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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... post been more relevant. Now, 50 Things is a list that brings up 50

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  accredited at MIT. MIT is an ecosystem of buzzwords. “Finding the next…”, “Breakthrough in…”, MIT is discovery, invention, and innovation. We are lucky to ... by Tananya Prankprakma and Sophia Wang   This post is a love

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  Cube MIT’s new music building is best described as three featureless ... ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... ). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  covers summer, but possibly the biggest thing skewing my data is the Great ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... math at night is never fun. What I've found is that staying up late is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... the typical MIT student with a huge ego I say to Matt and Ben "Psh, I can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  upwards, almost pulling the plastic part off the metal (it is a U-Lock, even though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A ... assume the lock is supposed to go while you are riding the bike. Again

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... policy problems in general. I think what I’ve enjoyed most this month is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do things[annotation note="which, honestly, is more of a kind of savior complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  . Stingray Stingray is located in Allston, down and across the river from MIT ... of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to ... to three piercing studios around MIT. Here are my experiences from each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... how admissions is different today from when we received admit letters ... envelope, the better the news. My envelope from MIT was very big and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  group, your host is the house, rather than a particular person). You'll get to experience a small slice of life at MIT to help make your ... atmosphere of MIT had been a letdown. He had expected, he explained, weirder

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  a service project with APO. APO is "a national coed service fraternity" with service projects and fellowship events. At MIT, among other achievements, it is responsible for the Book Exchange, the Ride Board, and the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... [/caption] this is my daily commute to work. it usually takes about 5-10 minutes ... the kitchen is stocked 24/7 with chobani, cereal, and coffee - the 3 Cs

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on ... cardboard eclipse glasses. “Is that it?” “No, honey, that’s a bug. It should be on the top right.” “I don’t see it. All I see is the sun. Do you see

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap ... lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true ... , because god is it cold outside. my how fast the seasons change [carousel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022