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• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  look in a crystal ball and see my future self six weeks from now, six ... it’s been a while since i talked about my life. the east campus ... chocolate, and granola bars, and a note. “we look forward to gathering with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  almonds. i get an alert from the ping-pong slack channel: they need a fourth ... actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out the door by 9:45. 10:00 AM arrive at work. my 'commute' is a foggy, yet

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  . and a tweet (from a poet, chen chen, whom i love) that i personally ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the lab doing bench work again after almost a year. i can taste spring on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  challenge, let me tell you about duality – a neat little concept that shows up everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  In sixth grade, even if you had a crush on someone, you would never ... bizarre. The worst thing that can happen is much worse than a simple no. Don ... something is much higher than simply hearing a no. If I invest time and energy

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  from magic; any sufficiently advanced technologist seems like a magician ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a ... existed on a scale of ‘competence at bodypainting’ it seemed like the skills

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it, because our lives are always changing at every moment, every breath being a ... was a gray day. Most days were gray that month. The pandemic had just

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  semester! For real! Okay, sadly, it's a remote program, because *gestures wildly at the state of the world*. Last semester, I took a non-credit class through Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Here's a photo of me in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  "]Bomber[/annotation] merch, so i was psyched about getting it. a senior from the floor printed ... yesterday was a really shitty day.  a lot of annoying and stressful ... bother fixing it since my motherboard is a goner. it took about six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I’m streaming/blogging live from MIT and I’m indescribably excited to start playing. The game takes a pretty long time to complete, but it’s choose your

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  expect a report from your interviewer. Q: Why hasn’t my Quest ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... ’t worry! If you are a finalist – congratulations! We

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  greet. You get a quick spiel about the entry from the GRT(s), and then get ... final entry and room. While this system seems a bit harsh from both ... ), and, after some housing algorithm magic, a couple months later you are

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  and several rainstorms from several feet of table and a window away. We ... emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... floating safe in slimy pink buffer instead of withering into a translucent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  've heard at least a dozen people say they've never met anyone from Kansas and ... third freshman blogger, class of '15, and I thought I would take a second ... with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  from a lackluster turn of phrase, or to propel a drowning post inherently ... from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  better than a note I received just hours afterward from an alumna who had ... even faster - as they had decided to make a 'robotic' arm from their ... About 20,000 visitors took a peek at MIT during last Saturday

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  a homeless woman from the 1600s. I used more conditioner in our two ... it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center convenience store for a pb&j bagel sandwich because we had a hard track

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  , Sheesha: And this is proof positive why I would rather have a cat than a ... : do be sure that if you have a flight at Logan at 6:45pm that you leave ... home on a random weekend like this. I go home for Thanksgiving, Christmas

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  from being relieved of having to work on a 10+ year old sun machine ... back after Thanksgiving break. And somehow with three problem sets and a ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008