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• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  fall, my obsession continues.  So when walking back from dinner at New ... homework at my desk. Somehow, I’ll have to swap the idea of MIT for what is ... ) demoralized at my inability to solve problems with the grace or speed of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... "mitt" then you will be stared at strangely, no joke. If all of this ... of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... the rest of me, smashed directly into the passenger side at about a 45 ... , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  projects and whatnot. This is a new phenomenon for me: I had a bit of an existentialist crisis at the end of sophomore year, when I realized that I hadn' ... gave a decade-by-decade look at the history of the Institvte, and helped

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  the rumors and the misconceptions, to unwind and have buckets of fun at ... Saturday is a singular bag of nacho cheese Doritos and a fun-sized bag of M&Ms. Sunday is waffles. Monday is Insomnia cookies. Tuesday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten ... reasons that are still unclear, the sampling of East Campus bloggers has yet ... the dorm, for what it may be worth. Yes, each of East Campus' ten floors

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  answered a lot of questions, but she also got a lot of questions, and other ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real ... of pranks. Not all pranks are hacks. Not all hacking is pulling hacks

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  Stata, at least from the front (don't look at the back of the structure ... 're building the Stata center out of gingerbread today and Teresa is also here. Much of yesterday was spent baking 15 sheets of gingerbread, each 12"x18

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  ) Make some kind of scrapbook/album of your time at MIT Travel and eat ... Take Off - September 6, 2017 I've Been Staring At The Edge of The ... drop silence of the reading room is honestly better suited for taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  blink of the eye really in the scheme of things, back across the years that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all, depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  humanistic academia. At a certain level of analysis, we're a little like oil ... Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  future, the vision or meaning of which I hadn’t thought through at all ... carpet of her second-story bedroom at 11pm switching between homework and ... the end of the line and I get off at the other end of the line, and then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  slate at times. The weight of work, psets, expectations (both internal and ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and ... for some things to improve and change as time goes on. One of the most

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  new topic. I was feeling unsure of myself after having understood ... creating pulses of electricity for the right amount of time at the right ... a lot of it is learning how to learn. At one point a TA asked me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  constantly fluctuating sets of policies at MIT and beyond, such as the absurd ... in, even if you wish they'd pass. No, the hardest part of arriving at ... , about the mission of care that the students at this school have for each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  pass/no record. This has become my new mantra; instead of #yolo for all ... -eyed Dennis-ness. For even if life throws thousands of lemons at you, curve ... Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea ... A photo posted by Michael Cheung (@m_cheung_) on Apr 13, 2016 at 4

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning ... some of his new pieces, and last week, I went to the legendary Scullers ... this post had nothing to do with Portal, but that's sort of like stating

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  . I think it's one of the most popular classes at MIT and a fan favorite ... One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... so critically damped, in danger of tilting towards instability at any ... Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017