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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  Ow ManY fInGeRs aM i HoLdiNg uP,” I will be able to see perfectly out of ... would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo ... would never [annotation note="GUESS WHO IS IN 5 CLASSES AS WE SPEAK. some

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  slots. They really go to everyone who's involved - the people in the ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  throwing. Each participant has a time slot of 1 minute to perform in front ... about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is ... background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  In 2012 everything about life at MIT felt important: [annotation note ... famous HM case, which is what spurred my interest in neuroscience in the ... left or right in response to different noises and then dissected their

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  real-feel temperature with wind chill factored in at the time was -22 ... claimed just 30 minutes in -22 degree weather would be sufficient for ... . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  build by cutting out cross-sections in paper with slits and slotting them ... math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  believes in my ability to improve, despite my chronic inability to focus on ... bathroom, a plate of chickpeas, the parking lot of an In-N-Out. If Marla were ... . While in Yerevan, Armenia for my [annotation note="A program that sends

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from ... too much work to do, or hilarious mistakes in my problem sets, or what ... rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  1pm-4pm i usually have class in this slot after 4pm i do my ... 't even quite understand what right means in this case. I spent the first month of this year in Europe, studying abroad in Madrid before going on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  served as Treasurer in my sophomore year and didn't enjoy it since, well ... 't want to be the Show Coordinator. and since the president slots were ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  Back in January 2021, my boyfriend Raymond realized he was bored ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work ... were pretty hard to come by in Boston so Raymond ended up buying one off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  walking from the west side of campus, so with me living in the east side, we ... you mean?" "Well," he said, "in college, I always thought of hours and ... all my demographic information over the phone. The first open slot was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  mine who are in ROTC, the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Tessa and Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... inspection on the left photo. In the right photo, Rachel is on the left and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  slots in nicely on top of the 48 units you might already have queued, but ... First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years ... , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  ! I am currently majoring in [annotation note="Computation & ... ; cognitive science. (I love telling people that 'i major in 6-9' for shits and giggles )"]6-9[/annotation] and minoring in [annotation note

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... at blogger meetings and occasionally wave hi in the corridors ... , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... talks. This terrified my roommates and me because we thought we were in trouble, when in reality, they were just making sure my dumb self hadn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  energy in trying every activity I could slot into my calendar. Keeping busy ... manageable, because I had seen much of the material in high school. One of my biggest failures, though, was in making friends - and now, looking back on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  invariants, number theory and unruly combinatorics problems. In eleventh grade ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013