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• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... get my Course 9 - Brain and Cognitive Sciences minor. It’s Week 5, and ... exciting class of the week (or even the past 3.5 years?). It’s one of those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  Literature in Boston (thank goodness there’s an acronym for that: DHLB FPOP. Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of ... was a giant room full of plastic balls in Simmons. (Wait, that’s not

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  I’m frequently proven otherwise. There’s something about learning a ... speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... sentence using words from a vocabulary list; that I can do. It’s quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  two classes, 18.S097 Introduction to Mathematical Proofs and 20 ... of an educational video on fractals. I see fractals everywhere now. It’s ... to fun locations, like Chinatown or the North End (“Boston’s Little

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  by the time the alarm declares that it’s 9AM on a chilly Friday morning ... -season conditioning and practice in the bubble, MIT’s very own indoor tennis court ... seems like there’s a student performance every week, from a cappella

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... whole “constant vigilance” mode (a la Mad-Eye Moody) because Central’s ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  . Welcome – MIT’s an amazing place (no matter what you’re here to study), and ... that’s accepted by both your friends and your folks (no matter how ... you do? Let’s just pretend that after you graduate, instead of just

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  ; I’m interested. Anyway, here’s the contents. If you’re not interested ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... overview in my last post. It’s an event that happens the weekend before

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  What day is it?? It’s March 27th. Which means two things. Happy Birthday Dad! And also Happy Muslim Women’s Day! I’ve been toying with the ... Student Association? Do I talk about the prayer space that’s a short walk

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  everyone’s mind and today being National Nanotechnology Day, I wanted to take ... Suddenly she is in a magical, technicolour world Last week, MIT’s Professor ... happy for him :)[/caption] In my opinion, this year’s prize was one of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  because that’s when my laundry is supposed to be done and just continuously ... thing with me and math is that it’s not necessarily as if i’m bad at math ... words but obviously that isn’t possible so let’s just say if i type at

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  been doing this since our freshman year. It’s a smart idea; the goal is ... precious, time is scarce. There’s a constant ticking in the back of my head ... normal, because I knew everything I did would be recorded. There’s a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  transition and my reasoning behind it, but it’s a little long and a little ... . Enjoy <3) So, the MIT school year just ended, and it’s probably coming ... ’ll meet anyone in the next three months). It’s not like “omg I need a lady

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  environmental engineering"]Course 1.[/annotation] So, here’s what I’ve been up to ... , it’s not a perfect or accurate representation of much of our real world ... a single, 18 unit class, so there’s a fair amount of overlap between

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... another PE class ever again as long as I remain on the fencing team. It’s ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  times, it’s an exam I’m nervous about. In past years, the class average ... . It’s mostly nerves. Just the brain talking too much, overthinking ... better already. It’s largely the lyrics, but it’s also the vehicle of the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Like, for real, it’s not about that at all. A positive decision ... —you do. MIT’s nuclear reactor will not give you special powers ... it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It’s

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  from America?” Yes it is. It’s dryer and hotter, hot enough that we ... in Nigeria, virtually everyone has the same dark skin. Sure, there’s a ... , “You’re black! Where’s your Kendrick Lamar? Your J. Cole?” The word

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  year is for the concert Saturday evening, when MIT’s a cappella groups ... , MIT’s nerdiest a cappella group (which is really saying something), for ... be gone! That’s a class a day, roughly. Maybe zero some days and two on

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014