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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  the rear bearing), and voila! A bike for commuting around Cambridge ... about security use a U-lock for their rear wheel and frame, and then use a ... ) and 2 (mechanical engineering) double major so that i could have a M

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a ... nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  , playing with cell culture for my UROP, and building stuff at my fraternity ... happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen-and ... of the Tichu Masters and came away with another answer for our team

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  every hallway was filled with a story, and I found myself taking two hours ... . The other day, I took a walk. For the first time, I saw MIT filled with ... has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid ... a more individualized experience with the professor and recitation

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  back to your dorm with someone and then just end up chatting for a few ... he is as a person (see NPR, TIME, and his own website, for starters ... yore (and a post which everyone should read, especially [annotation note="for

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  vagrant--and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind ... these books have had their residence on my bookshelf for a long time. Some ... list: Biomechanics: Motion, Flow, Stress, and Growth by Y.C. Fung From

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  levels"]WSET Level 3 Certification,[/annotation] with a 9-week course and an exam with theory and tasting components, for which I am still ... culinary perfection a handful of times. My own recipe for “Aged Foie Gras and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... to copy and paste essays with minimal edits for multiple schools, and i ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  , another one for the LEDs, and the smallest ESP32 I could find (an ESP32-S3 ... different 0402 packages onto their pads with a pair of tweezers and a ... assemble a PCB by hand and deal with 0402s at least once. It builds character

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  freshman year. With a large majority of freshman taking it and it being ... and 5.111 has yet to disappoint. As someone who came into MIT with a ... GIR. With 3.091(Solid State Chemistry) and 5.112 (Principles of Chemical

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  for a saguaro.” I looked and saw that she was right. I told her so, and ... spontaneously there instead. An hour and a half later, I limped out with a giant ... chemistry and a spectroscopy lab under my belt, but no shop classes. Lucky for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  -profile vaccines like Gardasil (for HPV) and Zostavax (for shingles) has been both humbling and amazing. I found out that it takes 20 years, on average, for a ... have 95 kids and 50 counselors coming together for CK 2012 (CK = a summer

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there ... completely different person, working with his uncle to start a tea shop and build a simple, happy life in the Earth Kingdom.  The visual and

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads ... MIT, surrounded by students with years of experience at X or Y and internalizing my lack of demonstrated ability as “I’m just not cut-out for X and Y

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  “Well there’s evidence on both sides, like X and Y versus Z and W”. But at ... ended up as a combination refresher course for some topics and really ... journal, and someone I’ve never interacted with will read it, and will think

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  . Mother 3 A charming Nintendo RPG for the GBA, Mother 3 has an interesting ... those rare games I play for both gameplay and story. Vampire Survivors ... screen. It's probably most notable for being both absurdly cheap and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  "]metal stamp[/annotation] and a hammer, and used a drill press (for the first ... advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... seminars you can sign up for. The seminars last one semester, like a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  [/annotation] Joyce Y. ‘24 <3 the contemp style was very cool and i liked the texas ... . they worked very hard for it and it was a really good time :)  [carousel ... decisions, i believe i pulled up for a while and jammed for a bit. very fun, i

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  comfortably in a bus designed for twice as many people as we had) and chatted ... great for Toy Design! 3) Monday is a holiday, I could go then! 4) I need a ... , etc.) and a life sized version of the Monopoly car game piece. After

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008