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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hours weekly to make sure I knew everything from Chinese 1 and 2 as well ... popped up and started speaking to my friend in Chinese. I hardly even got ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  ? Whenever I talk to other MIT students, there's so much reminiscing. Always ... overwrite old memories with fresh ones. I wish I didn't have to revere things that used to be very normal, like studying at a certain spot or bumping

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  and what I'm doing this summer. I'm doing this because a) I need to ... 've ever been, and I'm sure they'll only get harder. :( But I got to spend ... ... it wasn't too bad. (More to come later.) What am I doing this summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  headed to office hours for both Physics and Real Analysis as the psets for ... Transitioning from first to second semester has actually been pretty ... schedule. Compared to first semester, I now have more classes, more homework

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  home for the competition, I had some time (read: a few hours) to spend ... 2018 is turning out to be quite the adventurous year. I kicked off the year by packing up all my stuff in Boston, hauling most to storage

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... Facebook event, I went hysterical to say the least. Yall! Second chances

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  in session yet. the snow's only just turned to rain and we've had two ... package of semisweet chocolate chips INSTRUCTIONS: Preheat oven to 375 ... dish. Use a knife to draw a pattern on top if you're feeling fancy. Bake

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  <4 hours the night before because I was trying to finish some ... a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack ... . Regardless, I covered my costume, went to a really cool meeting in the morning

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  around Cambridge), working over 40 hours a week, commuting and having to ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the amount of time you have outside of the school year to explore different places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  -enjoying our three hour cruise was over and it was time to head back to the dorm ... time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... be a great idea to swap jackets. While the black jacket with blue

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No, really, I'm convinced I'm allergic to Florida. I've never had allergies

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ... set of railroad tracks on the way to his house, he said, "And this on ... joking - this is my father we're talking about. (Hi, Dad.) I drove back to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... responsibility apparently has to do with novel concepts like time management and being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  The Accidental Harvard Class It is possible to miss a class. Not in ... sequel to 801), WGS.151 Gender, Health, and Society, and WGS.229 Race ... . Junior fall, I wanted to take a Harvard class. Philosophy of Education

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  recommend going to this event; although it's two hours, I don't think they ... Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  [/latex] (true by definition — a tau-tology, if you will), it’s important to ... important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021