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• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  weeks. I had a pretty good time, but I was a picky eater and hated the ... basically a whole meal every hour for a week. When I finally slowed down, they had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated ... values (like a step count). Through my iPhone’s Health app, I have

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , but only a short distance away from Nairobi. I was sitting on the ... make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  . They also protects your devices from being overloaded in the case of a ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  hands for a research job. I have a UROP (Undergraduate Research ... develop a docking port for little satellites on the International Space ... because some idiot forgot a semicolon). Anyways. I spent the last month

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

   watermelon and lots more food from Shaws to [seemingly] the ends of the earth in a ... ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  from the LabCAST podcast, a few museum exhibitions, news coverage etc ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on ... because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  "... no worries, I suppose this is a mouthfull (or a keyboard full??). Hmm ... might be and when I didn't see a "did you mean..." message, I assumed it ... spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  which I cheered and Sam trumpeted -- and, due to a malicious ball of burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... ) in late September, and that I was outside from 2PM-5PM, I'm pretty sure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  a blast. The questions range from “are you afraid of death?” to “if ... socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... students in a (probably) STEM subject for a month. Subjects range from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  calculator obsession, Sanjoy Mahajan suggests a radical departure from the ... away from “bad guys” and throw a stone in a nearby well to ... If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the ... life. Are you hiding something from us?” “I hear it’s really dirty…but I mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  thing from nothing, learned a ton, and had an awesome time with my ... graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine. (To answer the questions from my previous entry: no, really, I graduated

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  almost destroyed the MIT mail servers. An e-mail sent from one laptop to a ... On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was about as popular as anything else I write amongst a prefrosh audience but

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  visit a castle the next morning. From there, we spent 8 hours on the train ... 've been in Germany for a little over a week now and I've already climbed 509 stairs, taken a four-hour tour down through Rhineland, and traveled over

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . You can't get all the information you need from a video -- you can get it from talking to a wide variety of current dorm residents. Second, I ... celebrated with our friends with a cake and some quality reminiscing. I wanted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  working, and like all those who graduate from Tech, has a good tough hide ... controversy from reoccurring, all of the sophomores received a survey at the ... played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  “What’s course 12 again?” That’s a question I deal with a lot when ... breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to climate change, from plate tectonics to exoplanets. Our department is housed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  musical about a mother who struggles with bipolar disorder. one of the more ... . [DIANA] My psychopharmacologist and I Call it a lover's game He knows my ... to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020