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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal ... sounds like a fire alarm, which causes me to wake up in a panic but is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  54 units (this is a new-ish change, before it used to be 48). A lot of ... California to a different state to start school. Except, this year was in the ... yet nothing compares to living in a three-person apartment in the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... burnout. They seem to lose their motivation and desire after a few years in ... to a sense of motionlessness, that progress for women in the workplace

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  album and I wanted to know more. I made a One Direction in addition to my ... Recently, I've stopped listening to new music releases in favor of ... Direction - my biggest regret in life is declining tickets to see them in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 vision new year's resolutions

  

  service. Exercise more. In 2018, I went to the gym three times a week. I ... to find a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) where I get ... empowering to do so as a woman in STEM, but nowadays I also feel guilty about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  A lot of you have written me to tell me you've voted, and it ... think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I'm not dead yet :) It's definitely possible for a vegan to survive! It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  space to be a problem on 5th East, and I'd say we use the kitchen more ... Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  %, you got to wonder. Or, should we use a supplementary essay to explain ... asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really ... used to find out more about you, how you think, what is important to you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are unacquainted, a lathe and a mill are tools used to machine metal ... ? Later in the semester we'll be using these to create aluminum molds to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  involve a lot of sitting. I don’t know how my body would react to using the ... is more trouble than it's worth. I still plan to own a car later in ... in a place where only driving made any sense. Now that I've been

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime ... excited and impressed to find Killian Court decorated with beautiful banners

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  Colorado and Oregon, to a live-in internship in Santa Cruz, CA, to hostel ... through a thick nostalgia to get myself in my car, start the ignition, ease ... printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  list recently offered a free trip to Mexico, in exchange for a week of ... abroad to teach a STEM subject usually in their discipline. What’s cool ... both), and they range from an HIV/AIDS class in South Africa to a Spanish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  reevaluating everything we had done in high school to try to find that *one ... comparing ourselves to others we knew of that got in. We just thought a lot ... up to only a small sample of MIT experiences, painted a beautifully

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and ... possible to ignite inflation in a hypothetical laboratory, thereby creating a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  finish the pre-lab. *A rule in French House: if you bake using house ... CAKE! Me: Um...are you going to be in here for a while? Like...for the ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  helpful to you. We had a great crowd in Miami. The Miami meeting was one ... Yesterday, I held a Central Meeting in South Miami, Florida. We were ... expected, meaning a number of folks had to stand. To those of you who stood

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  which have a very good time-in to usefulness-out ratio, AND has the ... equilibrium and how to cope with that.” In a similar vein, JLab is “systems aren ... written exam. I was able to predict questions I’d be asked in my Q&A

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a ... completely flipped our view of reading and writing. In preparation for a ... .  Clumped blue [annotation note="If you’ve ever used a hot glue gun before

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019