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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  little idea on how to tackle a certain problem; you will walk out of ... 't get paid, but one day, you'll get paid and not have much time to learn ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... appear from year to year (such as "IHTFP" and the ivy leaves), while others

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs ... importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I'm about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with ... Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  high school. Take some time to smell the roses. Not the same few ... outreach to students for the season. After this, I'll head back to the office ... travel season, we'll prepare to read your applications. I suspect we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  , there was just something about coding that clicked with me. IDK how to ... community's amazing, and I got to learn how to write a scientific research ... that I'm not good enough to make the most out of it. If I really hated 6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  further consideration, I have decided not to quit my day job ... worse job? Wouldn't that be better? Today, I am proud to introduce to you ... 're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  science league competitions. This was sad, but not too sad. I used to get ... not at the same level as the calc-based physics he wanted me to do. (I ... exam that I vaguely understood- but I had no idea how I was supposed to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  "]two other people,[/annotation] and I’m really excited to see how it’ll turn ... were a bio person!” “I’m not.”"]surprised to see me there ... try, but not necessarily commit to, just because I want to try it, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness ... ," I'm pretty happy I doubled up. Saves me time not having to cross over ... Flag Campaign to demonstrate how interpersonal violence affects our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT ... in South Dakota. It is interesting to see how similar some of our ... , "why not?" A fellow Nextie and I take an Uber to the venue together, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  [annotation note="Weird how the name isn't related at all to the action, I know :P ... in person, or just how much "mathematical maturity" I need to take it ... worked with copper so far, so I'm excited to learn how to work this much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  ’m okay, this is how i’m trying to sort out my thoughts. typing words on a ... black licorice. i know how to make a lot of balloon animals and hats ... All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two ... 't worked before, in my case), and talk about logistics like how we get to ... or sleeping or not talking to each other, we were there together, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  .096: blacksmithing, and How to Make Almost Anything. I got into all but the last one. I ... pattern in myself before but only recently have I come to see it as not just ... -spring-damper system, et cetera, et cetera. I will not in fact have time to let these

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  're teaching THAT to MIDDLE SCHOOLERS?" and "how'd swing dancing go?" and "food ... talking about pulsars, I make a deal with the class. They are not allowed to ... disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  want to clarify that this is not a monolithic experience. I have a lot ... consumed) focuses on the negative things. And that’s not to say that college ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  a little self control to not literally gasp. I will stress that in my ... not only happy working with or under, but also incredibly privileged to ... who had the courage to speak out, but were silenced, or simply not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  on the 4th of July. The look of horror prompted Adam's mom to ask me ... think I said candy buckeyes, which are not ethnic so much as delicious ... monster badminton), we headed down to the Plymouth waterfront for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006