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• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  ’ve been better. II. Growing up in a place where I did not have many opportunities to pursue the things I was interested in, I feel very grateful to be ... to do: catch up. I needed to bridge the gap that was created by a

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to take notes on and Café 4 for coffee. I find a seat in the back row ... ’m in a library. I find a seat on the second floor overlooking the Charles ... , though I’ve gotten more used to it. Problem sets in 6.005 happen in two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... close to stop. 21M.051: Fundamentals of Music A long, long time ago, in

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  Harvard to learn Swedish (with the sole intention of using it find a ... is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... to babble incoherently and to hilarious effect. It's a useful skill

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  not have three thousand dollars or whatever to pay the RIAA in a ... in a few ways. First, I've been known to come in before class to get ... to getting a debit or credit card in college when we have TechCash? Oh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  and building a quick assembly bridge for use in developing countries ... related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Want A Radio Show!!! about Christmas Music Year Round...or Midwest Pizza...

  

  I want a radio show!! This summer, I'm going to be in Boston ... , I don't just listen to it in November, or in October-- I am a FIRM ... , like, ok. I think I had a few songs in mind but it would lowk be work to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • April 29, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  the same day as the dreaded first 8.01 exam in addition to a 3.091 quiz ... ! Lots of 'em. I talk to a few of the representatives, and I find out that ... . I haven't even eaten lunch, but I find some chips and a banana to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  to the word limit for the essays, a lot of space is left over in the ... starting to regret not putting it in a more noticeable place, but it was ... this certainly does not have to be in the form of a trophy. You should

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Banditos Misteriosos Everybody enjoys a ghoul dance party!

  

  terrible puns…) 5. Finally, A big shout-out to DJ JR, for all his help in ... , ready to watch some ghosts. We chilled in the destination location for a ... A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  what does the end of high school mean, for you? the days pass so slow; the months pass so fast

  

  to whom it may concern: two years ago, you pushed open a metal gate in a fence that led to a parking lot. you stumble a bit stepping down ... pushed open a metal gate in a fence on the way to your high school

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • June 10, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  could still find comfort in that we *knew* we were going to college. In ... art style is very unique, and although it took a bit of getting used to ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  snow to go anymore in Boston. The snowbanks beside the roads are 3-4 feet ... . You can find the correspondence here . (Hat tip to the MIT news twitter ... archives). I've got to imagine that this was a serious facepalm moment for

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nightswimming

  

  quite useful to carry a flashlight and multitool at MIT - it's a bit of a ... denizens, is that we get up to such interesting things! For example, a few nights ago, we went on a skinny-dipping expedition to the famous Walden

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  Morgan (the professor in charge of our lab), it's my job to prepare a short ... , and likes to see that its buckets of money are being used to find cures ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  approach would be to just use a random number generator on each square meter ... ’t happen in real life. to fix this, we can connect the grid points using ... far future; reading how the world was going to change in a thousand

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... functioning buildings, but also designing and constructing places in such a way

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  looked at my page, but I have no one around to help me make a new banner ... gorgeous I really am in real life. As you probably know, it's kind of hard to ... collectively as my family) have all been very busy lately. So I decided to pull a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  to find a pic of me dancing on a table in center suite but here we are ... didn't enjoy not being in a live classroom environment and started to ... looked like a whole different person back then. given how much i used to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020