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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  put in my wallet, but conveniently seems to show up when I need it: “I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to ... I’m less organized and there’s less stuff in here... From left to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... awarded to an MIT professor just a few days after I learned how quantum dots ... ! OLED Displays How can plastic become conductive? In materials science

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  tendency to wax nostalgic when I get lost in my own thoughts, and going from ... could get to black without my parents becoming upset with me, and an ... too scared to sleep in alone in the Dominican Republic. They were mine

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real ... , with a delay really only to get the plane de-iced (nice work Jet

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  sets in advance, so we traded between ourselves and tried to catch a ... , making it all the way to the highest point in the rainforest and back in ... forest. in the late afternoon, we headed to a nearby beach, which was one

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  Florida anymore! I went out today in part to get the photos of the places ... picture, and I managed to run over a chicken wing and almost wipe out in ... for two reasons; 1. I can sit in the grass and work and 2. I can get

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What I’m Up To distractions

  

  TikTok - I'm so sorry. Spotify - to get my good music in! Lots of ... really appreciate how so many from the community talked to me and reached ... draw and the rest of the people must guess what it is; fastest to get it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  get to critique scientific papers right in front of the authors! Every ... : the best experts in the world in their respective fields come to our ... and up-to-date yet intro-level overviews of topics in the field of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  of cool optical illusions. I get to remember how to do convolutions, a ... 'll see how that turns out. The application part ought to make it easier to ... Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you ... Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  asked my lab supervisors to talk with me in German, I'm getting an ... , was enough to get me a great plate of gnocchi in gorgonzola sauce at the ... such that the first thing you learn in any language class is how to order

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  does she get to stay in?" or "She hit it too hard" even though it was ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a ... arise if we only search in the four cardinal directions as opposed to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  about them and how they worked. Senior year, I was In Charge: the clubs ... lyfe) and about how to mentor younger people and run large groups. I had ... 't know how to do a traditional task, or when my predecessor was officially

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  get a B- in 8.01. I have no clue how that happened; I am guessing that ... to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  want a small fridge in your room. Hold off on getting this until you find ... assignment. Dorm lighting tends to disappoint. Invest in a desk light or even ... outlets in each room, but they don't always tend to be in the most

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  students at MIT here.  Instead, I wanted to highlight just how quickly ... .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular ... about selling string bracelets to raise money? I did this with a group in

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  also the year that Marty McFly time-traveled to from 1985 in Back to the ... getting really bored. Besides, I wanted a faster way to get around campus. I ran through several options and settled on learning how to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  decision in life comes a tradeoff: you get to go to MIT in exchange for, well ... how much I fucked up in the first half of the semester, and one month of ... touched by the world and everything in it. It's absolutely shocking to be

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016