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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... much as it is for academic growth and fun."]my sheltered high school self ... consists of both a run and a coop. The run is the big screen-enclosed outdoor

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ’ll remember how you all always talked about starting a band with them without ... .5 years ago (eep!), I asked my EC about how much support he got when he was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  love so much is that a ghost always haunts the people in the house. In ... stagnate with an old version of myself.   . . .   Painting is a ... wanted me to take care of her horses for a while. How do you go from

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  have a much better sense of humor than Harvard students. While this is no ... prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry ... you discovered, albeit through a flawed experiment, is what everybody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="93299" /] ---🍂🍂🍂--- Living off campus has also created a much needed layer of ... whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me ... new advisor and my new lab is pretty good, I have a lot of freedom to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  every MIT student receives in Orientation, and mine is a little more than ... an entire box of bananas for a buck, and made something like three ... a lot of people are excited to see some art! But where is everyone

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale ... on MIT’s hardness? Is the measurement process simply too complex for a ... scale. Note that this is plotted on a log scale.[/caption] All numbers

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  identity. You can't box your personhood in a handful of words, much less ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... me explain the phrase "deckbuilding roguelike". A roguelike is a kind

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  a pressure sensor to measure how much gas collects over time. It also ... to analyze how much methane is actually in the gas we've collected ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  ”, because not all robots are humanoid. A robot is just an automatic machine. A ... because the modern field of robotics is equally broad. It’s a highly ... . I’ll oversimplify these a bit as a summary: Mechanical engineering is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  completely insane. As a senior, I pretty much had my pick of all the rooms on ... the end of this tunnel of a room which does not allow very much light ... -and-half idea. As you can see, light really is a problem in this room...but now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  pretty sure that I'd love doing the work, no matter how much there was (I ... "peasant" analogy... people would talk about how "elegant" a math proof was ... ...). But when people get here, everyone pretty much leaves a lot of that at

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  how a person is doing. “How are you” is asked quickly and instinctively ... respond with a simple “good.” Nothing more and nothing less. But so much ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  Manufacturing I. In this class everybody is issued a box of materials, taught some ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a freebie entry, an entry in which all we have to do is share with you our

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  the best parts about being a member of SaveTFP is just seeing the number ... was at 9:00 p.m. on a Wednesday. We went for it. I have pretty much the ... intimidating chocolate cake, a box of truffles, and a bowl of berries and whipped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  feel like I learned a lot about how to live this summer. I am so much ... —but to me, art is still the escape. Of course, writing in particular is a ... of a good, classic Chinese poem is this truly incredible, magical

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  room is a triple. It’s on the 3rd floor. ~~~coincidence?~~~ Yeah ... ) CPW is this week, so if you’re a prefrosh you’re likely going to be ... ) Dining. There is a constant stream of food from the Howard Dining Hall

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  when I got here. How much of that is MIT related and how much of that is ... , everything was completely new, and there was a lot. At MIT I learned how to ... telling you about my experiences. One of the things that gets me most is how

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  Francisco Bay is really pretty. o____o 2. Asian food is so much better here ... . MUNI is a really cute name for a mass-transit system. 8. I want a car. 9 ... adobe is like natural air-conditioning) is fairly small, though it has a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... life when you do.** All this is of course a lot easier said than done

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015