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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into non-technical fields, too. I know how to write a specification for a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  in the X, Y, or Z direction to make it. You have to make NEW planes ... in learning how to CAD simple objects. No more 30 minutes of screaming ... stuff, and voila you get to see how aerodynamic the original object was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... , MAS.A17 (Designing Technologies for Kids). Basically I get to play with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  a lot of cooking experience. In an effort to both improve our cooking ... First day of IAP![annotation note="and in an effort to reduce the amount of jetlag we were all feeling from flying back to campus"]In the spirit

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  he was sometimes struggling to get some medieval poem in arcane english ... and is going to their open house to see how it will measure up to MIT in ... pretty sure that you're going to MIT?", "What are you going to major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... get him to care for me? I deleted some paragraphs in case someone came ... don’t want to hear about him. I am in so much pain. How much pain is

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  clubs were serving food at their first meetings in order to lure in new ... be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... habits, and also to show frosh and prospective future frosh how free food

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  to get there in one step. I felt so far behind and I was mad at myself ... that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... me when I was walking to class or sorting books in the library. Then I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... class gets you to really absorb is how differently real-life situations ... implementation. You choose how to write the code that does what we need the robot

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  to MIT. Not in a trapped way. I just thought I'd want to get as far ... ways it forced me to grow up, and how to pick a healthier path in the ... from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... useful skill is figuring out how to interest other people in solving your ... . The reason I want to emphasize this is because of how incredibly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  room to get a drink and trip over freshmen psetting together in my ... seems to taking in far more frequent, two-length cycles. In the last two ... plasmid formation to the accessory optic system to gender roles in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  new admits in the ATL Be sure to check the listing on your My ... ’re excited to meet other new MIT admits so we want to let you know about some ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  world, who they want to become, and how to get from the former to the ... applications to read in the summer, we must not have much to do. It's probably ... few days back in Boston, I flew to San Francisco to present about maker

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... moment he gets to his destination. He makes a turn to the left, his back ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers ... to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas expanding to fill its container. I am enrolled in 45 units, which is 3

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... should try to move in some direction. I wish I were more convincing, or ... present in the world. That's really all there is to it. romance

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015