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• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  ’t think I had a good reason to come as it is that I don’t know how to ... . I’m in a small town in Russia. Why I’m here is a complicated question ... lines to be seen anywhere at all. And in that emptiness, I felt a distance

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... 's the ceiling of Lobby 7. Lobby 7 is a beautiful space, with that vaulted

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  get that dorm security is a thing, but I’m always afraid of forgetting ... had a room facing the Charles River and I miss that this year. In the ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  headstart in that regard. However, no transition is without a few roadblocks ... sure I didn't get consumed in extracurriculars. Doing everything that you ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

   three storeys high. Imagine that: three storeys. And the deadline was in a couple ...  scary. And maybe another reason is that trying new things out, in general, is ... ? What if I make a mistake? I don’t know why I tried doing it anyway. But

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... 've-fallen-into-the-deep-end-of-knowledge classes I've ever taken. And that's in both a good and a bad way. At times ... limited if I'm in a money-saving mood. That all changed when I started to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... . That shift in mentality is honestly what has kept me sane in being a ... -climbing-team. [annotation note='yes i know that it is cheesy but i am a cheesy person

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  to force myself to go do something else, the usual result is that I ... the frenzy, not lessen it. 2) I worry that such a post would either be ... mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging ... I did something today that I had previously sworn I would never do. I joined College Confidential. I finally decided that, no matter how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  July celebrations is that the Boston pops do a special, less crowded ... Cambridge and MIT. The fireworks barge is moored in the middle of the Charles ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  found a metric that determined how acceptably fit I was and stuck with it ... the weaker side, how at the age of 7 I couldn't do a proper pushup or ... progress in the gym is going to slip away. But I am most definitely in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  in an effort to be whole again recovery

  

  hard for me to study in the same areas that I slept and lived. I would ... reminded me of why I needed that environment in the first place. The next ... moment. Then, later that night, I remember feeling the beginnings of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  can honestly say that I do not believe there is not a better position to ... , in a way meet your classmates. Everyone that is accepted early is on ... you change your major, how is cooking for yourself, do we hate Harvard

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... doing a bunch of fancy signal processing using analog electronics. in software-defined radio, that signal processing is done in software instead of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... smiled a lot, which is neither what you do in Denmark nor what you do in a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  once in a while. I've been feeling kind of floaty these past few weeks ... I had a free movie coupon for LSC that I earned by paying full price ... meantime, I'm really super glad that I have a passport, because Ruth '07

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ]E_s[/latex] stored in a spring with a spring constant of [latex]k[/latex] that is ... ]\pi/3[/latex] radians, how many is that? It's a third of a semicircle ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it

  

  the day prior, and Car Bash was a great way to do just that. I beat the ... in that environment, I would have to put on a “mask” to fit into that ... things with everyone; I told Addison about how believing that “Life is

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • November 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  developed all that we learn today. This is eye-opening since I’ve never really ... , which I least expected to have anything to do with the humanities in any ... the mechanical philosophy demands that there is a God. As Garber writes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018