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• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  dance with when i was in high school, so having a dance community is ... Bombergiving is a potluck event and yearly tradition of [annotation note= "we ... lovely. it reminded me how much i love the people on my floor and how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  acceleration in terms of 𝛉 and r, which is a lot simpler than x and y if an object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational ... . Honestly, though, there could be a class in of itself about how ancient

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a ... lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in ... 've mellowed out, in a sense -- the furious emotional ups and downs of my late ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... exactly how you're going to celebrate. Lunch or dinner with friends is a ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... , more than a billion miles across. Emily Levesque, a junior in physics ... caught the attention of many reporters and resulted in stories in a variety

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  with shop tools, a refresher never hurts. Next semester is 2.007, the ... competition to see whose engine ran the fastest. This year there is a new ... in one direction, so the mechanics behind walking involve a solenoid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network rather than in a central server. And it's so much more than that, but we ... next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  weird. I liked it a lot because it stood out in its rejection of the ... pretty much tied in terms of campus culture and workload. I want to major in economics on a pre-med track, and the schools' econ departments are

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , the probability of its extinction in present circumstances is low. A ... a larger scale, proposed in a 2011 study published in Nature, is to ... Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  affect over the student body. Taught in a peculiar fashion, TEAL is the ... weak background in Chemistry, everyday is something new. Covering a wide ... peer review is a class wide one. Three students in the class hand in

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  interview in Japanese conducted by my professor, where a partner and I were ... dimples in the Charles let me know that it was still raining. I ate a ... picked it up and read a bit before my next class. Babel is a fantasy novel

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  of them: Chameleon Chameleon is a body art studio located in Harvard ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at ... of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  making it an ongoing series—but then I remembered how much cool stuff ... , randomly, after turning in an 18.01A pset about a week ago. Certainly, the ... Building 6C (a Course 3—Materials Science and Engineering—building) is giant

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  . The women’s bathroom in Simmons shone with a clean metallic glow. I ... ’t looking? For a blissful moment, I breathed in peace. Then I reached my ... awesome): To note among roaches is Nadezhda (translated as “Hope”), a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  in their bodies is excited about new ways of being creative wants a ... I'm taking a choreography class this semester! I heard about it in my ... appreciate a lot. the instructor is a choreographer, dance filmmaker, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  much of my life was shaped by my interest in anime, it's a shame that ... Abyss, for example, is a show that will subsume you in a fantastical world ... is portrayed in the form of a bird. It's heart-rending and will

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... automatically score them? How can we organize and visualize data in a way that ... is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... . in a previous post i wrote about how an mit.nano class made me feel ... selling out to a lucrative industry position. what is often ignored in these

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is ... will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024