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• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  cuts and scratches littering my hands fueled my trek to campus. Today was the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work ... , but the fundamental problems with my robot, Flipstream, were too

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  ). Pick my battles. I was incredibly argumentative as a child, and I learned ... hill you want to die on. On a similar note, every word out of my mouth ... whether or not to wash my hair at night (believe it or not, I’ve once

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   ... post. But now I'm going through these photos and it's making me miss my ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... established myself somewhat now. In my UROP, which I’ve had for 5 semesters now ... community--I recently ended my term as president of the Ethiopian

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes ... semester where i am genuinely excited about all of my classes! i'm in: 14

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  my final semester without taking any classes elsewhere. I signed up for ... -minute remedy. From the course description I judged it right up my alley, my cup ... architecture or urbanism class. And it is my cup of tea. So I spend every Monday

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the tunnels instead of freezing and trying to make my way through snow-covered sidewalks. I had yet to master the tunnels and navigate through them on my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Book Fair here) My 20th birthday was pretty perfect. It started an hour before midnight with one of my friends encouraging me to get pumped about ... developments, I will soon gain access to the front of my cerebral cortex, where

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value ... little over a year ago, I visited my City Councilor during his weekly

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... sport and can’t imagine my MIT years without it. I am sharing my story ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... beginning of the transformative conquering of my sole remaining fear, writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly, reorganized my room. After attending a synthfest in the Media Lab a while ago ... to play with), I realized how much I missed my synths from back home

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my laptop case and charger but forgot my laptop. When I came back, I forgot my suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  Guten Tag from Deutschland! I’m writing this from my dorm room at the University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... -week language course. We’ve one class session so far. I can now say: “Hello, my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  finished my last final Thursday after two not-so-fun back to back 18.03 and 18.02 exams. Sitting in front of my desk at 4:57pm, I realized that ... garlic bread that had recently been introduced to my stomach said no

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a paper draft to my research advisor tonight, I e-mailed a paper to my music ... made me laugh over the past few days. Brace yourself for insight into my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... circuit boards are really cool and I'm learning tons about them from my UROP ... Laboratory and do Real Science with my Real Hands, and that's actually exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  , and rapidly decreasing) degree, and my composure will vary drastically ... ), but it does get frustrating very quickly in new settings. When I took my ... talking to myself than I did talking to other people. My conversations with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  I’m very lucky in that my family lives in central Pennsylvania, which ... it’s for something important, like, recently, picking my little brother ... wonderful, because my mom packed me a lunch, but the trip there was less

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013