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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  in me being asked to take a year off. If I came back, I had no idea how I was going to graduate in any reasonable time, and in which degree ... journalism, how newsrooms function, and the science news coverage in daily

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... 's the bottom line. Works for me. In other news, since I last posted, I ... ? Finally, have I mentioned lately how much I love xkcd? If you're still

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to check on him. There would be some bubbles. I would add flour and water ... didn't rise quite as much as I would have wanted). It was delicious! But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  , nothing becomes clearer. That is how I feel reading “Patrick Winston died ... [/caption]   Everyone who knows me knows how much I loved and admired ... community - In both 6.034 and 6.803, he would either start the class with an

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... couple days, leaving me to overthink in bed. It happened as soon as I moved ... I'm not sick and just go about my normal things because I would rather

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  knot again my spread for Infinite Magazine Issue 9

  

  "]spreads[/annotation] were really cool, and I highly recommend looking through them, but in ... chaos! I couldn't wait to see what everyone would do with this prompt ... 'knot again' in the very last week"]knotted strips.[/annotation] We would

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  their life, i would suggest that they do X less often”. in other words ... ’m currently thinking through - when I write (or do any other public work), how ... people around you, often in significant and long-lasting ways how do

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do not know how much longer I have. Tell my family I love them. But really

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures

  

  'm slightly afraid of the person i would become if i lived in LA. portland is ... and a curse. i was spending most weeknights by myself in a tired haze ... -somethings than something-teens. i regretted not living in seattle instead of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  words what the show was about, what I thought during the show, and how I ... beautiful piece captured everything I pictured in a blog about the Vagina Monologues, but couldn't express in words.  I never thought I’d be performing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... processes are, so I thought it would be good to engage the system I was ... tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... to Algorithms. Still, I never thought that I would want to do a startup ... decisions. I participated in several hackathons at MIT. It really started off

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... , but in Italy? That would NEVER happen." I came to Japan to immerse

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... question was about how outreach is valued in the professional scientific ... loudly in my ears that I'm not sure if I heard anything he said, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in ... Engineering, which I wanted as my major. It was amazing seeing how much the ... through so far. I began to wonder what kinds of questions they would ask

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... was my mother–who, every weekend, would go over what I did in the prep ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  reasoning that may have carried you through in the past. I would spend hours ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... ’t know if he realized how badly this would hit me. Maybe I didn’t realize ... loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018