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• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2021 another year another book post

  

  last year's theme of having pieces from MIT alumni, this one is from ... This is my third year doing this; see the 2019 post and the 2020 post ... supernatural objects. This is, once again, the token "favorite thing from SCP I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  app is okay, but you should refactor this code into its own class and move it to a different file. No one says, this is a very personal blog ... criticism is negative, when the thing I made wasn't well-received. This year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years old. (Sidenote: a fun consequence of having a Halloween birthday is ... . 5 in G) then listened to the piece. A suite is a collection of dances

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Philadelphia with my beloved high school friend Shana. See how excited she is ... there, we wandered to the Reading Terminal Market, which is apparently ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic ... “teaching is hard! The last time I taught someone anything was showing my ... Anthrax[/caption] Also known as rising action. ‘Temptations’ is a bit

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  that there are fewer women. But the interesting effect of being at MIT is that I sometimes forget what the outside world is like. Of course I know ... one exception to these starkly male environments has been MIT. From my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... astrophysicists of our time (whether or not most of them read it is another question

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  are easily reached by bike, which is The MIT Student's preferred mode of ... style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  MIT is still on break. January here is a free-for-all of independent ... Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... stores on Massachusetts Avenue north of MIT instead of at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  ominously call names to the office. MIT is like the craziest, bumpiest ... Laura, but the tallest, fastest, and most amazing roller coaster is an MIT ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  parents try to feed me coconuts, but this is of questionable veracity. My ... house. Is it important to this story that I tell you my neighbor Ed used ... of my life at. I hadn’t committed yet and was still torn between MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... , where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... scene follows some cliche plot line or a math problem where everything is

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  right now -- because zoom is, ah, revolting. It’s no one’s fault perhaps but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... . Because reading is great but I haven’t been writing, not as much as I’d like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updates i'm still here.

  

  family for going three weeks before replying to a text. ‘School is crazy!’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it means to be an MIT student. ‘My classes this past semester were brutal

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  most important of which is the Great Court. That's the place I head ... ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a ... alive as we put it together and that part, too, is like your applications

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  because she is lucky and I am not, and since New York is only a 4-hour Fung ... America and Bill O'Reilly is 'Papa Bear,' does that mean HE'S the number one ... , my floor is amazing, so one day when I was not home they decided to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  So this is a big week. This, is not only production week for photography class (exhibitions for final projects are next monday), which is ... end is nigh!) with Relativity. Which was today. So 8.033 which is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . MIT is a very exciting place. For most of the things you'll be ... , and people doing stuff, is part of what makes MIT wonderful, but it ... communities at MIT that I fit into, but another reason was that I never took

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  night I watched the MIT Monologues, formerly known as the Vagina ... about life as not-a-cis-man. All pieces were written by members of the MIT community, for members of the MIT community. This was my first year watching

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  ) Second of all, perfection is useless. Of course MIT only admits students ... can do is try to show MIT who you are through your interviews and essays ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005