

  

  switching out of Course 20 Considered signing up for both classes and only ... [annotation note="very helpful class planning website for MIT students that's updated for each semester"]Hydrant[/annotation] and[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan for GTL. Doha was the most common layover when traveling to ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a "stopover program," for multi-day layovers with free/heavily discounted hotel

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  do things. take this post, for example. i’ve been sitting on this post for nearly two months (?!) - i told myself it was writer’s block, but ... you think you’re on the right path for you at the moment, you might wake

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  to Harvard. I even had a recommendation lined up from a Harvard ... blogger. So I stayed at MIT. I could still take up to half of my classes at ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  Hayden for the next few hours.” I hadn’t thought about experiences like ... have fantasized about waking up, going to class, eating, working ... sobered up from. Which is sad in some ways, but also an inevitable and

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  York Magazine's picks for the fall. Junot (we didn't call him Professor ... about the eleven years it took him to follow up on his best-selling, six ... 's another juicy quotation for the click-averse: "Then Díaz more or less

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... things a little differently. Here is this incredibly artful for those of ... start setting up camp, got a little more into the whole pirate mood than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• FAQ / Testing

  What are the MIT test codes?

  MIT's code for SAT is 3514 MIT's code for ACT is 1858 MIT's code for TOEFL is D021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  , I went to set up and run the activities midway booth for Chinese ... ; (True story: agonized over this title for days before giving up and going ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  kitchen, somnambulant and predictable in my unending search for caffeine ... ’ve struggled in the past to establish a healthy routine for reading applications ... hyper-productivity where I worked continuously for hours until my cases

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 4-page paper. These are graded for completion! The format is hard the ... for 5 lab sessions and write an associated paper + presentation (I did

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  -taking fee. As we sat on the roof for about an hour, a sound crew set up for a ... pour concrete into its base. The tower actually ended up leaning even further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... more on its pictures to tell story rather than its dialogue. For our first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  miscommunication with a German ticket officer that ended up with me not reserving a ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006