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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  . It's hanging outside my closet in a (probably vain) attempt to get the ... lunch. I'm half-convinced that any minute now I'm going to get a call or ... to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... entire blog post without periodically saving it (I like to live on the edge

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  , decompressed, and ready to get going again. And that's how you resurrect ... From May 9th to May 13th (a Friday, naturally), MIT students endured ... short span of two semesters, the term starts to lose its meaning. It

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  rolling backpacks and headgear. It's not that my throwback to the early 90s ... getting places quickly, maybe, but not so useful for getting places looking ... haven't rollerbladed since I was much closer to the ground. Speaking of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  cooking dinner with my boyfriend and he was telling me about his visit to UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... , introducing them to her favorite trees and caves and perches from which to view

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  coffee, played some cards, and then it was time to get off the boat :( Now ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... wants to come here. I know, I know, right? It's true though. I know if I were you and someone said that to me, I'd probably have ignored them and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  sure this is condoned. Just to get everybody in trouble, clockwise from ... 't get over this. Fortunately, the videos were preserved. When I hopped ... the background. I got my plane buddy Philip '12 to pull Tim the beaver

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... morning I'll be getting another phone call: "THAT IS A FAMILY SECRET!") But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  when I get a chance, but in the meantime, this is a good time to talk ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  happened while I was on my way to my advisor's office to get his signature on ... excited about it. It's physics! What's not to be excited about? What's not exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  hours to get the project done! However, fitting the individual nopales ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was ... process, a guest lecturer, and lab time to test out the process for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  then (finally) get a dog. Everything was going according to plan. I was getting lots of responses to my applications, did several phone interviews ... seemed like everything was the worst and it was hard to just get out of bed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... left to get a snack. When I returned, I was out of breath (there was a ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  wanting to engage with class material was gone. Again, big deal. Who gets ... , to “get by”, but far below what it felt like to be swimming in new ... . There’s been getting to know the new friends in my life, both at the dorm

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student ... mention that if you're good enough to get into MIT grad school, well ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  insecurities happens to be loneliness, other people get ensnared in emotionally ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022