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• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  ] When I first moved to America, I made all efforts to stay in touch with ... In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... now” If you had said that statement to any of my classmates from high

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  challenges that have to be solved. The first is actually being able to detect ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... Harvard, and me :) I'm really excited to be working with this group this

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese ... images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious ... to dislike. You tell people you don't really like bacon and they tell

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  i’m gonna keep this short so i can get to posting real content again ... in writing Last semester I tried to get all my writing requirements out ... ’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  &ab_channel=JonBois At first, I was just going to copy Jon's idea ... to make a weight chart at first, and then I changed my mind to a height ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I tried holding out, but I was young and wanted to fit in, so peer pressure ... eyes, took a deep breath, and flipped to a random page. Little did I know

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . at first i said that this didn't sound right, because i like to think ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  Hampshire's Frankenstein Cliffs. Big shoutout to my first trip leaders ... , bread. (2) Forget to add mayo. (3) Hike 10 miles through snow, over ice ... was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect when I got here. Sara had mentioned the play in class our first week, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... living at Northwestern for the summer makes it difficult to also live at ... row and everything is really getting to me, so when I was taking a break

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  running what appears to be the first version of linux ever, but even being ... Several things happened last week of note. Monday was the first day ... I had traveled to Maryland (where my mom now lives due to work) to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  The dramatic conclusion to my three-part series of entries about the ... RA there (basically, Residential Life funds cool events I want to run ... ). I also helped run the Assassins' Guild "Guildcamp" (Paul has to report

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... first-order ones. Woo! A sign of improvement! Anyway, here. Have something that wants to be substance one day when it grows up. It's April

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our ... So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  . Maybe it was their first day. Ruth laughed heartily. I managed to get a ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders ... better just not even bother clicking the link below; trying to download all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  was a ~little~ hard to see. Around that time I first heard of neural ... I first met two years ago, one of the researchers I talked to during ... Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to ... motivation to do things. I was given weeks, but only paid my pistol club dues the very last day. I was supposed to send the email requesting an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... to be assigned my first choice class here too- 21F.716 (Introduction to ... annoying question ever." This trip down memory lane brings me to...my first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research. But I first became interested because if you figure out those beautiful things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  departments. Many weren’t open to first years, and many required more coding ... “I’m going to UROP this summer!” I told my mom over the phone. Later ... said, “Aren’t you going to Europe?” “No, that was last year. There’s a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021