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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  perfect in this case. After a few weeks you figure out how much food you ... Adelaide!) A caution cape is also exactly what it sounds like: At the party ... runner (=50+miles a week) so food is very important to me." Well Dave, you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but ... gingerly begin packing my last box. Some pictures. A couple of 3D

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made ... no substitute for sleep. Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Thursday morning (Penn State gets a much longer Thanksgiving break than us). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely ... . Four years ago when I was a senior in high school I tried to learn how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  a solid "yes" or "no," rurality is much more nuanced than that ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... place(s) in which you’ve grown up—reading up on how a place has developed

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  out is an incredibly stressful process. We are still figuring out how ... stuff that the little stuff is just that much harder to take ... otherwise do not have a home that is safe to go to). And MIT has offered

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... zonotope is a word, but wants to correct zonotopal to Zootopia

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at ... the Data. the Data is a CSV, which stands for Comma Separated Values ... picked up a brown paper bag with a grilled chicken sandwich, and sat down

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  disposition's a little too chill for that now. We'll see how aforementioned ... thought that counts, and the fish is delish. -A glass bottle and a bundle ... the end of the day. I don't know how one can can feel so long when a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  dealing with loss it ain't easy

  

  , rendered immobile. putting a pet down is a decision that's awful beyond ... to come even harder, but reminding myself how much pain she was in ... photo album and my mom ordered a small wooden box to put her ashes in. the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  able to skip this section. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to a free response box from the Part 2. This is the best ... corresponding box. For example: Biology A+ AP Calculus A- English A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  classes. How to use a bandsaw A bandsaw is this machine with a thin metal ... Writing blog posts is hard, but writing lists is easy. So here’s a ... Lodge, a training program for first-years on how to use various tools. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  , which is a major focus of Course 10. Also, Course 10 has a lot of ... interests. # I interned with the Rapid Response Group this fall, which is a ... other option.  My cousin is studying to be a lawyer. There are other ways

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  , but instead - you guessed it - I’m going to blog. This is also a ... , face down, in a box, or through my pocket, my phone would automatically ... . PREFROSH: Campus is pumped for CPW, possibly as much as you hopefully are

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  culture is quite important at MIT: you can choose how much you do or don ... got ready for bed, a million gazillion introductions, too much free food ... "]freshman[/annotation] to be Box Boy, who runs around in a box trying to bring people to the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how ... Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  beautifully how to analyze everything, but says that analysis is only a tool ... ." Professor Blanco is looking for some students to build a full ... that is presented by a member of the industry. Each class has yielded a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006