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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  reserved. I was supposed to have it for the whole day, so that was awkward. I ... kids come to Spark) which had just about enough room for one big square ... to sit back there and hit "next slide" for me. To teach, I stood on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  tangible ways. for now, i’m just going to take Scott’s advice and do ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  Now that it's too late to turn back you've decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  message to that person looking back, and it is this: go find the magic ... experience these lives singing against mine for as long as we choose to? and ... Isola lab I’ve been trying to investigate certain claims, for example by

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  wonderful opportunity for a worthwhile cause. Also, we get to learn and ... look forward to. IAP is the best time for adventures and new experiences ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... and personal development of first generation students at MIT. MIT's 17
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  with my academic work. Even at moments when missing classes to study for ... letters. You can feel the impulse to reach for his face and break it. You ... getting accepted for publication. On print, it came out to about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... astrophysics to fusion to now doing research in computer vision for ecology. If ... mentoring for Project Manus. So far, I’ve traveled to five countries through

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and ... cook for tEpikazoo, an 80-person feast for three of MIT's hungriest ... mentioned it for about 1/4th of a sentence, but I like to prolong my fleeting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... realistically we only had time for about 40 people to cut out their drawings. And ... sheets of paper for their friends. Almost all of the team had to leave

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Japanese textbook for beginners. My goal is to finish Genki II by the end of ... one-hour lesson and then you're free to ski or snowboard for the rest of ... ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  Spooner, who Wikipedia advertises as "notable for absent-mindedness". This ... American singer. Spooner was particularly plagued by a tendency to swap syllables between adjacent words, often to comedic effect. An inattentive

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book ... means by "magnitude." In astronomy, we use the word "magnitude" to ... and somewhere near the bigness of a star. There's no golden chain to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  happened before and there was no obvious way to fix it. I went for a consult ... butter, led to me being nicknamed after a sandwich for several weeks. Then ... For the last few months, I've gone round campus compiling hair

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  use for everything else. Every morning, I would wake up and come down to ... perhaps to come from the verb alo, to feed, nourish, and develop. This is ... novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  it must be a draw for many other people too. Yet somehow I made it to ... Morrison, listened to a new song, and looked over my last assignment for ... the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is NEET?

   School of Engineering. The program aims to educate young engineers to build the new machines that will address societal needs by preparing them to ... personal and interpersonal skills. Students will get an SB degree from the
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for ... I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival ... this time, I had already been here for two months. I knew how to navigate

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013