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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... important to ask, "How much experience do I need to join Rocket Team?" to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  much of a case for why self-knowledge is important, and I’m not sure I ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... surprised, simply because it's not how I operate. I'll confess that I spend a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very ... always seem to happen when one person or another is in a Zoom call, by the ... trash is overflowing and you can't get a good grasp on it and all your

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is ... . The program is called “getfit@mit” and it is a 12-week, team ... of your own. It’ll give you a much deserved break from integrals.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  instead of Chris Kaiser. Darn. This is him explaining how three ... . Evidence: 1. Kaiser rolls. So much better than normal rolls. 2. Kaiser Chiefs. Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  -Conner pretty much has a different personality on every floor. Baker is almost ... past week - there is sooo much going on right now: tests, problem sets ... Speeches, etc) - but also feel free to stray a little bit. The point is to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that ... ).  Be warned, though: it is quite pricey (starting at ~$1700 with a ... aren't that much cheaper. Is paying the Apple premium worth it?  It

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  much for me. This is how I felt when I dropped 6.009. I tried it, I saw ... want to take a semester off and just recollect myself and learn how to ... them. They ask me about classes and how hard it is and what MIT is like

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  feels like it's been so much longer! it's been a busy but not overwhelming two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... than a year. this is my class schedule: i'm taking two econ classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  Christmas music around the house, and look up at a much clearer sky during ... ’s just a week or two longer. It’s probably partly because there’s so much ... I’ve been reminded of how much I love home. But at least I’m headed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  , "how is the english department at MIT? Does it suffer at all in a big ... . So my question is, if a student from Intel and a student like me who is ... that true? Or it is a rumor? I really hope that these questions haven

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  everything that is usually in shadow; I once saw an old man holding a bouquet ... there is so much to be explored. Can we truly model that moth flitting in ... two years here. It’s honed me into a cold, sharp blade, but is this what

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  hard, and crafting a personal identity that you love is supposed to be hard. or maybe “supposed to be hard” is a poor phrase to use, but what i ... confused by how absurdly different life is for different people i probably

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  regret how I spent my undergrad, but rather that it is a modality of living ... , in a sense, they're both oversold—the truth, I think, is unsatisfying ... seeking, a question to which there is no right answer except the one which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  "][/video] I, Giorgano Giorganna, have a reed that I know is right and just! ... Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I ... how realistic this is, but I really want to start emphasizing healthy ... year Perhaps $5,000 is a bit ambitious. I've never been good with money

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  blogging momentum is really hard to start up again after a certain point. I ... at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is a massive particle ... these exotic particles is a bit like staring at a Jackson Pollock painting

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... phrases?" and the inevitable answer is "yes"--because how else are you going ... we using something around here?" "Is it a can of paint?" "Is it a can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how ... that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here ... – that’s how I function. Using a stool to press down on a drying foam

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010