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• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

  (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my fellow FIRST alumni out there, it’s sort of like FRC, but for products ... design and build working alpha prototypes of new products, learning about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers). It's one of my favorite classes so far ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L.A. Times Festival of Books recently and heard Monica Youn read this poem ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big ... . Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... start of my freshman fall, we were still amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  , like if they’re busy or have a bunch of personal issues to work through ... mean is that these are problems many of my friends struggle deeply with ... figured out, part of me is happy for them and part of me is jealous, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ... second is something that spun out of a series of conversations between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you ... to get to know different aspects of each individual. Here are this year

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... , especially in the early rays of daybreak, when the sun strikes my solar ... attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... Jamilla Jamison (formerly of our office, now at Harvey Mudd), about how to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... . It is the smallness of the bullet that gives it power. Likewise, poetry is such a dense, compact form of language. It packs pages and pages

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  called "Hidden Treasures at MIT"(HT@MIT) that take some of the hidden ... beginner pistol first quarter of my freshman year because I wanted to start ... afternoons were the highlight of every week. But why I enjoyed it so much was a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... "thing" will be 1.00, every day of this semester. But I promised myself I ... Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012