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Colors
What if you lived in a world that was entirely grayscale? Without any color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend everything around you is grayscale. All of your...
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Questions for 2016
I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of...
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When I Grow Up
When do we actually grow up? Did I automatically become an adult when I turned 18, or was it when I had my Bat Mitzvah at 12? "When I grow up" is often completed with a "I want to be" or a "I will...
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Snow!
I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak approached Boston South Station, I spotted snow on the tracks! As I stepped off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I...
View ArticleA brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics
If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then you spent last Friday and Saturday eagerly awaiting the unveiling of the 2016 FIRST Robotics FRC game at the annual kickoff event....
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Winter
Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge. While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from California, we were ecstatic and decided to go grab our...
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Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food
In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding and moving to an apartment together with my boyfriend Cory and our close Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a...
View ArticleYour February Notes and Updates Form
Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some important info below. First, though, relax! This is easy, and...
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The Stars Look Very Different Today
When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades, I spent three weeks at nerd camp. I was what multiple exes have described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I...
View ArticleJanuary Blues
Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this...
View ArticleMy “Normal” High School
Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At...
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Beacon Hill in the Fall
.condensedlines{line-height: 10%;font-size: 20%;} Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of campus....
View ArticleTeaching Splash (and Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome)
Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). They are also passionate about education. We bonded over several different...
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readmission
I've been gone for a while, but I'm coming back! Withdrawing from MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one...
View ArticleAllegiance
1. Labels The number of double takes and comments I’ve gotten this month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang...
View ArticleWhat an “OX” means on a transcript
So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A - “Exceptionally good performance…” B - “Good performance…” C - “Adequate...
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StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs
IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT, because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people...
View ArticleHow I Spent IAP
I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include: that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate...
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Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19)
This blog post is by Mike W. ‘19, epic speed integrator and Random Hall freshman physicist. If you enjoy integrating you can try out some problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s...
View Article3 weeks in northern Italy
I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my...
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