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• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  !"]Simmons[/annotation], and then we walked over to [annotation note="another dorm, where a bunch of my friends live!"]Next[/annotation] to hang out for a while. Around 10, I left to pack for my flight home, but instead ended up walking out

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... undergrad, I found it difficult to context-switch between so many obligations. I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  during late September, I made it a goal to make the most of autumn ... comparatively easy it is to visit new places or even new states! So far, I've been able to explore a little more of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many ... Screening of EEAAO - March 27 Springfest 2022 - April 30 Flight to SF

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... Alan sent out invites to join a summer poetry group — summertry, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... local sports store. It was supposed to be a prop. I was subscribed to ... told all of my friends that this was going to be the summer that I was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  products that I feel the immediate need to have in my possession: Sanrio ... loved most was making food in the kitchen, jamming to my favorite songs ... , but they have a tendency to make food in ridiculous quantities, so

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts ... to sing, and, accordingly, put people into various duos and trios that ... the end of the semester, we were asked to record those pieces and edit

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  to the end to find out what this is ;)[/caption] Last month, I had the ... to update this post once they reveal their identities ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus ... member, and was on air within weeks. I've continued to remain involved ever ... responding to the rare complaint from a listener"]programming co

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  I had a plan for this blog post: I was going to build a ... freedom, and many people build lofts for their beds in order to acquire more ... about it. Then I had another plan for this blog post: I was going to build

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  break, I applied to a UROP (an undergraduate research opportunity, aka a ... 't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the ... trained, so I feel much more qualified to write about it! It's a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present ... thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  to do it had our freaking amazing friend not helped us from 11pm - 2am ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans to shield ourselves from the heat. Anyways, we also learned how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently ... were ferried in to Hacienda la Verbena by the advanced food recon team of ... cart for a store fixture, attempting to remove items for their own use

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... “your ideas are valuable, but you tend to keep quiet during meetings.” So ... about becoming a section leader was that I was responsible for helping to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  Now that it's too late to turn back you've decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  out to be so bad, and I had a good reason: I was in Israel. Going to ... on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically means all the MIT crew teams ship out down to Cocoa Beach, FL, and spend

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011