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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  life is [annotation note="trial and error is the best way to learn and I ... you. UROP early and often. In the life sciences at least, it's crucial ... life with a paper trail made of more than just transcripts and psets

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  .12."]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I didn't know which schools to ... !"]a life outside the lab,[/annotation] but I had no idea where they found the ... !"]scientist[/annotation] for the rest of my life. I don't know which schools to apply to in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  01 i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT, because we’re edgy and unconventional, our equivalent to a regular college’s majors are called ‘courses’. We have a…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  You guessed it, I’m finally: And because there are literally so many, so so so many blog posts that talk about the tradition of the MIT brass rat, the ring…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  Hi everyone! By now you’ve probably seen the decisions promo video, where we made a giant oven and cooked a giant pie in it. Kristen and I, and a bunch…

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  Happy CROMMMMBUS season (like christmas but.. not) On Halloween night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I’m going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and…

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe’s to do my grocery shopping. There’s two nearby, but the…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Redesigning a hall logo: 4.500 part 1 4.500 part 1

  

  4.500, Intro to Design Computing, my favorite class this semester, is a design class with a project every week. The first four projects involved using CAD software to design 2d…

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 27, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  until Regular Action if that allows you to get the rest of your life in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  ’s only been a week. Adjustments to The Adult Life were abrupt. Suddenly I ... With My Life Underclassman. I don’t know how humans managed before, 1 ... it possible to have a 1/5th life crisis? Yup. I spent most of the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically slowed down. After running at 75 mph for the past year, I barely walk at 3 ... content. I forget that I was out to optimize my purpose in life. As I spend

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  ," Day 2 - "Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017," Day 3 - "College Life Changes

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  On Wednesday evening, right before the first 8.01 midterm, I had an inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school activity that had drastically more…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  in real life. "I love your car," I told her, "I'm very jealous." "You

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  i woke up naturally at 9am this morning to a sunny day, feeling rested, and realizing i have no commitments. so i went into boston to find a haircut at…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  life. Are you hiding something from us?” “I hear it’s really dirty…but I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... are the most powerful incentives, are what makes life worth living. also

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical ... they recognize that student life can be hectic and draining and are

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015