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• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a ... to give it another going over. This time we made time for a photo op

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... -by-step folding instructions on a single sheet of paper. But when I came to MIT, I ... of many simple “modules” linked together to form a larger, more

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... more excited to be a coauthor of a scientific paper, as I told myself I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think ... , during my trip to work on the Muti Water Project (see the blog post "A ... to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts during spring break. A trip, also

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  Andrea H. '18 have been planning a pancake-eating contest for weeks to ... pancakes being delivered to us were 30% batter. As a table of 5 people, we ... -Entry went on a road trip northward to Montreal. Beforehand, I thought it would

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  can't spare an hour to watch the interview here, have a look at these ... model everyone wants to emulate. This is a hit with the audience. On choosing to make Khan Academy non-profit: "What's a home run in the for

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like ... relate to heat transfer and fluid dynamics. 2.007 will be a fun class. Basically, the goal of the class is to design a robot to accomplish certain

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  . (when i told her this, she said she was going to mail me a bunch of ... of the transition to full adulthood. it's a funny stage of life that we ... 's always there to tempt me"]paris baguette[/annotation] and buying a slice of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  Killian Court to join a recording for a music video, in preparation for MIT ... time in over a year that I have been able to sing with people, in person ... time in over a year where I've been able to make eye contact with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... , connects sounds to colors, rather than symbols. Imagining a sound brings to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... customers around me, but not to me. I can’t help being a 5’3” young-looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in ... do we have an opportunity to use it in a sentence.) You can either have ... and is around to answer your questions as well, or a seminar, in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... . Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... Busy With Things But Not Really. which is kind of a bad place to be ... . i don't have a family to celebrate thanksgiving with, which i guess

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  extensive to fix in time. It didn't matter though. 2.007 was a trial by fire in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... went to a sound check at 4:30ish for the song I actually led and put

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  how old you are, this can equate to a whole lot of sneezes you have ... . About 20% of people have obtained an injury due to a sneeze. The angle of ... managed to hit my head exactly into the corner of a granite countertop. Head

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... listened to the MIT startup mDoc, a digital health company that focuses on ... a personalized plan to help you optimize your health based on your own

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016