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• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  need to know to learn When the first exam week came in late September, I ... intended to keep them that way. As the first exam week came, I failed the ... these models and what tickles them was the key to knowing how to solve

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  life returning to the Infinite. The new pre-frosh, sans pre, are arriving ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ) because there are research opportunities year-round, and we get to meet

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... been built, so Building 5 is still the main entrance to MIT. We also see ... the center-left, we see a streetcar going to [annotation note

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... passers-by. Me: Hello! We're trying to get to Floyd; could you help direct

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  for the first time afterwards and getting a little key tag with a ... the first time you went to Portland you had just discovered you liked ... summer. It's been an interesting summer; I've really enjoyed being able to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  First off: I apologize for the shakiness of this video. For some ... give me steady enough footage to not cause motion sickness. Whoops. The ... you try to speed up an already-wobbly video to 800%, it becomes a blurry

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  . To get this, you audition (open to the entire community, from first ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  pretty simple, maybe would only take about 2.5 hours to complete at first ... i recently experienced my first weekend at mit with classes finally ... great the first semester and did average around that second semester. so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  A few days ago, President Reif emailed the MIT community to announce ... fighting the pandemic. The webinar is open to the public, and will be hosted ... interested in science writ large, I wanted to boost this event so more people

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  having a reason to look stuff up and learn things in the first place. I ... website! I teamed up with Dylan L. ’23 and Emma Q. ’23 to make em7.io. You input the melody to a song, and then it automatically generates a harmony

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  , all old things returning.) We walked to a boulangerie and ate the best ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits of the loaf to share, letting its flakes fall to the ground between us

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... . sometimes i’ll write blog posts where i have a few key points i want to ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  to take to work the following day. I think the key, for me, is to not ... years ago! where has the time gone??"]first started[/annotation] blogging ... format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... ."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a lot of first impressions, both good and bad. here they are: this city

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of classes What some MIT freshman schedules look like.

  

  Yesterday was the first day of classes at MIT. I remember the excitement and anticipation I had on my first day back in 1996; I wish I could ... a first term freshman at MIT? What you'll generally see is something

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  doing with yourself? First, you definitely don't need to know exactly what ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and ... /molecular/cellular biology department with a lot of people who like to do computational stuff

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  for the first time, and found that I really enjoyed it. Being able to ... people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... morning, of the cold, sunny walks to and from the bus stop, and of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  !....what’s it about?….oh! that’s right, infinite series.”*Back to sleep*. That ... are, to understand the problems that you don’t get the first or second ... written a while ago, but I've been unable to publish it until now. Enjoy

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009