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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  fine. It gives the same energy as 18.01. There will always be a weekly ... deeply, and I don't think that is a rare sentiment. In fact, I'm starting ... , others I published elsewhere, and the rest I kept to myself, on napkins and

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  before my GRA hauls me to the hospital. All I remember from that is a ... , because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of ... carry a box up the stairs. Doing things with a purpose is good, and useful

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  out at the sea of faces and realized what a magical job it is to be the ... ownership in the design of a ring that is part of a longstanding tradition and ... and the rails and basically anything that is a line, you could probably

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  NH is a real place. In the area we were, there were very little light ... , that there is no one being let down. The little chess pieces on the board ... is to fail. To have the roughest and grittiest of failures and watch my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... set of events and facts that had occurred in the past, but as a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  MIT, this is a problem I wrestled for a while.  And I've learned that it's really not that hard.  As the saying goes, "there's no such thing as bad ... .  The good news is that you probably already own plenty of baselayers and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  add in hot and humid rain, well, that’s like putting a kangaroo in the ... rain! OH, is that actually water falling out of the sky?! And it falls sideways?! And why is the water warm??? I managed to take this Snap while

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  be agonizing psets, and there will be heartrending exams. At the same ... I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the ... places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  that were meant to be broken. The universe is just teaching the same ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... , neither is it the most "valid" path. Perfectionism wants you to believe that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  great place to learn, see, and do. That is a fact that does not change ... . I'm not going to lie and say it's a cakewalk. MIT is challenging ... least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  punchline is that to call myself gratuitously lucky would be understating the ... probably went to bed at 3 AM the night before and can't believe that I just ... , a free car, and the right to name a state park after themselves. Some

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  much looking around, and to my surprise, the place was great. A little ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  ready for, a whole new book awaits. And I can’t wait to turn the page. ... MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes ... of anxiety took over. I spent the days and weeks that followed caught

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  that, yes, the weather is nice but maybe a bit too hot and, yes, I guess ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... find out that he’s re-assigned the project to a male co-worker. He doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  First, I am excited to say that the class of 2009 is slowly ... of a Nobel laureate fangirl) that I sort of ran into the wall and ... Center. And since my postdoc is an MD/PhD and goes to the hospital on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  conducive to that. There’s no single cafeteria where everyone eats lunch, and ... course, 99% of the reason for this is that MY FRIENDS ARE AWESOME AND I ... confirm that Person A is free on Saturday at 12:00. In the meantime, though

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogger Freebie #2 And a plot twist!

  

  that was how it should be, and I wasn't sure how to make a decision to ... , that was the last test; all in all, it went fairly well, and is certainly ... "failing" category; the average is almost twice my score, and I am close to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  look at that and conclude that I rarely have the space to express the ... one of their albums “Djent is Not a Genre.” Committed to the bit, one ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  a gunshot, it's tempting to sneak a glance across the range and see ... Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into ... instructor) tells his classes that shooting is 90% mental and 10% technical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim ... goggles and saw the world in a new, more nostalgic way. I realized that this ... continue for the foreseeable future.  The idea of the test is that if you

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023