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• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  For most of the past month, I was traveling in southeast Asia, a trip inspired by a friend's wedding in Malaysia. It was a hot and steamy holiday ... Asia sometime in the future). Thailand The first stop was Thailand. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  .s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I ... … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with ... of bohemian rhapsody. after that, i lost interest in vinyls. not

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter break. our belongings are still mostly sealed away in boxes and suitcases

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  places students in schools abroad to teach short courses ... a blog about the trip in the near future. This blog is about feeling ... , which coincided with a record-breaking cold wave in Boston. As I waited

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  For the second year in a row, I am teaching a class at MIT. A real, for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On math. Let's back up a moment. The (Loose) History/Background In

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last ... worked vaguely in bioengineering and his research sounded cool. "Let me

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  love. This is an especially challenging task because comics live in the in-between of novels and movies. Novels allow for endless words ... see the difference between writing and drawing. Here is that script in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  Last time I wrote a blog about my academic life, back in November, I ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  ramblings. A lot has happened in the past eighteen months. A pandemic closed ... virus. Gastronomy seemed to be sacrificed in exchange for a sense of ... that later."]nourishment?[/annotation] Perhaps in response to this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I'd like to talk about exactly the opposite - deciding to live in the COVID ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  In an Uber ride during my freshman year, one of my friends turned to ... extracurriculars or the people who sat next to me in class. I was the proud introvert ... else in the car disagreed with my claims of being an introvert. In

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... , grumbling about having to make one of these posters in the first place and ... in Building 68 in the past two weeks, from least favorite to most

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a very long time! Before that, though, I was in Mexico for two months doing

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later ... house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  I’m ranked in the bottom 39% on profile views among my connections on LinkedIn. My pageviews are down 80% from last week, when they peaked at an ... , in a word, frenetic. I loved all of my classes (or at least the idea of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction ... start straying from your desired course. In short, controlling attitude ... rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  -stripped evidence of my baryonic selfhood in three suitcases, two boxes, and a broken ... ankles in urban New England. Slush is a test of courage and moral fiber ... sun-drenched, flip-flop-friendly sidewalks of that other school in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009