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• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I ... me through the break-up, which I'm really grateful for. [caption id ... -care habits I picked up near the end of January stuck—I'm running and working

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it ... a four dollar disposable grill that we would end up never using. we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  runner up had only ~5,000XP. I put in about two and a half hours and go to sleep. Final XP: 2637XP Day 1: I wake up to a notification that I’ve lost ... before starting this endeavor. Soto had seemingly stayed up hours later

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... .  Hour 14 I sleep for a few hours, waking up after we’ve crossed into Ohio ... , there will be at least one loud crying baby. Hour 17 I wake up again to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something ... Let go of grudges. Don't let bad-feelings build up.Begin your day with a ... canCheck up on people you haven't heard from in a whileDon't hold off

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet, one day in a December, an email showed up in my inbox from the Game Lab ... about right now, but to hype up my future posts: I'm working on one about

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  bed onto the tile floor...and it survived with nary a banged-up battery ... Engineering and Computer Science) when someone picked up my computer and walked ... advice on the Internet and ended up bricking it, and then had to go to MIT

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want ... weeks, as the semester has built up, the value of checking up on people

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  (granted, my sleep schedule is messed up enough that I classify 11 AM as ... a pretty good job at. ...Better than Petey, who straight up looks ... her before the dog barks and wakes her up. I thought that was kind of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  two weeks of class at mit doesn't mean you get to catch up on the stuff you missed for two weeks. that workload you were keeping up with side by ... , now. to the point where you can't even see where it went. catching up

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... made up of three adjacent “towers” smushed together. There are 10 floors ... end of the building, then walk up back to the same level. For my FPOP

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  can spend July buffing up your technical skills in calculus. You can ... implement this is up to you alone, and your implementation changes over time ... into the depressing habit of staying up unnaturally late to take

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  much my childhood! I went to all the book premiers and dressed up as a ... up by the light of The Alchemist. Hacks are great, and I should pay ... caught up in racing to get all my work done this sophomore fall that for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  math teachers, you should consider signing up; if you're a student or a ... they consider signing up. If you're not an American any-of-these, you can ... . No special setup is required. It takes less than one minute to sign up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my ... software I could find that allowed both reversing a video and speeding it up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  . AWESOME. Let me back up a bit. See, back before dubsmash and the Doge meme ... .) In a weird convergence of universes, I ended up teaching a class that Ceri TA'd and Yuliya took, and we all ended up making episodes for season 3

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  different places and experimenting with how much I opened up before I found a ... trans community-searching easier, we've started up a Facebook group for ... @MIT will be having Gender Chat Teatime. Show up to talk about gender and meet

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  were making up words to sound cute. But apparently blustery means ... time at the house, I've gotten the chance to catch up with my fraternity brothers on how they're doing and what they're up to. That got me thinking

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  - Claire L. '17 - when she brought up that there were ceramics classes offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the ... Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ... UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... up with Koach, a punching bag that provides feedback about a boxer

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014