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• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  still have a cloud looming over you of some unfinished task. There’s a lot ... my grandparents. Even after we left Russia, my grandparents on my mom’s ... little. It’s so important not to prioritize career over family. You don

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though ... discovered a new application for Newton’s Law of Conservation of Energy, which ... -desk over their pset as “sleeping”, it’s an even better 1:1 ratio. It’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  disbelief. He’s about going to bed right now, and I’m typing up this blog post ... happen simply. In stories, in fiction, there’s always the sense that the ... spoke with James Deng after he got back to the room. It’s only just

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of ... attached, despite everyone’s insistence that I had doomed the shelving unit ... to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  sense to them and they hated it after that. It's a sad story. Math ... 's really closer to what mathematician John Allen Paulos calls numeracy. It's important to distinguish mathematics from numeracy in the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  Gerberding’s experience in medicine and public health and that she was named #12 on Forbes Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Women” list in 2005 ... Gerberding and the CDC are trying to address is the fact that the U.S. is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and ... guilty of this, because even though it’s completely expected, it’s still ... part isn’t actually the lower temperatures—it’s how abruptly the weather

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  junior who also happens to be my little, and she’s going to show us around ... Kitchens: 1 Alpha Chi Omega Right across the street from Aphi is AXO, so let’s ... !! Natalie is every parent’s dream: a pre-med and a computer science major and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  . I’ve loved getting to be a part of my friend’s next steps in lives ... since graduating. Balancing everyone’s constraints while holding our own ... (for anyone planning a wedding, I promise it’s worth it). My bridesmaids

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  every day. It feels strange when it’s not on my finger. I panic when I can ... . He was an MIT graduate from the 1970s, and even decades later the ring ... walking into an axe murderer’s lair. But I felt a sense of trust when the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... Residence Exploration (REX!!), where they'll explore MIT’s many different ... “college experience,” whether it’s becoming best friends with your roommates

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  not very legible but it’s cool that they’re there *should* earn the ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice ... pour in every half hour less quiet 5. hayden it’s not like those

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school ... instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first ... read sheet music off your tiny loaner iPad?” That’s where Fred comes in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  weird.  Drawing has been a lifelong passion for me. It’s a release, my ... for breakfast. It’s not like I have my life completely together though — there’s always too much to do and not enough time. I’m trying to be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  majors here, and it’s hard to choose. # “What course are you?” a tour guide ... student here knew the name of every course.  He said, “What’s that?” “Engineering and humanities.” It’s a sort of joint major where you can do more of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  forever. It’s as the old saying goes, you know the one about killing your ... .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  seriously:  pay attention during REX.  Having fun at a dorm’s quirky event ... tell you stories of what living in McCormick is really like because it’s ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  ’ve heard, but it’s cold in Boston right now. Like, really cold. Arctic tundra ... was actually the warmest that it’s been outside in a week. This has ... obligations and a near-empty campus. It’s pretty cool to be able to focus

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ...  (pictured below from left to right). When Jingwei invited me to Lambda Tea’s ... Tea-do (one of Boston’s very few boba shops) when he realized that the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  finished. I want to hear about how the semester’s been tough. Heck yes I want ... happens in a person’s life that “good” doesn’t quite cut it. It doesn’t even ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017