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• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  , my degree will say 2020, and for the most parts my day to day ... China, but it slowly starting to hit me that this year is the ‘easy’ year ... the whole “I took a year to study in China, but I studied Chinese, so it

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  ="94970" /] I made a proposal at the last house meeting to buy a drum set for the ... table that is now less cool in comparison[/caption] I live in Simmons Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... juniors we were all pretty much in the same spot. None of us would be going ... the first friend in the group to suggest the idea of taking a Leave of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... . It's all free, too. But the thing is, you have to move fast. Running ... 't posted in awhile, and hey, I don't think I was hired because I'm the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  , because everything almost felt too purposeful. Most of the art I made was to ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This ... time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  acceptance rate is 8.2% overall. Now, I'm not the top kid in my school and I ... that everyone has an 8.2% chance of getting in? No! The 8.2% is the ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... cookies, but in the end, most of the people are there for the cool kids: the ... burn up in the atmosphere? SpaceX is working on reusable rockets that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to ... Institute of Harvard and MIT, he's got a hand in most of the things that are ... , he says, is no less than to reveal the molecular basis of human disease

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car ... new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  conclusive proof that every geek in the world wants to be the master (I ... ." Unfortunately, there is only one way to become a master at MIT and it's in only ... into the laces but that'll wear off in time. MasteringPhysics.com is an

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  solvers in Boston were excited to start solving, so most of the people who ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... /mysteryhunt. The community used to be based on large-scale in-person events such as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wanted to major in, and, hey, if one of the professors in the department ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  is almost orthogonal to the previous discussion” Translation: “This is almost completely unrelated to the previous discussion” Explanation: In ... trivial solution to the Pythagorean theorem a^2+b^2=c^2 is a = 0, b = 0, and

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A circle of shared breaths rediscovering synchronized skating at MIT, by Eleanor L. '27

  

  pushing to be included in the Winter Olympics and gain more recognition ... completely new to the ice. Everyone is welcome regardless of their skill level! The club is very flexible. Members can skate as much or as little as

  • by Janet G. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  most important unsolved problem in the field. I want to close with a ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about ... . For example, in our codebase we use Redux Toolkit. To understand the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  Beaches and Bioreactors summer is gone and I'm trying to move on

  

  . Now that afterthought is rearing its head in the form of several problem ... did it in reverse. While the ping-ponging got tiring, it was worth it to ... classes in calculus, physics, chemistry, and writing. It is designed to help

  • by Nicholas R. '29
  • September 25, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  afford to relax. I read an interesting article in the New York Times a few ... to ride in a chariot, it was priceless to see the reactions of passers ... , and the depths of hell open to swallow you whole, rejecting you from all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014