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• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  , and I’ll probably try to continue playing chess once in a while, too ... algorithms or Hollow Knight in the course of a few weeks. Nowadays, it’s mostly ... interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  in other dorms are "crowded" into triples. This is generally not a good ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note="also known as course 6-3"]computer science.[/annotation] There is a difference ... learned about [annotation note="This was in 6.006, which is Intro to

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by ... apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  a sweatshirt. All I’m missing is some pants, maybe some shoes. But ... , a sweatshirt, a hat—heck, even my non-existent MIT shoes—inspires in ... passed without incident. Sitting in a chair in the student center lobby, I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  this is going? Pride goeth before the fall. Last week, I...I...I have a ... MORE sick. I went to the doctor willingly, which is a rare thing for me ... class walked in with asthmatic pneumonia after missing over a weeks worth

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  The Craziest 3 Days of Soccer Ever broken records, halloween practice, and senior day!

  

  lift in our temporary Varsity Weight Room. There is a special weight room ... tie. We also end it ranked #3 in the nation (which is also a program ... dad sums up Meagan pretty well: “Dang, that Meagan is a problem

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's my blog and I get to put words in your mouth if I want. That's a good ... minutes or so, I was convinced that he not only is the Best Advisor In the Universe but also might possibly be a magician, because: In 10 minutes he

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew ... knights from London to Bristol, where I currently reside in a castle. I ... projects. It’s a relief that I’m staying with someone I know, since this is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  platform is the main source of learning. For others, it allows a blend of ... to Biology), MITx software registered 3,000 clicks in a given day on ... classroom has just begun, but the movement is growing fast. In the future, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When I Grow Up In which I contemplate growing up and what I am going to do with my…

  

  up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will try to." We ... is the uncertainty? Polymers, believe it or not, involve a lot of ... school and polymers and cats.   There's a great future in plastics

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Brahms & Tomorrowland (2015)

  

  . Muscle memory is a strange and beautiful thing, and in those seven days ... follows. But it is remarkable that we live in a universe where the future ... Recently, I've been spending a lot of time in the Lewis Music Library

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 30, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  that is required of all students (including those admitted or deferred in ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... .
 Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is the best place

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  SnowDays while you're waiting for decisions

  

  SnowDays is a snowflake maker, and I think by far the best one. I ... my recent snowflakes, which is so big I had to convert the GIF to a ... work? The answer has to do with winding numbers. A cut is a closed curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Man, but also the producer of this year's Next Haunt! There is a lot ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... planning for this. Our REX event is primarily a mini-Haunt, where we recycle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre ... days as a frosh by taking pictures of people building things in the East ... about safety! There are a lot of other really cool projects going on in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... , so when I think of Valenzuela, I imagine MacArthur. A road that is, for ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Mellon is a popular choice for CS, and that Case Western (in my home state ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  in the pictures. As is MIT tradition, the ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... yet here it is, detached from its home of decades. x In

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018