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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time ... privately. But not for long. An hour and a half later, my professor responded ... , "and I wanted to to write to say that I think the final exam did not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... 1 omelet, freshly made by Kem (the dining hall worker who works at ... much work for you, here are some easier sandwich recipes my friends and I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  phone, I suffered through five minutes trying not to burst out laughing in ... 's like to work there. I chatted with several astrophysics researchers and ... again."). This week, it's back to work. My new model just finished

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  the trees are usually beautiful colors, but not so late that you freeze ... spinning. As I get more experience, I still have to work hard and pay very ... transfer themselves through my body to the piece I'm working with - just like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... MIT Career Fair guidebook, apparently. Not that I used it much during ... center was some of my work for what seems to be calculus. Beside it are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  . Unfortunately, I make student money and am not in a position to just order up a ... mental space working on the loft! And to be honest, it was really hard. Of ... and feeling unsatisfied with the work I had accomplished. Spoiler alert

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  were awesome, and the designers worked super hard all semester, and the ... Corps, which works to solve the pressing environmental issues we are ... biodiverse habitat that not only contains the most living species per square

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... between 16 and 20 and working on their own company. I couldn't believe that ... conferences like this not only because of the people I meet but because of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  finished packing and headed to work ready to jump on the first bus after 5 ... /print/scan all the projects I was working on through the night and then off to the ... was a double decker and not full so I got two seats up top all to myself

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  AP test "blindfolded" (ok not literal), finished in half the time ... pages of worked examples but just seeing a huge blob of numbers and variables melting into each other. Larson, Anton, & "1000 Worked Problems

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  working many, many hours on problem sets," said Wikman, who did not keep ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  convinced me to join his team ^^ "What was the experience of working on the 2007 hunt like?" Working on last year's hunt was a tad bit awkward, but ... , accidentally saw Juno three times." (This is not a lie. I only meant to see it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for ... of not only providing food and shelter to those who have lost their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  history), I had the great idea that after work, she and I could drive down ... to drive in downtown Boston, ever. Also, right after work is rush hour ... was upset, but probably not as much as the people in line behind me, who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  ) Thursday UROP Toy Lab (work on presentation/build toys) Friday 18.03 PSET due (haven't started) UROP Meeting Saturday Work on Toy Design all day Sunday Work on Toy Design all day Monday Work on Toy Design all day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  awkward. they’re some schrodinger’s-marie-kondo-esque dilemma — i do not ... . they worked very hard for it and it was a really good time :)  [carousel ... working for ages for another group ☠️but the group just went with it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  “university” are not interchangeable. I got a few confused looks when I started ... .678,[/annotation] which gave us practice with breadboarding, working with sensors ... scale things down. These 13-14 year olds would not have the same math

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  remaining. the way assassinations work varies year by year: one year it was ... important, because if you know the cycle, you know not only who everyone ... i'm not necessarily going to dinner for the food today: i just know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  super cool ways. Most people on campus have seen some of Borderline’s work ... ’s process and act as scaffolding for her later work. Thus, this piece is ... cover the student’s work, the student draws over the challenges, giving

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  it turns out many people at mit walk really slowly. not in the sense ... anatomy and mechanics, which most mit students possess but have not yet ... very quickly by bulldozing through everyone in your way. i do not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021