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• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  mechanics, is two hours long; reading those posts gets me through the rapid ... the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... mediocre cooking supplies, which was slightly disappointing seeing as the listing said it had a kitchen. Secondly, we knew the bathrooms were shared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... a Santa Claus. Supposedly one of the most reprinted newspaper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  . I like their songs because they’re lyrically strong. Here’s the second chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS ... share with you. First things first: as you may know, the foundation of the MIT education is the GIRs (our core curriculum), atop which you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   Commencement. Two months ago. Wow, where does the time go? Summer's almost over

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

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational ... and resources outside the classroom. It is the “21st century

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

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

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably ... Analysis homework contained only four distinct numbers in the statement of its fourteen problems. The numbers were 0,1, -1, and 2. Analysis

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  you will need to be able to pick your seat. I warn you that all of the good seats are extremely coveted and the only way you can guarantee ... Weighing the Pros/Cons I'm going to use a couple of initialisms here so that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up. I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... involvement in international development @ MIT. Enjoy! In the grind of the ... the college campus (hello Boston!). Yet, one of the most rewarding

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  the (perhaps illogical) assumption that the guy would let go. So, I ... to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point, gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  It seems as though the more work one has, the more time one finds to blog. Some of my most prolific blogging streaks are when I'm actually the ... 're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008