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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... materials are. You simply let life carry you from one reaction to the next ... creates a product that calls for yet another decision to be made. And that

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  . Its coastal views of the northeast are familiar to me, and its spotty Wi ... along the northeast coast. I’m listening to a playlist I made in 2016 ... to come after. There are songs that I’ve [annotation note="i wanna get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  are all about. Maybe all you need is a 10-15 minute story to get you ... me at MIT that made me realize why I loved this place so much.” Next ... to have her read the first draft of my speech. I liked where the talk

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  there are many reasons for this: i don’t text as much as i used to, i have ... my relationship with death last november i read a blog post where ... you bundle up those feelings and scale them up by ten times. we are

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  dumb little poems and such emotional support procrastination

  

  batteries are short-circuiting my brain If i really forget one more f ... the echoes murmur louder Get up and fight me Are you afraid of your own past? It stands catatonic, unable to die, So wake me up and free me Face

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  opinions; chances are you haven’t thought it through and they will poke holes ... you know about the Palestine Israel situation? There are people who ... in your free time. Or, ignore all of this terrible advice because you

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  bombing and are both in serious condition, at ... feel free to share this link: http://bit.ly/whalleyrecovery. It's been ... Ann Whalley are very much a part of this family. All funds will go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  suite had some Chinese around, And MIT moral code says to free food I ... review sheet is awesome, my psets are read, My exams are all studied, and I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  with parents who are cancer patients have their lives turned upside down ... . Overall, we are required to fund-raise upwards of $20,000 in order to provide Camp Kesem to families free of charge. For more information, please

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  go, these things are pretty big hunks of metal. Second of all, they are ... minutes after that we went and found the free food. (It was delicious

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  -gathering tactic. MIT students have trouble resisting free food. I think that all the students who helped write this deserve a shoutout. Their names are ... , here as well. Note that some of the committee members are freshmen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  systems are found in binary star systems, so they looked for eclipsing ... emphasizes that there are a lot of summer opportunities for undergrads with ... Course 12 (Earth and Planetary Science) and in his free time he hosts a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  microscopes image objects that are at the nanoscale and consequently they are very sensitive and must be mounted on vibration-free platforms. Vivek

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Lodger Third in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring the country of Moldova.

  

  -- made out of broken tea pots, many of which prominently feature the inscription "Made in England." For Mitra, here is the Iran bear. For Ruth ... prelude, here where one burns books, will one in the end burn people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  , but I've been doing that since way before my app ever made it to the ... . Only, he made fun of my tacos and said they weren't very good, which was ... . (Where would mankind be without microwaves?) I hope I didn't get grease on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  discover who you are and who you want to be. As it turns out, MIT and Boston are great places to do this! "Right now I identify as a cisgender queer ... part of elsewhere." There are many people who are welcoming at MIT, but

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  'm so very excited. In the meantime, I’m at home, where apart from the ... psyche. My closets are clean, the messes tucked neatly into shoeboxes and ... note="I read a book once where the main character goes to a nighttime

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  ), teleoperated (where the drivers are controlling the robot's actions) and end ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... . Competitions are set in large arenas with intense two minute matches and hundreds of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say ... graduation approaching. The truth is, we are both going somewhere, and I’m nervous, nervous, nervous about where that is.” Forgive me for being a

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  hard as we made it out to be in our heads—we just patiently followed the ... . Polyhedral puzzles are beautiful both aesthetically and mathematically ... Dillard “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023