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• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... . Having a clean space, clean clothes, and clean sheets is very very nice and ... Take a night off every once in a while. I have [annotation note

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... tools to cut grooves, pockets, round edges, so on and so forth. A mill is ... while the drill bit (actually called an "end mill") is in the part

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  , what makes this so special? why is it the end of the world? Well in a ... thing is that this thing is so powerful and so totally unprecedented in ... the world in a variety of fashions. Theres even been injunctions filed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  and Practice. Although Lupe himself has said that CMS.S60 is not a music class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  Mechanics is a "deeper" theory of reality than classical mechanics, yet in the ... is invariant under a reversal in time? I'm sure there's an answer, they ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken Burrito for the Lab Rat’s Soul Because a personalized blog entry is just like five dollars.

  

  was a most busy and miserable day that can be summarized in one sentence ... -shelteresque pantry are now looking pretty spare, so I decided to indulge myself in a ... favorite meal from Anna's is a grilled chicken burrito, no cheese, black

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  "[In many ways, picking a college is a lot like marriage: the ... with a quote: "There is no value in life except what you choose to place ... think is) the biggest decisions in your life. Perhaps you are choosing

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  musicians in a very disconnected way, like how teenagers admire fictional ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... ’s a lot to relieve. There is something so calming about drowning out all

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  the next thing in life via the infinite corridor is the basement of the student center. This is home to a post office, dry cleaners, the ID card ... LCC board for a semester, it's become that place where I go in between

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my ... [annotation note="It's almost like a course 6 snuck in as a bio grad student and ... recognizing genius. Yes, it is a very average-looking poster. Yes, it contains

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’s probably okay. The cool thing is that I had never fenced a day in my life ... that actually accept is probably closer to 10-15%. There are a lot of ... whether I want to double major in math or be a 6-2 instead of a 6-3, and 18

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  blotting in a Metro station! (By the way, a Western blot analysis is a biological technique that helps you detect a protein and get information about ... station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... , near the Nyimba province. The travel has been somewhat tiring but it is

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... " is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  holly berry, which in hindsight is not a berry one consumes, but the ... prefer walking. There is a strangely high density of ice cream shops in ... -between.  The grass is dead in the park this winter, because in a desert we have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  know. Because "Yay! A 33 in 6.003 that I took in 38-101 before UROP!" is ... hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class ... . To me, succeeding at MIT is just a gradual process of lowering your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk ... . The truth is, like perhaps many of the 1,116 freshmen in the class of ... , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  to preface this with my opinion that i don’t think this is a ... the area, and then having a better experience, which is great. but some ... experience has been positive. i guess i lucked out, in a sense, when i have a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more ... matured in college >.< ), eat my mom's food, and sleep like 10 hours a ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  implementation of this order is still under review, its prospect has caused a lot ... eventually serve in the military or in the MIT ROTC program. MIT has a long ... Nanotechnology, is essential in our work to serve the nation and the world. MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017