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• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of ... test. And even after the test, they still remember. When they run into a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  nothing but praise and applause. Something that would ring through the halls of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... , which i spent dancing with my team and chilling with my floor in Maine. i ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  finally say I’ve drunk from the firehose and tasted it vicious glory; there’s plenty I could say! And I will say those things eventually, but this past ... home! All of this amazing and terrible chaos culminated in me sitting in

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  , responsibilities, meetings, applications. The grind never stops, and it comes at you from every direction. And so you walk all over your workload, checking ... saying that I'm back and Junior year has started. But along with the insane

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  , shake it off, and remember that you will survive, even thrive, wherever you go; whatever you do. Stove-cook your oatmeal and never look back. We ... converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey ... aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of ... function and what we can do with it! What if we can somehow make our text

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in ... saying, ‘Here’s this cool LEGO picture, and by the way, you can follow this

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... peers are clever, enduring, innovative and thoughtful—and sometimes immature, petty and enjoy a good sexual innuendo or two. as i share these

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  Last Saturday was the first ever MIT Mini Maker Faire, and (at least ... written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... ). I’ve been to county fairs with craft exhibition booths and ventured to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  Santa Fe, New Mexico   What: Working at Surroundings and Architecture 2030. Writing about street art, coyotes, and trees. Reading Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Tupac Shakur, and Carson McCullers. Also, Ta

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... ambiguous by design, since Milton is fond of wordplay and double meaning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  . After a few semesters of psets, midterms, finals, and projects, that once youthful prefrosh full of joy and excitement can seem a long way away. Ring ... revealed, and yesterday night the 2016 Brass Rat was revealed! We don’t hold

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY PREFROSH! Yes, they are still called prefrosh, and they will be called prefrosh until convocation when President Reif gets on a stage and says that

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... decided to draw. Expressing myself through color and bad Photoshop layer effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Flies… especially when you are having more fun than you could possibly imagine.

  

  comes to a close culminating in graduation and Tech Reunions on our campus ... MIT class. It was quite a party with a record number of classmates and their families in attendance and ended with the final celebration of MIT

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  likewise very into the Internet as you may have guessed, and as it should be in my opinion. I'm sure we all fall victim to surrendering minutes and ... something like this: A New Yorker cartoon and a Jay-Z&Beyoncé picture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  this semester has been especially fun and out-of-the-ordinary. So two weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... used for conferences and fraternity/sorority semiformals, etc. Our

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011