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• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  I remember those equally persistent summer days in Alaska, where the ... Summer in Alaska, I learned this July, is an exuberant, unrestrained ... , if aimless. I re-read all the Newbery-winning books I loved in

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I ... notes from that lecture can be found here, in PDF format. There are lots ... postdoc attempts to publish anything and everything he/she can in order to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... or concerts - last spring I got in free at the Angels and Airwaves

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  For five weeks this summer, I competed in dormspam-the-game, a series ... later in the post, when I discuss the rules for each game. I somehow ... small prize of $15. In my last post, I wrote about Game 1: Hide and Seek

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don't know where Clay got the idea he could fill out a pair of leather pants

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... in Course VI, and many people (Jessie included, I believe) count it as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... . (By the way, as you can tell from the number in the photo above, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s so many weebs in this school…jkjk” but then I was like “... unless ...   dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  the email itself. I can't say I've written many good ones in my time ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... -standing tradition. It's so deeply ingrained in our floor history that when I visited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as I currently am -- I wanted to inspire frosh to see what they can build

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  trying processes I've endured, with the anxiety of not really knowing where ... David in tow, I visited Random Hall, one of MIT's more distinctive ... . ;-) I chatted with Mike '09 in the basement, along with Antti, a prefrosh

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... how can I make a therapy, how can I use this protein as a marker for cancer detection, how can I simulate this phenomenon on a chip, etc. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2025!

  

  gardening when I can to stay cool during extreme heat waves I'm fleeing to the mountains for a much-needed vacation, where I will sit in backyards ... anything isn’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and Petey or I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  ’re in an area where the tech is overemphasized, but I wanted to emphasize ... station in the project region will be set up where observers can exchange ... on bold ideas that I find MIT instills in students so well. His Hacker

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018