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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  My cat is a little ball of static lately. It can't be too much fun to be a cat in the winter time. Today I wrested the last fateful drop out ... before turning them in for good. If I don't sound terribly grateful to the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a ... evaluations for us to fill out about him. I suggested that we work in small groups on the recitation problems, because well...I need help in 18

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  snippets from a semester minus academics, of course

  

  and you can hit up multiple parties in a night, but i chose to stay at ... fantastic because i got to see a lot of teams perform for the first time in two years. mocha moves — for my 5th semester on mocha, i danced in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  MIT, I always think back to one song. There are a lot of songs in Hamilton that I can break down and relate to my life, but this one strikes me ... . i was either in a powerful enough place where i could slip into that

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  own. I managed to sputter in reply, "Of course," before realizing that I ... called to do so as brothers and sisters of this world and I hope that in ... , especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  video. I did and they liked it so they flew me out to film! I can only ... do in your free time? I spent most of my time making things in the ... super well with Moogega and Ivan. What did you build in the EE lab? I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far ... multiple bottles/cans of caffeine. I ended up taking 384 pictures of CPW, so

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for ... got free art materials from MIT over IAP, which I'll talk about in a ... I've never been so excited for a semester. I'm taking classes that

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  Course 6, I can firmly attest to the fact that our lounge sucks, and as a ... comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has their own course lounge - a designated space for majors in each course to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... . In the time that has elapsed since then, I have spoken with numerous ... . But I’m writing this primarily because I believe that that can change

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  amazing mother repeated this to me almost every night as she tucked me in. I ... what, Mom?” I asked. “That the sky is the limit. That you can do anything ... in my life. After all, who really cares?   3. "I've met a lot of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this ... graduate, how I got started in VR, every blog post I've written related to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  -thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing… Maker Portfolios! Making the world better, one portfolio at a time

  

  by training (MIT-educated in Course 2) so I wanted to know all the ... system! In the meantime, you can watch me talking at Maker Faire last May ... Please note that, as  Hello World! I'd like to introduce you to a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  hate that I can't understand Malayalam, or feel comfortable in any ... cost?? For the record, I had no social life in high school—I took a ... in order to get a chance at kissing him? What??? I'm mad, y'all. Also

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a small covering near the door. As you can see, I am completely drenched in ... was a long trip.) I'd been to Paris before, but I wanted to ride the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  our constraints. my robot was juuuust under 16 in long."][/annotation] I ... finish and turn in my 2.007 notebook by '5:00'... I got back to Next around ... happening." I spent the 45 minutes I ended up having prior to the concert in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019