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• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  particular. At the beginning of every summer, I feel a particular flash of ... 't really have a concept of personal projects. I wanted to learn new things ... Learned I think it's easy to look at these trackers from all of these

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  embracing memories of my time at MIT because I feel that's already talked about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... . Whenever I meet someone new who clocks me as some amount of Gay, they almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  robot that will play in a competition at the end of January. The goal for ... . We changed our method of ball deployment from one by one to all at once ... done in one day. It was a loooooong day, believe me. At the end of it we

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  As of noon today, I am officially done with my first year at MIT. I turned in my last final, walked out of the exam room into the bright Boston sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... , were our special guests at our annual convention in November. And of ... ! Lots and lots of amazing math art on display at the Bridges conference

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• 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 ... 'm around two weeks into it at this point, so it wasn't a sudden shift alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  transfer applications in my Simmons dorm room. The heads of house at the time ... for the 20th anniversary of the blogs, I originally hadn’t planned on ... in from all corners of the world and sharing the many adventures post

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within my dorm (East Campus). I've spent a lot of time living by my own agenda ... or to sleep. I seem to value the pursuit of my own goals a lot more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  of Sunday afternoon brunches at IHOP after the wait at the Friendly ... had to name one aspect of myself that has changed the most in the last year, it has to be the volume of hair on my head. Although I always

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  stare at part b. Inductance is nothing more than the result of geometry, I ... in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... 'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  before July 4th, at the end of the annual Boston Harborfest. It’s earlier ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  not this much success at a national level, too?  WRONG!  The limits of ... famously nerdy culture. But also: the MIT where 25% of the undergraduates participate in one of the 33 varsity sports. The MIT where, underneath all the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  seemed a weird and out of character, or at least been uninteresting. Out of ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... [/caption] technological issues For most of the past few months, my 10-year old ipad that I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don't what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... my new phone everything was very small and hard to tap. I was way past

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  involved no playing of instruments at all, but it was cool... I'm the new ... at too high of a temperature, you won't get any crusting at all ... of it like a box full of memories. ...and the Trumpet of Coffee On

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  grader, but not because of the grade they gave me at all. See, I have this ... to make sense of the math as I worked through it. At the end of the ... worthless. =( at the end of question 2. (To be fair, I wrote this at like 3 AM

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , but have been left wanting for different electives among a sea of MIT biology classes on the microscopic, the thermodynamics of drug absorption, or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  awesome UROP at the Page lab, and some of the rest volunteering as a brother ... everywhere. You might have seen me if you walk down the Infinite at the right time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011