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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Museum of Science Star Wars exhibit. (Here's the cool part- they'll be ... School, and a lot of my friends and I would semi-jokingly refer to us as ... "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  make ChatGPT give me a list of jokes while writing this post, but it just ... !” like five times"]ChatGPT[/annotation] and the previous version of Bard were never able to tell funny jokes (or give the correct window count of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  the lashes in half and applying them towards the ends of my eyes, which ... I’ve been breaking the monotony of quarantine and wearing pajamas all day by doing new things! I’ve wanted to try many of the things listed

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  Here’s a picture of (almost) all the paper I’ve used at MIT so far ... temporary) state of having a lot of work to do at the moment ... going through a stack of paper and talking to you about it. So fun, right

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  day in Bologna, especially after chancing upon a fellow group of ... , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian ... small canal called “Little Venice” and hidden pictorial inscriptions of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  Cognitive Sciences; specifically, he was interested in the neural basis of ... I want to tell you about a friend of mine who is on television this winter. TBS’s new reality show King of the Nerds features two people from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... page. For most MIT bloggers, that change is documented, like dozens of ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  computer the whole weekend, I was ready to take advantage of this weekend off ... was far from the most productive weekend of the term. I tried to work ... section of Singapore. I had been really guilty about not devoting enough

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown ... MIT. Most of these students were those "normal students" people always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  burning out were a universal Mocha exec experience, and part of the argument ... -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  followed with immediate mention of “troubling data” and “important decisions ... the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message: There is a good chance you’ve heard about this already, since a lot of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  , next to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (with the enviable name ... introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are ... forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was ... Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in a rush, I find it helpful to do a quick scan of the entire dining hall

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  Kazakhstan, and we thought the weather would be very pleasant at this time of ... for summer tourists"][/annotation] In addition, Qatar Airways offers a ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to UROP because you basically ARE einstein

  

  : this is not regular and I offered to be there the whole time, it was not ... validating and enjoyable part of my academic experience at MIT. At MIT, over 90% of students will participate in a UROP before graduating, making it

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 26, 2026
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of ... there was left to learn. I didn't have a good idea of what separates a junior from a senior developer. Part of that was pride, and the other part

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  , often compared to a baby duck. Here I am on my first day of school some day in middle school. Most of the time, my mom would take me to ... (especially because I never bothered to comb it). But it felt sort of goofy and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023