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• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... has been on a campaign this winter to get me to learn how to ski, even ... very good". Certainly you don't have to be an IMO medalist to get in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  dependent on how good I was at it, not in general and not in comparison to ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... ’d essentially been in the same room from 8am to 8pm for setup, rehearsal ... have no idea what to do with my interest in music now that i’m no longer

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... heavily on each word, so bare with me as I'm trying to get back into the ... experiences. When I applied to be a blogger, I partially wrote about how I enjoy

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  've taken. We learned how to create image-editing effects in C++ that would normally take much longer to replicate manually in Photoshop. [caption id ... understand the documentation and how to make sense of Drake in general, but we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... colleague in London who studied the Y chromosomes of ancient Britains to infer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... kinds of things appeal to them, and how do they interact with their fellow ... year." 11.5 hours a year saved? But what happens when you get to the end

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  students in GEL program, and I love the opportunity to meet students from a ... startlingly similar to an ELL. “You need to talk to people, you need to get ... fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I ... ’ve gone to office hours in my best pair of pajamas. I’ve turned 30 minute ... , day to day, I find myself in a constant cycle of never-ending work. But

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  you get to campus. I did not follow this advice when I was a freshman ... , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... myself how to use Photoshop for scientific applications today. Check out

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  came in to walk us through CNC machining, and another guest lecturer showed us CAD modeling. I came in to this class expecting to have a good ... base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  the past month (in another). I scramble to get out my phone and write it ... The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... luckiest sophomore in the world when my piece of paper is pulled and I get

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  Pinkett: The Tech: Once you leave MIT and get out into the real world, to ... learned when I was at MIT was the way that MIT taught me how to learn. We ... the potential to become obsolete. The material I learned in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  problem was just absolutely hilarious to me at that point in time. Luckily ... sounds weird. Trust me, I remember coming to campus for CPW and taking ... and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... desire to leave. You wake up with them and the thought of getting out of ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this ... unfinished p-set, in my room. Finally, I have time: to do the things I always ... had to take a little detour to the hospital to get an x-ray to confirm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  going to get the highlights (as defined by me) here. If you’d like ... your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  also suggest some good places to get lunch or dinner on campus or in the ... entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  that in order to get the most out of my education, I was going to have to ... where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010