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• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  schoolwork. I’ve told myself I wanted to CAD something for a long while now ... ’t. I stare at the Solidworks logo for a couple seconds and then go back ... pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a ... minutes for a domestic flight – not bad, right? Well, it turns out that ... . Waiting for a rep took an hour. I made it past security, hoping all the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  by for a burger (vegetarian options available) and some good ... showing up for a lovely home cooked meal. Make your own fire spinning prop ... to be a prefrosh. I thought that fire spinning was *too hardcore* for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics ... predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... ? Last semester it was “no” for me, but this semester it’s “yes, I am

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short ... is like taking a drink from a fire hose," right? (If you haven't, I ... classes at MIT is like riding a train whose speed increases exponentially

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... school is somewhat an apprenticeship in which you prepare yourself for a ... breaks from lab eventually :) And for those of you applying, I'm in a

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a ... an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do ... job I hate. But I know that's a lot to ask for. And I know this is so ... proving a point that I'm good enough for CS, when in reality, I don't have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl ... 't unsee the work behind these products. There's a bajillion people for every nibbly little step. This job made me have a deeper appreciation for not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  /facebook/snapchat stories. For the uninitiated, you will quickly pick up on how it works as ... ^-^ Abby: “been to verdes after 2 am”: I had a radio show from 1-2 in the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  makes even a bit of sense, and throwing out various swear words every two and a half seconds." You've always loved math, but you're not exactly good at learning it - it takes forever and a day to understand everything

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  changed. CJ lives in New York, where they work for Stainless, a company that ... might stay here for a few years, and it became I'll see if I'll want to ... me from getting too hurt when I leave, or to prepare me for starting a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This ... not to inundate this post with a couple thousand extra words. I could ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do

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

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  up? Nope. I went for a 5 mile run to test out the waters: My big ... realize...it's a tunnel. A tunnel for cars. But now I've gone too deep. I ... too much time on youtube or (if i'm feeling particularly productive) a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  , though, we're all looking for a good match, and since each of these schools ... guys usually shoot for a 1:1 gender ratio. Do you have any stats on this ... we have a preference for women, it's just that those 12 women in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid. Likewise, it took a year for my relationship with my parents to settle down ... out to his family. Here's his story.   A little over one year ago, I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... MIT is still on break. January here is a free-for-all of independent ... a lab to staying at home and playing Guitar Hero for an entire month

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  being flat-out offensive. If we are to hope for a brighter tomorrow, then ... Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a previous entry about Spring 07 classes, I took a short story writing class ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  /ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022