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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  -TAWN-Yuh (like “Tanya” with a “Na” in front! Or so I tell people so they don’t call ... skilled in the art of hip-hop dancing; math is my absolute worst subject; I ... thought I’d be now, MIT would be the last place I would have said—if I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  auction to benefit a scholarship fund in Louisiana. One of my friends, Mike '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged kindly. However, soon after, I began to worry about what my auction price

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming ... players in the night), but I look forward to exploring more tomorrow ... distance s starting from rest in a vertically oriented electric dipole. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  would be there, and what I needed to take to my dorm. I was discussing ... live in Boston you need to listen to Tessie and I'm Shipping Up to Boston ... 'm Shipping up to Boston." A lot. I've included some YouTube videos in case you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  .223 as I write this. (though I did hand in all the psets on time! go me!) I quickly gave up on the ASE’s, figuring I would be better off just taking the ... [annotation note="I took a similar class in high school by cross registering

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  ready to analyze. In order to get it ready, I need to "clean" it. What ... and collaboration functions. Next, I engage in an iterative process where I hypothesize about a trend in the data, do an analysis to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... beautiful. I would switch from reading it casually to trying to observe and ... I’ve read are pretty packed in that there are a lot of actions and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i would finally seize these couple of months to explore new interests ... -person. but the simple fact that i'm in my room and not in a classroom ... ="this seems like a lot, but i read 150 books in my junior year of high school

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  packet to a TA and I waltz out of the Z-Center, the sun bathing me in its warmth. "I finished the GIRS, am in a super romantic relationship with ... York City" I AM DONE. Not only with my exams, but freshman year in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  dramatically changed when I began doing biology research my junior year in high ... the default language of the office. At lunch, I would sit and watch as ... understand another world more than anything. After arriving at MIT in 2015 I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  -interpolated constellations swimming in celestial gutters cluttered with light pollution. As I ... packs of gum because I mentioned that the kind you had in your backpack ... , though. For one, I have a UROP (a research job) that’s in a field totally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... I cry. When my kids perform in the 2030s/40s they're going to hear ... Aeneas. We studied this opera in my music class, and I was excited to hear

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  this feeling that I would fit in perfectly. You might want to chime up at ... in the wrong direction, I saw Random Hall for the first time. As I ... my mind. I wrote them down on a board in my room. They stuck. Shifting

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  was facing in SolidWorks, but Solidworks said 💖 No. I would love to say ... ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow ... . Other than that moment and a few others, I would say that when I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... slept in long underwear), tried to remember who and where I was, and stole ... class, while sitting on a chair in the kitchen; I cried for a few minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  We Really Aren’t Kids Anymore avoiding the part where it all has to end

  

  angst, was ultimately the realization that time was passing. I would never ... on my wing of Next House, I would need to just make that happen. And ... , I was feeling angsty and wrote this blogpost about being a sophomore

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... interested in film and theater lately i’ve been coming to terms with the fact ... there really isn’t any reason i need to be working in stem. for instance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... : Walking to work. I walked a lot this summer. Living in a place where public ... sneered. "I'm not going to go in there. They probably sprinkle weird brain

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  just got a lovely writeup in Technology Review. When I started that draft, though, I didn't have a grasp of how important Hunt would be in my life ... Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025