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• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is ... a quiz that should’ve been easy, or even how i’m not drinking enough water or eating healthy at all, and how all of this is documented in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  'll deal with it later and just throw everything in a box". Graduating means ... ;   Senior Year \   There it is.  A brief summary of ... So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  boxes to fit. There is a peculiar flavor of delight that one experiences when an epiphany is had or a clue is satisfactorily answered. Perhaps one ... activity, no one on my team knew how to build a bottle rocket. We relied

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  -making is a skill. Like many skills, there's a body of knowledge, scattered in ... avoid repeating past mistakes. From doing a UROP, I learned how important ... , a value is contentless. No, the value of a value lies in its trade

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  it's amazing how much help and good will is available to you if you ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about witness, about how

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  , although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of ... amazing, and CPW was the first time that I pulled a non-academic, non-Harry-Potter-related all-nighter (whoa that was a lot of hyphens!) Free sodas and coffees

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  Economist so... Ben Bernanke?" Note: Ben Bernanke is not how viral marketing ... is a science. Our professor attributes the success of viral phenomena ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  trying to show off everything under the dome (and believe me, there is a ... choice overload. While there is so much you could do, you have four years to discover it. A good way to maybe think about it is CPW is a taste of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  how every single point was accounted for. Regrade requests: If a ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... largest was 20. Of course, 2.2 points on an exam is worth a lot more to the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... lengths of fragments is also good as a quick and necessary, but not ... electrophoresis is a pretty fundamental technique in molecular bio lab work; other

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  understood how such a rare and fleeting feeling it is. despite that, i think i ... , which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella ... think about it, it startles me how much performing arts there are in mit

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  . How did the mentors decide what classes they will teach? First, a ... selected from all around the world through a variety of networks. Pretty much ... knowledgable about. Inspiring a student is hard, but we thought that the first

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  've fooled into doing math. Here's how it works: At its core the search is a ... is similar to how humans play chess; if we see a move that immedietely ... This is a blogpost from my friend that is a boy, Raymond Tran '23. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  summer is really living within 100 feet of a frozen yogurt shop. And ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... a recipe for my amazing summer, I could only tell you what I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  geometry." This is a great opportunity, I hope many of you will apply! For ... , Philosophy or "Outside the Box." To apply, you must submit the Preliminary Submission Overview Form by March 14. You also must be a US citizen or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  the Oregon Ducks. He is hilarious. He is a ham. He owns me at ... local tavern after long morning of first-world problems. c) Ry is a huge ... encounter pretty much made the kid's life. Here is Uncle Q, Tim, and Ry. d

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice ... this was a good life hack; by befriending people my age (which is easier ... is what has built the life I have. From a poem by Yena Sharma Purmasir

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... , Sarah '08 had a lot of fun climbing them. Getting up was one thing, but ... distinction of having its own dark god, Krotus. He's like a mascot, only cooler

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  and small amphibians, like the ones below. I really like how much ... Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... . However, not everyone at MIT cares that much about Technology. Some people

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  , what you have before you, folks, is a punt puzzle. I don’t know how easy or difficult it is, but I expect that—whether you're a casual reader ... puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014