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• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... ’t threaten your own chance of success, they enhance it. In many cases, what may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... experiences deserve equal recognition in who we become, some just color you more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... me moving 5 ft forward in the East Campus courtyard, scared out of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... -ever Cherry Creek High School robotics team when we started in 2013. That's me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I ... unusually light—probably because the variety in my classes (algorithms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Indian Trail, North Carolina, the qualifier for the US Championships in ... . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  “Einen Faden in die Hand nehmen, der in jedem Fall, unter allen ... take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city lights, and academic pursuits. In my parents' home, I have my sister, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is ... background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though ... is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... that I've gotten via email/FB message/owl post in the past few months. 1

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes and learn in an environment that better suits your style. The problem

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  Game in the middle of his lecture slides* and then inexplicably flings ... believe he was attempting to demonstrate something about tension in field ... drive looked pretty expensive.) *All seven people in attendance during

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... (which all had the same plot, in case you didn't notice by the time you ... of stairs in two hours on Friday night. That's 12 times up the tallest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live in the same room forever, I have lived in a different room (and a ... 's miniCooper, and installed it in our room. (I am unfortunately not kidding

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  sound interested in a game that her boyfriend plays :}} Well, the answer is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... night, sometimes alone and sometimes with 40,000 English fans in K

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006