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• Blog / Challenges

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a ... . There's even a word for the small droplets that fall through an open ... dry, but not quite rain. Tagalog does not have a word for this kind of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  . Apparently the museum is a popular destination for MIT alums, because the museum's function coordinator asked for our permission to use a photo from ... is working for Aurora Flight Sciences, an aerospace company with a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  're here, now, carrying a Nerf gun looking for people to shoot. Worry ... . Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  ) with tape. This is a sign I made for my floor; it twinkles and stuff. I made a new floor sign for Loop #diy A video posted by Rose ... artistic, so having painted a mural is a very big deal for me. :) James H

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  help you find what you love. That’s what we’re here for. If a student ... a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  Costco for a few hours on Sunday too, which is helpful, but functionally ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... purchased for $.99. SNAP recipients get half off $10 or less of produce a day

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  responsibility when I mess up. I've found a community to lean on for support and ... me into adventures that would make for great stories in front of a ... mom is actually trying to tell me. A wave of guilt washed over me for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  coveted group for internships. As a junior applying to internships: it ... colleges way before senior fall. For a lot of juniors, applying to jobs ... ="LaTeX is a cool formatting program language that's usually used for math

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer ... The reading continues, almost non-stop here... for another ... this question:   Would a non-techie passion (like poetry, painting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  really as difficult as it felt? I found a deep appreciation for how my ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... for nap time To make this plot, I had to “jitter” the dots a bit over

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  delightful to you. Freedom! A chance to be expressive and creative in front of lots of other people! For me, this sounds like: My Worst Nightmare! A ... judge you for doing it. Dance. Try out for a sport. Audition for an a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  " was code for "depressingly early sunset." After a lot of writing and ... took for granted any other time. I took a breath. The air was crisp, and as I inhaled I felt a strand of my anxiety slip away. For a second, my

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  class, the less of a need there is for a group chat. The harder the class ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... group chats for most of my classes. These group chats are somewhat helpful

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  center offers a lottery to all students (grad or undergrad) for a chance to ... campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  decided to sacrifice the comfort of a small town for all MIT had to offer ... a sort of home, too. For me that’s the Mock Trial Team. I have ... away. That made for a four hour round trip any time I wanted to go to a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  kind enough to do a Q&A for my blog, so enjoy! ---------- Did other ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New ... As someone whose idea of Friday night fun in high school involved (a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  have had a die-hard adoration for spaceflight or aircraft since before ... or spacecraft for at least a decade. As Lulu L. '09 describes: "You ... AeroAstro department was propelled less by a love for propellers and more

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  Halloween is awesome, for a bajillion reasons. Reason 1 of 1 ... oscillators that it seemed only right to become one. For a driving force, we ... -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing is Magic And 15 minutes is all you need

  

  I have a personal blog that I write about my teenagers and I haven ... certainly isn’t because of a lack of material. I have more material than ever lately with one kid on his way to college and the other on his way to a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... day, just a couple weeks ago, after having been in committee for 4 days

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011