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• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was gonna say like guts in a murder scene, but maybe that's a tad bit too ... calendar. I like checking off tasks in my bullet journal. I like my string

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... with me in East Campus over the summer as well. But the first two weeks ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  you can enjoy that!). No one can move from living in a house to on their own in one day and have no problems, so hopefully these tips and tricks ... honestly something I have not yet mastered hahaha. When I was in high school

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  will offer advice on how to succeed, unless you’re me, in which case they ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of ... should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable copyfight. Nor is it ... many other in disrupting our service to protest SOPA and PIPA. Here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  was in fifth grade, right before spring break. I was called into the ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... offered the opportunity to go visit the iRobot HQ. Knowing that I might not ... it back from our 6 hour trip in one piece with the Roomba! This past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I ... this! Classes CMS.701 Current Debates in Media taught by Ed Schiappa Addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  these past few months, like Celeste or Night in the Woods. Well, the one I've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... of video game where you control a character and fight monsters in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In ... residents on the north side of Highways 36. Obviously not everyone in my ... family found ourselves in the following awkward situation while in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  food in a pan Almost exactly twelve months ago, I had never cooked a full meal in my life, if you don't count boiling a hot dog, pouring ... assigned. My parents (who met at a university with a mandatory 20-meal

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  --it was the farthest I’d been from the MIT bubble in months. When the plane ... first semester in MIT was over. Since then, I’ve been with my aunt and her family in North Carolina. We’ve been visiting relatives, eating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  that there is one puzzle in the universe you have not solved: what did ... You're sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie ... life (right? right?) - e-mail her! You're in the mood for a more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that ... provide great communities for students that complement those found in MIT ... , integrity, and growth. We encourage values-based recruitment, in that we hope

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  glass, and welded sculptures. One company was offering free test rides on ... pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... noticed, and appreciated, when a woman who worked in stained glass explained

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  Resources." This post expands on CLAAASS to discuss MIT Academics in general ... ), 8 HASS subjects (including at least one in each category of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and 3-4 subjects in one department to attain a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... Catherine: we shall see who will roflstomp whom! Or, so scholars believe. In

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  around five hours to reach South Station in Boston, but the six of us ... jokes, like this one: A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician sit in ... sighting of the dome! We’re close. We arrive at the check in place in the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  dozens and dozens of cool classes offered in Course 2, but most students ... over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... involved in obscure programs) can identify their major in one number of one

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  fascinating algorithms class, taught by two of the biggest names in the budding ... project. 18.704 seminar in algebra. seminars are this mit math department ... interesting book, but i'm more interested in the categorical parts of the class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022