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• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  decided that I didn't want to play the HOW MANY TIMES CAN YOU USE THE WORD CURIOUS IN A BLOG POST? game) I will write up an explanation below. In the ... , ironically, curious about politics and history and how LCDs work. I didn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  the only method I am fully capable of doing after years of training in ... few parking lots around. I hear that driving in the city is no easy feat ... summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  Note: This entry is the second part of my blog last week, in which I ... -looking poster!   I’ve been fortunate in my life because I was never aware ... population, I never felt different for being a female engineer. In fact

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?

  AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  follow. my partner is lead, but so far, i can hold my own; he doesn’t need ... , lifting my left, as my partner nudges me in front of him. i shuffle my feet ... happen. by the time i’m back in my room, i have twenty unread emails, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  how materials function, and I feel like I can apply these to real life ... seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a ... with this is that I am literally in a pair of free Crocs I got at Notre

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  that we've taken (I'm a course 9 major and she's a double major in course ... I'd summarize them a bit so that prefrosh and incoming frosh can see ... procedures (e.g. "How would you separate sodium and potassium current in an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  wrestling can't be the only thing all 4000 of us have in common. I just don ... hear, they like human beings. Can't blame them. I have this idea in my ... doused in olive oil and parmesean cheese. On the way home, Adam and I got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can ... didn't notice how gingerly I walked. Eventually I went to MIT Medical ... sucked. I couldn't exercise by running, so I started lifting weights in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  in volcanoes, and I wondered, again, how grad school would suit me ... , and/or see people. I love the cafe in the morning. Classical music ... what the editing process will look like during school — how will I make

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  . I think, in amassing these colors, I was figuring out how to be ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how ... was my thing and I was making bank. But I can't tell you how many times ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  you can see in my bio, I'm a senior at MIT this year. I'm taking a lot ... on out, and therefore I can say, Hello! I'm Kim. Well, I guess I ... lab -- how exciting! I've also been working on assignments for my other

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are No Uninteresting Things I'm taking classes. If you ask nicely, I might tell you about them.

  

  like how MOSFETs work and signal filters. I can already tell that this is ... , so when I can't, I scour the internet for a quote that's moderately ... that I don't have to think about in the circuits that I design. 6

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  rules that be. In particular, I wonder who created them, how they are ... about how, in my sophomore year after breaking the Rule, I was hyper ... some of them can be a bit pedantic. This is because I am a formalist. I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  throughout the course of the day so come check in on me and see how I'm doing. ... to answer in three hours. Goodie! I've decided to catalogue my studying ... indeterminate structures and projection! I really don't like this stuff, I can

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  like this: I took a week long course on how to be a leader in engineering ... week, but I think what I learned can be best illustrated by what I saw ... in the Media Lab (by attempted, I mean I got there and couldn’t find it

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013