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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  , first time driving in Boston, first time picking up my own rental car. I ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... I was in looked like that, all wood paneling and a bit of dark gothic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... of judgement, and I have taken advantage of that trust. While I can ... .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  attending one of the most advanced universities in the world. I can’t tell you ... away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  sitting in my room reading the problems. I ignored this and walked along ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... themselves are in many ways responsibilities - I am thoughtful and care deeply

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo ... job opportunity that I had always been looking for (a job in an entrepreneurial environment, a job in a consumer electronics company, a job where I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... thoroughly convinced that I can improve them with practice. The lab class, 6 ... -ops"]collectives[/annotation], and it requires thinking about the humanities in a way that I've never

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  's how I'm planning on approaching it anyway. In other news, I've fallen ... moment. In the past three days, three separate experiments have gone wrong at lab. The procedures involved in these experiments (fluorescent in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on adding more of these... i use gcal constantly, in stark contrast to the ... clicking and dragging it forwards in time, whereas previously i would have

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... ’s-eye pictures of it, which I was unable to get as I am not, in fact, a bird (as ... circumstances, I figured wandering around in order to get a better shot was

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  when it can do good. I'm also not implying "high-achieving good ... belt all at once. I straight-up failed a class in my fall semester that ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... accompanying sights beckon my eyes to rest. Each day that I work in Cambridge ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who ... the years, I’ve learned an invaluable lesson: While you can’ ... believe that your dream can become a reality. I don’t know what Zahir

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  long (5 hr) incubation, so I can mix the DNA in with the cells, then go ... 's mostly what I do in the summer. Oh, and Adam and I went to Friendly's with ... this week in addition to writing the paper and making figures; mostly I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  both undergrad and grad like 4.440. I learn Rhinoscript so I can code ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  . there’s one short scene i want to talk about in this post; it is probably ... ; let me give some more legitimate examples: i played piano briefly in ... i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  SolidWorks file looked like As you can see, I added some footsteps to ... of the final run of the paper weight so you can see the lathe in action ... " in diameter (TINY!). I popped the part into the vice, set my zero at

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  to. I hope that this becomes a living document that people can add to ... in their dorm rooms. I have a vinyl cutter in my GRA apartment—I think ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022