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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Riddles, Research, and Nerds with Power Tools My week.

  

  since Simmons opened in 2002. In addition to a slew of Simmons residents ... to say, it was completely ridiculous in a way that could only ever happen at MIT. In addition to helping out with a bunch of traditional pen

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  for serious business and once to meet with my high school classmates in ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  opportunity to take a graduate-level course in education (I had many graduate ... 're going to crossreg than actually do, mostly because MIT's offerings in the ... Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  there so much they moved in early to hang out with you guys!  They can ... information...let’s get to the most important part of REX -- our events!!! We ... could have by living here. We’d like to make this blog corny and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  less productive; the joy in just getting to spend time with friends, even ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly ... of desperation as you get closer and closer to the end of the day; a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... conveniently landed on my last day in Kansas and I was able to visit my old team

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the ... personal identity in an MIT class, in pairs, and a classmate comes up to me ... that gender identity is important to me. He begins to explain in detail

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did ... cool to be done with non-applied math (*sigh of relief*). In terms of ... energetic projects. Here, it kind of gets in the way of me having the work

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  didn't get to go to any when I was in high school, this was actually my ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... not after I made sure we had a map, because it's really easy to get lost

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in ... cone next to the felled fire hydrant, like a battlefield cross. Rest in ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... featured in my blog according to my law of conservation of webspace. We had ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  follow. I think to myself, as I'm hunched over my laptop and holed up in ... am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... consequences? No, I do not want to play chess. "You have to get used to losing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... lounging in the grass: I need to do that way more often.   Plans ... -Orientation Program run by students in the physics department. I'm going to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  . I clicked my way to the PE site, saw that yoga was offered in the T ... be worth showing up early to get the form signed. The first thing I ... I've been to. The third thing I noticed: everyone in the room seemed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  up at the rest stop to find myself in the mist of a blizzard to welcome ... and went to visit friends at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. I met ... about. Afterwards, I went to my favorite restaurant in Harlem, Manna

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  close your eyes and put your finger on the map and other ways to make grad school decisions

  

  you get to know  Now I’m in a big city. I don’t go out into Boston as ... learn, and there are many cool MechE classes I won't be able to fit in to ... , just from talking to people, but I know so little about the programs in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  , I can get caught in my head; I like the freedom to pause and breathe ... ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  -athletes to get their take on sports at MIT and the current 2023 fall season ... -athlete because it is hard to find the friendships and bonds you get with your ... though we lost 0-8 (cry), it was so fun to go on a road trip and stay in a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos ... in macgregor so I'm painting on clear contact paper try not to paint

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012