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• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  trouble and for the past three and a half years, I missed opportunities to ... about how I was faster. 80wpm!!! Throughout middle school, I was a proud ... . Math Competition X that I never made the cut off for. Oh and Math

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... , you can inadvertently turn one of your sources into a drain for another

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  put up with me, and it would be an even bigger miracle for a full ... looking for pictures to use in a Father's Day card) and came across pictures ... Know I Learned in Kindergarten," which has become a standard for coming

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  , you get the point. Freshman fall is meant to be a reality check for ... school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... 't just for learning technical things or prepping for jobs; it's also a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  watching a sunset walking across one. So, if you’re looking for that kind of ... means that it is simultaneously a bridge for pedestrians, cars, and the ... closed to construction, and for a long time all you could see as you rode

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  gel thickening agent. I’ve been at MIT for a while: this is my sixth ... answering the frosh open the circle and we divvy up the cards for a game of BS ... for print, my first time (at least since college apps) working under a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up ... me to talk about and has affected me for a while. My mental health ... important exam or a first date. It's this persistent worry that something is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  something like “exhausting and overwhelming, but fun.” I don’t think that’s a ... of frats hosted a boat cruise, where my friend took me along as his date. We were standing outside, staring into the surroundings. “It’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  VEDA In which I try to vlog every day in April

  

  Yo Self || VEDA #11 – toy stores, Central Park wandering, A Gentleman ... VEDA (Vlog Every Day in April) is a thing in some parts of the YouTube community, and it's basically a month when a bunch of (usually smaller

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 24, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Bezel is a tradition (I'm not sure for how long, but at least since the ... corners on campus for three hours in a room with one piece of paper and a ... Comm 2020 loves you!!) and a student-facing-business-person-that-works-for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  format for a haiku. Most of its poems are 2 to 5 lines long, and each line ... haikus for the haikubot I have so many questions for this bot, if it was a ... gay heart the gay heart is a device for confucious to tell haikus that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  that I could afford to fuck up in math, I could relax for a whole year of ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... failing, that I was on track for a C (which I would hide behind P/NR), but

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  which I am not grateful for the privilege of having been a part of that ... Sadoway a run for his money in terms of pure awesomeness -- began emerging ... ." Over the years I've been given a lot of credit for my work on pioneering

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the ... question now is: was a baby ever delivered using this apparatus? For better ... Nobel thing) asked for a volunteer who had a watch. I had a watch. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  exploration. Armed with an all-powerful MBTA Pass (with unlimited trips for a ... a coffee at the Thinking Cup, an adorable coffee shop for the tired ... ,” Faneuil Hall (with Quincy Market), Downtown Boston’s prime location for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  but air? And then you kinda have to wobble for a bit before you lower ... . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed. If this was a movie, this would be the cue for me to cry. And with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  excruciating little knots. Anticipation. Dread. A pang of regret for having been ... time, all just to see MIT's decision, makes for a dramatic story, but it ... these words in an abstract for one of his papers: "When a man sits with a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  elsewhere, if only for a few hours; one where a weekend trip with friends ... myself. It's not a new sensation. But after all these years, I still don't have any advice, just a feeling. A long, cold plummet into guilt and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  a bit of personal direction. the moment i realized it was okay for my ... to sit my butt down on her linoleum floor for a few hours to help her ... grand visions for senioritis in college. i would go out all the time! do

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015