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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  , Mirchi) Above anything else, Mirchi is a family! We spend so much time ... is a super high-energy folk dance that originates from the Indian state Punjab; it’s lit and so is this team! MIT Mirchi — a Bollywood fusion

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  perspective on things. A horrible situation is what happened in New Orleans. How ... understand the situation this is somewhat a result of more people going to ... "Where there is a will....there is a way" for a reason. All the wonderful

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done elsewhere. For me, this is one of the most important blog posts I've ever ... + years ago (12/13/14, actually, which is a cool date) about my MIT decision

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2020 blogger wrapped, wrapped

  

  : [caption id="attachment_59233" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] there is a ... ; Spotify also gave some interesting stats on how much you stan your favorite ... At this point, Blogger Wrapped posts are sort of becoming a tradition

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  setting. There is a great deal that I enjoyed about engaging in one ... worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... as well as what you do is not a one-way street.  In order to really be

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  -D/CI-H and a small, advanced class. It is not an easy class, and Manning is ... recitations (or tutorials, in a class that has them). Pretty much any department ... , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  it, but now that I've seen how impactful it is, I'm hooked. When I ... maintenance is required for something of such a huge scale, so the ways in which ... how huge the undertaking is—given how limited the materials Minecraft

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  Friday? This is weeked was a great example of how you can accomplish so ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  !) So what is a poetry slam, anyway? It's a 25 year old movement of spoken ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  pass is a pass! The Thanksgiving trip was only a week away at this point ... test as a sign that I needed much more practice, so I signed up for a few ... in Boston is MIT. The roads here are so much more chaotic, and there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  to learn CAM. Manufacturing a yo-yo is fairly complicated. We ... . I thought about how much CAM and CNC had intimidated me once. Now my ... Let’s meet the CNC mill. This one is called HAAS. He’s proven useful

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... mundane; I give a summary of how the day went, jot down any thoughts or

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  't have to explain to all the postdocs what a "blog" is -- but I forgot the ... this figure in Paint. How rude of you to suggest that I did. This is ... approximately a majillion proteins in spines, and each person in my lab is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  left (or somewhere nearby) is a map of the MBTA subway system. You ... each station memorized (I don’t), there is a helpful map at the top of ... that train.   As in the bus, inside the train is a scrolling neon sign

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  places around and at mit godless and holy

  

  this post is just a filler post so i meet my self-set goal of a blog ... yes. if my blogpost were a series, this is a filler episode. One of the ... Boston is supposed to be a place of good seafood. Do not go here for good

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I exaggerate myself too much on the blogs? Is this my real self or is it someone I think I have to be? That is how the world works I hope you learned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  Educational Counselor, a recent graduate who is currently enjoying sunny ... admissions committee. A college interview is an experience. Remember that the ... from a transcript or very basic info -- and the interviewer is human too

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  appreciate how much effort goes into even a seemingly simple thing like ... (Creating Digital Learning Materials for Biology) This course is a student ... and how to shape our own projects. After a couple weeks of research, we

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  much a lot of the stuff written in the MIT forum (and elsewhere, for that ... ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... ? *This statement is not true if your summer assignment is to a living group

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006