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• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  ! – Treading water is hard, especially in a pool that’s only four feet deep. Long ... means…what even is a kilometer?"]length of a football field ... ’t completed the swim requirement yet, you could take a 4 hour course in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit ... happened. To make matters worse, this was around the same time that a girl in ... 'd be the one to make the news in that manner, not her. It was just a very

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... created a bicycle ambulance for use in rural areas. Can we modify this

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

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... in this cute little device. Then fold them into a meringue ... exploded in the oven. Luckily, we took a page from the book of "lifestylist

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello, Goodbye, Hello!

  

  the people on this page! This is actually a group shot of Burton 1 - my ... last August … wondering how I felt a year ago … so somehow I ended up ... cover … and flipped to the Burton-Conner page (which is where I live now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  in the Stud, I realized that there were a lot of cool things on the ... a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I ... 's even a Wikipedia article about it! It's how most MIT students, in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  ”, and the run-time is over a half an hour in total. Who knows? Life is too ... guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months ... sliver of the moon in your eyes?”. Aw, that’s pretty cute. Maybe it’ll be a

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  , "Oh, this is a technical challenge" -- but being in the space of the ... i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a ... telling me to look up. The moon, jupiter, and venus in a right triangle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to ... in a few hours. (I didn’t, the milk works) [caption id ... . Basically, anything within reason. The default fight is a wrestling match

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  track one's progress in a leadership program, when you can't really assign ... .</font size=1> Our support crew took the three-hour ride in a few crowded ... 't matter, they're just yelling for me to GO!-flashes by in a second. What

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... were being developed in the Boston/Cambridge area. There’s a cameo from ... showed these complex mathematical concepts in a way that kids could still

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... access to food in the past year Personally this past semester I've used a ... .  Through a no-questions-asked s^3 meeting, one is provided a number of swipes

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an ... , lastly (3) I feel like Christina's site is a pretty good representation of ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in general is a challenge, because you’re knowingly putting yourself in a ... waiting to go in for my recitation one morning when I overheard a tour guide

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  What Was in the Briefcase. No luck. My best guess is still that it had ... climactic scene of Helvetica, in which some typographer guy opens a 1950s ... always prevail in the end. After a night of abortive attempts, I was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... -hello? Cheerful guy at the front desk: Ma'am, there is a taxi waiting for you. Me ... turns out, CMI airport in Champaign, Illinois, is not very big, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  in? Is life over for them? Are they destined to a life of destitution ... look for a couple of different things. One thing is we're looking for a ... . But everybody, whether you're majoring in astronomy or anthropology, is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022