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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... afternoon: a pulsar class for parents, and a pulsar class for middle school kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  numeracy - trigonometry, for example - is absurdly old. Haven't you ever ... requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  for the meeting, however, so we stopped by the side of the road to look around one of the tent cities and wait for our friends from last night ... 've ever experienced, save for surviving Mt. Fuji and flying an airplane

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... . Can I get credit for those classes and 'bypass' them? My teacher says if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  recommend applying for next year if/when they run the program again) and about the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... , collapse in my chair, and crochet for hours. I finished my first big project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something ... time, I hadn't even passed 6.101 (Fundamentals of Programming), for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  right now," Luca said when we went in earlier today for lunch. Grace and ... station, macarons in hand. I've been yearning for the Le Creuset Valentines cookware set for weeks now. Something about heart-shaped pots and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  focus. It's just that when I step back for a second, I realize that I ... are particularly out of place for my life now. It’s just that the ... ="all that introspecting when writing college essays has to count for something

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  -brain freshman year me decided that it was completely okay for me to ignore the ... essential. the first few months form the basis for the rest of your experience ... ability to do any of these things. you have to make time for your partner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  It's April. I’ve been on campus for close to two months now. It ... out the [annotation note="curse my room for having such a good view ... , though! Just today it was like [annotation note="24 celsius for the normal

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  ran for the next week or so and then stopped because it was allergy ... day after not running for a while, I shocked myself by running my first ... waited for the right day, and in the middle of a snowstorm in early May

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  radomes (short for "radar dome") are actually just fibreglass shells, built ... around the world as well as for radio astronomy. With the power turned off ... help them reach their destination. For a long time, the Radio Society

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so ... it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  forth along a one-mile stretch of road every summer for four years. But ... storage is by renting a storage space at U-Haul for the summer and then ... the boxes for them. MIT dorms also offer a storage plan that covers up

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you that are winter-naive (like myself), there’s hope. And for those of you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  beaver, just like (and for the same reasons as) ours. Recently, Daphne ... they can register their schools for the exam. If you're an American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... me happy When dining has my favorite muffins for breakfast Waking up in time for breakfast Naked brunch Regular brunch Sushi in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016