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• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational ... showed me how angular velocity could be split into vectors one way, but I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  shouldn't do that. Even though that's how my life has been lately, I lucked ... , would naturally be among the most creative people here at MIT. But I doubt ... -as-a-bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... ,” and I suspect that I will share some of them in due time.  However, as I ... ’s chances of thriving.  There are settings in which I did really excellent

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  challenged myself in more ways than i would have expected to and i have changed in more ways than i would have expected to. i grew up with this ... strange things that i have collected in the last couple of years. now that i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the ... in inquiring about financial aid. I have contacted my usual financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i ... 'd been debating about buying an iPod Shuffle for a while just so I'd have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  organized with academic work, but I still can't gauge how much time everything ... blogger would be kind of overkill? I really love the whole concept of the ... , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  Tube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online, so I thought I would embed them below for ... (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  half done, so I'll answer my backlog of questions in several parts. Here ... many applicants, how many will be accepted, etc." I still haven't seen ... Students?" This is a question I answered in this post. The answer was: "We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... exception. I have professors who I would take a bullet for, they are so good ... Punjabi dialogues that I just couldn't figure out (I am not really fluent in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  another plan for this blog post: I was going to build a loft in the first ... .[/annotation]My parents and I were in SoCal last March Break (to visit my four-year-old twin ... whole time just f r e a k i n g  o u t about how cool it was and then

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  in my room. I feel a lot better compared to the first few days of ... in the deep pool! But alas. Covid struck before I got to take one final ... of how fragile they are. And I usually think caterpillars are kind of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  Remember two weeks ago when I blogged about how excited I was for this semester? Well, in a dramatic turn of events, I suddenly became ... all started last Friday when I woke up with a sharp pain in my butt

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UEA Internship Panel

  

  internship panel for anyone interested in a career or degree in economics. (I've pasted some excerpts from the UEA email in italics.) The complimentary ... inquires, "How's your wife/husband?" The other responds, "Relative to what

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  angst, was ultimately the realization that time was passing. I would never ... on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... makes me feel Old. I can only imagine how it makes y'all feel. I've just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  important role in how i experience attraction. i remember a few years ago one ... repeatedly and the shocking would only stop if they jumped over a hoop. in such ... occurs all the time in humans as well. i’ve written about this idea before

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on ... a big poetry person, but I liked his stuff. I have no idea how well it ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  ." I could get all linguisticy about how meaning is not conveyed just ... day on campus, when I[annotation note="listen, it's my floor, I know how ... of myself as "being in Boston" when I'm at MIT; now, I'm just "being

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... ; consider though that for the first, I was only in elementary school, and for ... new kind of shock. I spent my morning and afternoon in lab at MIT

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  many pertinent questions were asked in the last entry, I figured I'd base ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music ... morning, I went with some friends for dim sum at China Pearl in Chinatown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005