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• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  razorblades in my throat (that's how it felt, anyway), constantly having to blow ... it gets any "worse." WORSE?! So I guess I'm not used to being in this ... get in. (Or maybe it's really just to contain the diseases found there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  possible to get this pipe wrench stuck in a piece of Unistrut, but somehow it ... into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  how weird would that be? Instead it died in the much more subtle Bso ... idea of how to approach it. Luckily for me (and for some of you), MIT ... valuable trial run on how to do classes without the finality and stress of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  ’m inexplicably in love with someone I don’t know how to talk to?? What?? 2) Rooney ... thought from the beginning to the end of a chapter, in which three or four ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  chance, which is why I’ve been reaching out to others in the GEL Program ... me they’d like to help with an entry, I decided to go all-out and get some video up in this blog. Joe ‘12, Kevin ‘11, and I met up to talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  held in a reception area. We had the opportunity to put our new knowledge ... appropriate for the situation, like you wouldn't walk up to the CEO of GE and ... appropriate if you're introducing yourself to a veterinarian or fellow dog lover

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  good food, and ask questions about how to become a real person in the ... 'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class ... something cool to work on after graduation. She's between getting a job and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to ... myself to New York Magazine during my breaks. Also, here I get an amazing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... are called so because of how simple these tools make it to mess around ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a ... home to London, and while I stood in line to board the plane some man

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  and I told him that for once in my time at MIT, I want to be good at something, to have my niche. I've been struggling a lot in finding my place ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  to get 100s on the psets and above 80s on the remaining midterms, which ... and I actually dropped it a week after being in it. Real nervous to take ... to go, since I took three years of it in high school, every year in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ? how far could i get? thus, began the journey to the end of the world ... far future; reading how the world was going to change in a thousand ... ’t happen in real life. to fix this, we can connect the grid points using

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in ... drills in its students – the capacity to fail and get back up ready to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  to get a good photo that did not have a kid's face in it. [carousel ... tough though, and that I would struggle to get myself out of my room if I didn't have a concrete plan to do so. With that in mind, I set a goal to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  when i’m unable to write exactly how it feels in my head so [annotation ... applying to be a blogger ! in my application i talked about how i honestly ... than to maybe add in links or pictures, i’m going to try and preserve the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how ... Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... [/caption] How are we going to find an object that we can get to near light speeds ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  look up a youtube tutorial on how to change a spare tire. winter in the ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025