Search

Search Results

• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  . Being a hopeful Course 10Eng-Biomedical and without fluency in any other ... 11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an ... up starving and freezing in a surprisingly cold South African winter

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several ... for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  real-time how we measure up to others. This is a bad idea, regardless of ... Technically, there isn't much to shooting a pistol. Load rounds into magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  was to learn how to work out in a gym without breaking any fancy ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... the class, I had barely stepped foot in a proper gym. To me, the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  where we tell you how much we love you, followed by some of the best a ... in the appropriate bubble? There is no deposit required?" No deposit ... thinking about a career in medicine? This would be a good one to attend. 12

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  programs you are interested in, and try to see how well MIT is a fit for you ... in a not-so-random fashion. How much time should I spend with my host ... This App is MAGIC!  I used it so much during CPW and rush, and it is how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... drive anytime soon.) Fiber arts became a frequent topic in my ... association innovation committee! they do a lot of cool projects around campus

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... Real Job. This is a drastic social shift from my time in undergrad, where ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  too much effort. The solution, inevitably, is eggs. I'm a [annotation ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  tell   us about how something in your life is like that scene. There’s a ... at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you ... 'm writing as I complain about how bad this movie is :P[/caption] Tell us a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  ✅ Inviting myself into randos selfies is always a fun thing to do… Take free ... were in January 2021, but I still enjoyed the class a lot. My Japanese is ... dislike bowling unless I get a strike/a spare, not sure how much I would

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  to sound more authentic was definitely a big factor. How much Chinese ... is a life-long process, and I'm confident in my ability to sustain my ... and Kristina display so much enthusiasm for a foreign language, I feel

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about it isn't as much a chore as it is a reconfirmation of your bond with ... .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to any student who lost out in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  with us, and greets me with a jolly "Hello! How are things in Harrisburg ... having a little bit of down time in your typical day. Especially if years ... appropriated by Argentinian dissidents in the 1980's). From there I found a list

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  normal.   In a lot of ways, though, this is all very weird. The last ... a year isolated in one way or another, it feels incredible to just ... April, but in reality, last spring was just a very poor approximation of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... -reg? Simply choose a class in the vast and expansive Harvard course catalog

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  -bordered (cut) and taped together–definitely a lesson in patience and attention to ... opposed to constant summer) was in elementary school, so this is more or ... over quality LOL"]a hundred photos[/annotation] in my camera roll of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  of course, weeks are a Social Construct, and really every day is just ... much. No matter how I procrastinated or fooled around on Friday, I wake ... my friends also in the area, and/or a fun house event. By now, my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  how much material it was, here are our allotted cheat sheets. There’s a ... as Avatar is in our books, it still has a lot of the same qualities ... honestly this whole semester, which is why we haven't been blogging as much

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019