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• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  out a large survey [annotation note="checking my emails from ian waitz ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over ... with a similar decision next semester, when - theoretically - juniors

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  selection of images from the past month that have a similar vibe of not-quite ... . Here I captured a brand in transition from Big Corporate Capital Letters ... I'm approaching the end of the first month of my internship at a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  shattered my hopes of getting an A in this class, so it went from being my ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes ... extension from S^3 when you’re literally too hosed to function. There are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  have a bracelet with nine beads from each of the Youth Advocates and our ... League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a ... mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / People & Identities

  what is and isn’t me (rush, part 1) and the somewhat methodical unraveling of self

  

  this is a refrain I’ve heard many times from many people at many ... , or was it just a carryover from how I felt about the “guys spaces” that ... but try and look away from. This is especially true of a wonderful

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • October 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  my treatise with a grain of salt (it's from my observations of my peers ... 't come from a very prestigious high school or a magnet science/tech school ... for 18.01 (as a lot do from the Calc BC exam): Fall Spring 8.01x 8

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  balls from an elevated platform and score them into a zone on the opposite ... working with my team to take our design from a sketch in a notebook to a ... Every freshman’s first few weeks at MIT tend to follow a predictable

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  this weekend was a hectic one for my living group. [annotation note ... final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... 's, a popular rooftop bar in Harvard Square, to catch up with some friends

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up ... the inline skate community, one of my first images of a “rollerblader ... until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  alum, wrote the following comment on my Hacks and Meta-Hacks entry from a ... tend to have a lot more on hacks from the '80s and '90s than the '60s and ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  a breather from classes, Admissions Officers are in our seemingly ... thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... 't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  certain we got some looks from people for bringing a cart around ... that people talk to when they're bored?) i've always thought there's a ... image1="70896" image2="70897" /] groceries, including bringing a cart

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like ... . From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  a long while, for dinner. We live farther away from each other this ... second. A Facebook post from my friend, Pedro P. ‘17: “I didn't know I ... from someone to hang out. I’ll never refuse lunch or a coffee run. If I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or Aero ... to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with an Elon Musk Q+A). We ... camp" known as Unified Engineering, smiling in front of a 747 at the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  lot about how to make a successful campaign, from contacting newspapers ... graduates Benjamin Harvatine '12 and Seth Berg '14 who recently built a ... , Ben Harvatine '12 got a concussion that went undetected. He continued

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  morning trek from our apartment took about 30 minutes, but it was a welcome ... an interesting segue from a summer of research into a semester of ... processor. Let's call it a "Time Experiment" and pretend we know what we

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Together in Service MIT community working collaboratively

  

  I love a good theme. I make a big deal over birthdays in my family ... around a central theme, like flight, or pictures, and once even The Sound of Music. (I know, that one is a little out there.) But the point of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech aggregators instantly pounced on and reblogged. His own blog (incidentally, a ... ) does a pretty thorough job technically documenting the project, but you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  . Aside from chasing a freaked-out squirrel through a corridor, I haven ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously ... .03, though it's extremely obvious that I haven't taken a math class in a year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011