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• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  one Living alone is easy It's keeping someone that's impossible in ... on in my life: it feels like there's nothing going on. or maybe, more ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... in the 60s by a ragtag band of hockey players that has since evolved ... that we were ever good at hockey...we’ve been in the D-D+ league for IM

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to ... not pay it any attention. In those ten minutes before I’m scribbling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... colorful checkered blanket in my backyard, diligently flicking ants out of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  lessons for 14 years, played the trumpet in concert band for eight years ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... highlights from the class so far: 1) Playing the organ in Kresge Auditorium 2

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... different. There’s so many types of puzzles, ranging in shape, color, and

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT housing over the summer, trickling in from EC and MacGregor on August 13th

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed every event individually, but, in combination, it exhausted me. I felt ... to make the exact same set of mistakes as last year. I landed in Boston

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ;start=100.22654867256628&end=130.01415929203532&rate=1 in this ... probably screwed. in other words, by the time he knows to look for the other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... Native artifacts, but which in hindsight were just fragments of floor tiles ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  semester. Without further ado...   Classes: 18.065 (Matrix Methods in ... in high school, so I sent Professor Strang fanmail, and he responded to ... ’t taken a math class since Linear Algebra in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  feeling disenchanted by a place that had been previously shrouded in a ... the best at something and everything, while in high school, I felt that ... /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS professors are top academics of the world. MIT is the #1 school in the U.S. in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  is Chris - I graduated MIT in 2011, and now I'm a 4th year (!) med student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Boy ... questions for Khan Academy and do Hepatitis B epidemiology research in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... half hour their voices floated in from the kitchen. “—and then Mrs. Essix

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012