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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  prone to ants. 9:43 AM: Finding tupperware to put sugar in. 9:45 AM: Wonder vaguely why anyone would be awake now, especially to put sugar in ... will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  house's communal tea drawer. When I arrived in the Front Room to find a ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to ... used a ladder to get in and out of bed. Rather than the conventional four

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a ... believed in me thought I wasn’t supposed to be a scientist. I am twenty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  basement of an entry in Senior House, eventually moving to a studio in the ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be sixteen when I discovered a very large, very live spider challenging me to a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... efforts exist. It hits a little different to meet someone here in Boston ... with my friend Tom to meet some of our former teachers. It’s been a while

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

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  been the best skill I learned in college. To acquire it, join a student ... find your favorite UROP too, but it is also ok to defer to a convenient ... advantages of going to a diverse place like MIT is that you will find plenty of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of ... volunteer or play sports. It then uses an algorithm to give users a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  Camille was very nervous when she applied for EA to MIT in 2018. "What if I don't get in?" "Am I good enough?" (That is a question we all ... tried to be a supportive parent, so I answered her concerns with "It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  from top to bottom. His body had become a canvas in which he could ... snap on your way to a party, ending in a hug when heading home, ending in ... together in a world trying to pull us apart. Hold these things close to you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Coping With Anxiety What is anxiety? What is panic? Definitions? Confusion? FINALS?! Cats.

  

  . If you are not in a safe space, try to find one. Whether it is your ... tattoos, too. I find it extremely grounding to sit in my room with a book of ... Together - A conglomeration of all the resources that MIT has to offer in one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 6, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  lived in this room for a semester before moving to ET."]Epsilon Theta ... hanging a bicycle using the fridge as a prop to get it up in the air." They ... this room a nice place to live in, and all these hours of memories and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  't know how to run a company, but he also really lucked out in that it seems ... , to that weird, weird group of people. After finding out that my name ... saying that I am by no means and expert in anything related to business

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  ’m from, or what I’m interested in. I’ve done it so much I find it hard to ... myself to being gay, though, until my senior year. I was in a relationship ... to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• 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…

  

  pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math ... maybe a dog ironically named Kitty. 6. If I wanted to, I was in a good ... out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and

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

  ten reflections on mit

  

  time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like ... within a mile of MIT. And while there’s much more to explore (down in

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... . Now back to finding out that I would be a blogger. The realization hit ... wanted to talk about was finding a community where I was surrounded by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  follow the same logic to find that the system in three variables has a ... triangles can always be further distributed in discrete chunks to form a ... piece A—to the square S in order to create a supershape M. We can add the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... friend, to hating this fucking place and still somehow finding a kind of ... being unafraid to be a fool in public with me. It’s been a good run here

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... ! It only applies to people who live in dining halls, though, and it's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  incredibly cool feature that you may find out about in several months, only to ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011