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• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  bigger hit than “Cooler than Me” (at the time of this post, 1.3 billion ... bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what ... rates of mental health issues because of the pressure. At an hour

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  sides. The three of you spend the next half hour chipping at the parts of ... foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... delicate and costly red glass ball at the end, and send it slowly shooting

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  spot of all time, but I did lift the title of an obscure yet underrated song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT, having just wrapped up an STS UROP, now contemplating a second major of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  office(s) at your school(s) of choice with emails, letters, and phone calls ... of a student's ability to thrive at Stanford is through demonstrated ... want when they enroll at MIT, so this will not be a critical part of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  list of three things I learned this semester that I didn't learn from my ... saw that a motor drives up and down. You hold a piece of wood and push ... ="residence exploration, a ton of events during orientation week where frosh explore the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  of). Every Sunday night at 8.30 pm, we prepare our pancake batter (or ... In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a Master's student instead of an undergrad is that I have a bit more free

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

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  consider IB and AP at the same level of course rigour? 40% of last year's AP ... grade i did well at school..i am into a lot of extra curricular activities ... . But there are a lot of things I do at home, just because I am interested

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The ... in the Sonic Jubilance concert in the second week of the semester. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  you want to do for, potentially, the rest of your life. Even here at MIT ... For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... , wrote some things, designed some things, and gave away a bunch of ... of the experiment to see what would happen if we took four students

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption id="attachment_58052" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 31 days of being

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... move: forward. And so you pick yourself up. And you take it one thing at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and i met a lot of new people, including our amazing new bloggers, and i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  fantastic showcase of the various arts and performance groups at MIT:   ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don ... project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... sending water + people goo down a water slide at high speed), you get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... . The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  teenagers felt like one of my biggest achievements at MIT. Because finally, I ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025