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• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  each other. How we did this without words is beyond me, but I will always ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you ... (many) are from dorm mailing lists – the topics in those can range from ... I'll actually read, I still get kind of nervous when I can't check it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in ... ??!?!?" Yes! Frosh can live in cook for yourself dorms right away, you aren

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  “@Andi you know how with ultra hand you can rotate objects in 45 ... . Coincidentally, [annotation note="I bet she can rotate cubes omnidirectionally in ... Maria,” I messaged her, “you know how with ultra hand you can…” A few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  and there. And I. Am. In. Love. I've always had a fascination with ... bunch of dice to make decisions in their made up world. As a kid, I ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike occasionally but the last full mountain I climbed was in 4th grade, when it was ... ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  dinners and parties. In French House, I've learned how to feel responsible ... let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... . Class of 2014. Hometown: it's complicated. I was born in Singapore, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  cappella and guitar. I listen to different music depending on how I feel a ... of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was ... with a stranger in any physical location at this point in time, i decided ... reluctant to initiate the last one since i was SO comfortably slumped in my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ?*supplementary material*5)can i send in my poems,stories and ...outlines for novels?...how?where?in ... [Independent Projects] I have been doing during these gap years. Can I send in ... , can i update the admission committee about the results in feb?" We may

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

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  I believed in my abilities so much that I genuinely go around telling ... everyone takes anyway, so I'm here to explain how your first midterm seasons ... life"]26-100[/annotation], but I was in[annotation note = "A separate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  chess for a bit (you can check out his chess website here) and so I ... , so you can gift Nectar to Gods or your friends in the Underworld. I ... to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... ; these days, you can probably build that in just a few hours because the ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  than 50k in the United States last year. One thing I like about Bebras ... ! New this year: there are free apps (iPhone, Android) that students can ... computational thinking. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, it has now spread to more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  hallmates Brian '08, Ilan '08, and Matt '08. This year, I'm a TA. I'm in the ... that many friends already do and that I've been interested in doing for a ... Jitsu stresses...well, I'll let the website do that, since it does a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  type of place. I feel most at ease in a big city where I can get lost in ... my own leisure. I love public transport and seeing how its designed in ... . Turns out, yes, Italy is in fact [annotation note='no, I can’t explain

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  about deferring for a year, and here I am giving you information on how ... I have more to ask of you? Well, you can do one (or more) of the following: *Check out the OME website here *Email the OME! I am not sure of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  the highly specific title in this post's tagline, they can be applied to ... in your life when something happened but you can’t quite recall all of ... aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  , not really, I was just kidding." "No, seriously, you can bounce, get in ... Back during my senior year of high school in 2007, I went to CPW ... , and on Saturday evening I went out with James '11 and Sara '12 to buy

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summary of the Semester I'm a senior and it's super weird.

  

  really great semester class-wise. I hope I can get three of these classes ... castle I plan on expanding. I want to buy her a crown. Making Time for ... I'm a senior! And it's November of my senior year at MIT! Crazyyyyy

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 9, 2015