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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  parties made possible by Jay Sean. I’ve learned a couple things. Like how ... of grief and I-wish-I-had-Hermione’s-time-turner yearning. And how old ... More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  overloaded sophomore fall, I had told myself that I would never subject myself ... conditions. It was "worse than anything I had seen in a long time." I promised myself, going into junior fall, that I would have to make things better

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  things that can and will change at MIT. In fact, that’s what I love about ... something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... her. Then she said, “Oh you’re doing fine! I would not recommend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  haven't used this as much as I thought we would, I think partially because ... , I just think it's pretty cool how I get to live with a whole bunch of ... stuff, and that is why I am Miske. (I am definitively the maximalist in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  Part I August 2020: I read a stray comment in the blogger slack that sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... ="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... way from back in November!) and I definitely wrote some other entries in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  needs help walking now. They raised me since I was born and stayed in the US with us until I was 14. The last time I visited them was in the 9th ... ’t even remember how they’re related to us anymore. I’m just going to refer

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... of the differences between us, in how I see the world and how she sees ... ’t have enough to do in my life already and that this challenge would be a

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the ... that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  constraints, we designed a fuel cell that would fit in a cell phone and seemed like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... cell are carbon dioxide and water. In fact, it would actually be less

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going ... had to comment on Schrock, even though I was already scooped in ... ), or, in our case, a living group (Conner 2!). Now, I've played three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  There are times when I feel incredibly lucky to exist in close ... grand opening and some debugging, I asked them some questions about how ... fundraisers, a development that I am personally pretty excited about. In the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... for the show. “Hey, that would be great,” I said. I like the Peas, and besides, I hadn’t been to a good concert since the Rolling Stones were in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  water war weapons. I have sporks on my shirts. I chip in to buy our ... solution. I spent all of my time at a particular fraternity in hopes of ... things would happen: 1) I would get a bid as well 2) I'd sit there, he

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly ... trying and failing to make change in their own lives, and I doubted an

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... material interesting. I was, in fact, much more interested in my friends’ shouting about [annotation note="Mechanics and Materials I in the mechanical

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  would assist us in getting to know you. Obviously, the greater the ... while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common ... awhile, we would expect to see the results of your standardized tests
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  likes we get or how many people we Snapchat. Like I said in an earlier ... lately about making friends. People asked me how to make friends in college ... close. When I started trying to think about how I really became friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016