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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... classes, I’m a lab assistant for 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning, and ... , went to a wrapup meeting on Saturday evening, hanged out with friends on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A point to clarify

  

  for a flimsy reason of short-term convenience like it being easier to move your stuff within a dorm than between dorms. Thanks to a lot of ... In response to my last entry, Drew asked: "So, how important is it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a ... everyone else I know does keep up. Friend: Your UROP advisor is a genius. Me: Yea, I know that. She's an MIT professor. Friend: No, she's a GENIUS. Me

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  to college in the fall and can sleep soundly. But making a choice is a little harder for your situation. You may be overwhelmed thinking about prices, distance from home, community, and/or ability to perform

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  from a corner where the wall is painted black to a corner underneath my ... conferences. I had a thermo pset and an essay to work on the night I found out ... nearly everyone at AWP, I hadn’t been to a conference, writing-centric or

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  When I was in kindergarten, I wanted to be a doctor. The summer before my senior year of college, I wanted to be a doctor. Are these two ... was a Doogie Howser fan. I used to want to save lives by performing

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... , stupid frosh to make bad decisions. I've been sticking to a relatively ... instead of giving up extra hours of sleep to finish up a pset. I go into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... 'm sure to have a lot to blog about, but until then, I leave you with this ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  get no important results!! If this sounds fun to you, you should do a ... . What I like to do is just google something I’m interested in and find a ... you be willing to find a time to meet and talk about what you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  A few weekends back, I went to EnergyHack, ran a half-marathon, and ... hours? We listened to the keynotes — one by a startup making smart ... was to craft an advertising schema for a company which was in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  refreshing alternative to corporate Starbucks. A little later, we went rock ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A Little Princess. Afterwards, we went to a hilarious improv show and hung

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... 't believe it's happening, sometimes, now. When we returned to East Campus in a ... There are some things that only make sense to you once you're living

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my ... policies that expect students to conform to a certain mold of normalcy. ii

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  of breaking recipes down into simpler steps to make it seem a little ... I'm cooking works a lot better than trying to do things from a ... how to become a kitchen god. [caption id="attachment_74200" align

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... plastic bags to do this? 2) A Bicycle Trailer -- A previous D-Lab student ... market or bricks to a building site? 3) Bamboo Matchsticks -- Bamboo

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... I spent the morning in a café, working. I planned to get things done

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  , bureaucracy, and litigation. A trip to the department of medical records proved ... forth some serious thought, and decided to give it a genuine try. The ... live in the dorm assigned to you, a permanent room will be assigned once

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather ... assignment was to carry a two-pound payload (distributed between four blocks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... was able to get on the T, miss a stop, get off at the wrong stop as much

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the ... Shop training, they actually teach you how to make a neat little flash ... machine that you can use to make some precise cuts into a piece by using xyz

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012