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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  that just because something has been done for a long time doesn’t ... considering our evolving views about a gender-focused social system, we wouldn't ... This morning my mom showed me a newspaper article and asked me my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  definition of ice climbing, I don't know it. But a layman's definition might be ... repeat. (If that's not how you climb a ladder....well I don't know what to ... how do you tell the difference? You can't really. It's a lot of feel and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  that was a game." My top favorite Wikipedia articles Max Headroom I’m a ... If you can't tell from the title, I love scrolling through Wikipedia ... source. But can you use Wikipedia as a source of entertainment? If you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  to-do list." This time, I haven't written for a week an a half ... barely slept, my brain is completely liquid, I haven't had a real meal in ... had barely slept in the previous week, hadn't eaten a real full meal in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  I mention I'm anosmic?). But other jobs, like the MATCH school, don't ... engineering a person can take, but I have a high tolerance for music. I don't ... '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah ... get excited about. Currently, I'm in a cafe in "Old Town" Las Vegas, New ... and precedes a forthcoming trip to Kansas and Nebraska. The trip began

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  + weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  problem set classes don't have four exams. Most have two: a midterm and a ... don't need to have problem sets. A notable example is 6.101 Fundamentals ... other assignments, worth 14%. What about 21M.401 Concert Choir? It's a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  , and my study plan totals 31. I'm also planning to take a 2 week German ... I'm studying abroad next semester at ETH Zurich in Switzerland! (Or ... out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  pictures from the trip: We couldn’t resist. A pretty typical stream in ... side isn’t. GK Bibirao, a more rural village. Camarines Norte ... packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I can, I think I can The word "student" sounds like "study." I wonder if there's a correlation.

  

  say "I'm done." So how can all this be fun? Response 1. You never do a ... A couple days ago, I received an email from a blog reader who asked me, "Isn't MIT supposed to be super hard? How do you find time to have

  • by Bryan
  • October 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  , but I will continue reading them. I'm realizing it doesn't kill me to ... not helped you? If self-help books don't actually help, is it a waste of ... I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  out work experience. Oh, I'm a blogger! I finally have something to put ... bed and pull out a dress shirt, black pants, and a belt. I don't have a ... shirt. I don't have fancy shoes, so I plan on wearing a pair of chukkas

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  . Here are a few myths/traps. How do you know that you can't afford MIT ... -making clock begins. It is difficult to make a decision if you don't know the ... transition into a young adult. After all, isn't this one of the moments that

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  and I’m a senior studying Chemical-Biological Engineering (10B) and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the ChemE Undergrad Student Advisory Board, and a campus tour guide. Isaiah: I’m a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  was a lot going on, because there's always a lot going on. So I didn't ... coming through them. But I don't have a lot of artistic talent experience ... a kind of fade-out, but I'm not sure how noticeable that ended up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to bust out a 3D part. I didn't want my paper weight to suck. This had ... to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a.m ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015