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• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  inboxes at the end of freshman year.  my letter, written while walking home from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of ... .906 (linguistic study of bilingualism). at the end of last semester, when i first

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  term was not bad at all, but I still haven't achieved my MIT goal of ... 'm terrible at all of them. Well, I'm not bad at "Darris-style" ultimate frisbee ... and see if I responded. Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  able to categorize supernovae, we need at least one week of continuous ... requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  those at MIT? Is it easier to get a good grade because of grade inflation ... entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  research at the meteorology institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and ... days, it can be ten to fifteen minutes of standing at the stop. Generally ... at work until 5 PM, I’m not going to be productive for the rest of the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  , Remember telling pick-up lines at the FLP talent show? I was scared of making ... light at the end of my tunnel is not visible yet, where you follow life ... In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  not to do that. And here's Ling '07 at the top of one of the spires ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION: In Germany, the energy content of ... , for the low, low price of 1,50 euro per hour. However, the upper room

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  , philosophical, and ethical look at the future of biotechnology. Despite it being ... from graduating seniors at my high school that the social aspect of ... spend most of my time anxious meeting so many new people on campus at once

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... people of relatively equal weight going down at the same time was not a ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  -sized, in fact, at least, in terms of cyclotron. The final machine is about a ... supervision of Prof. Janet Conrad, at Fermilab near Chicago (travel and housing ... (Course 2, of Skullhouse): "I'm working at ARES Corporation with a few

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... dinner at the Mall of America and celebrated a successful close to the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  start a movie at the same time like one of my friend groups did yesterday ... so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... ....chances are that you're bored out of your mind. you probably miss your friends a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  lot of fun, and the thought of performing them at Mocha Show in February ... able to find it last-minute at the start of IAP--it's possible, guys ... up stockpiling a lot of random ingredients that you need to use all at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  super tired at the end of the day and usually just went to bed, but i ... of really cool things, such as [annotation note="although i found out ... of things to learn for a while and i'm glad that i finally got around

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  Dear Applicants, Each year at this time, I feel an overflowing amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and whirlwind-feeling, but also sometimes very slow and dragging all at the same

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story ... some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of ... realized that I was in the lower half of the distribution of blogs by various ... various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013