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• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here ... pages or longer than fifty. The research can be performed in your Junior ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  , and even though I can see a horde of Psets slowly approaching in the ... of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon as I stepped out of the cab, I could tell that everyone else felt the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  amount of gratitude toward you - yes, you! - for applying. I love learning ... struggles you face in life.   Some of you may be tempted to think ... of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... can also explain why i am slower in conversations? as in, i find it very ... people often think i am smart because i think a lot and can solve a lot of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  . I hate the disparities in its student population. I hate the way I can ... Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day ... think I wrote some quality pieces. Some of them made their way here

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my ... , and then, and then— I hit the wall, in the middle of an IAP which was ... sides of the spectrum, and I can handle it, so why not? It is perhaps true

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.

  

  , a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might ... of you who can't imagine what some of the best desserts on this side of ... think wild and crazy kids in togas. If by togas you mean suits and ties

  • by Bryan
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  most of these t-shirt bearing tech companies in this reality. Instead, I ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most ... , pens, cupcakes, etc.) you can acquire from hundreds of companies set up

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  , but we’ll get the closest approximation that we can in these times. I ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... . Stuck in the confines of my house, the familiar tracks in my mind. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  have some experience in. I know my hair, so I can experiment with it. I ... more experience to judge my looks and tell me what I can improve in my ... I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  sure what could be. In the words of Veruca Salt, "I want one noooooooow ... day of real classes. That's because I got uber lucky and only have one ... ahead of myself, why don't I tell you what I'm taking? 18.03 -- 12 units

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  of MIT’s campus this fall. Currently, I’m living at my home in NYC, and ... amongst ourselves in the class of 2024 since committing back in May. I’m not ... exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  lot of what I was looking forward to in college.   freshman year  As a ... in front of my laptop crunching numbers, latex, or code.  I’m an ... competition class) in the spring with most of the other MechE sophomores, I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  Tumblr is where I put a lot of this reflection. In particular, I seem to ... why you can never have too many of those posts, I think. This was my own ... 's more, some of the effects still linger. I have tried, in the past year

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  can reasonably expect of myself.  I like, have to lay in bed for some ... holy of days), Leo and Athena were sitting in ML. I don’t remember all ... all of her responsibilities. I mean that (mostly) in jest, but I did

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  ? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. I'll answer as many as I can this ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and festivals. I'm having a hard time finding an adequate teacher so far in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  coffee cup in hand, along with a horde of students and tourists, and I ... kind of things that happen in this lobby every week. I’ve walked through ... taking pictures in front of the seal. I’ve stopped to watch the practice

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With ... "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... .”   2. HUBRIS (aka, Biting Off More Than You Can Chew). Sometimes I ... , some you swear you just saw move, many floating in vats of nutrient baths

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017