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• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  we were asked to do it four days before the event, so we had three days ... ="attachment_116443" align="aligncenter" width="456"] when afterthoughts burn and the ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.” – Ralph Merkle, nanotechnology researcher and cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How good are the academics at MIT?

  MIT is one of the best places in the world to be a student ... believe that you should learn from the very best the moment you set foot on ... in the class and go work together to get it done. We do this because
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  pansies sprouting up from the earth and cherry blossoms sprinkling their petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  the Cold War to mind in entertaining ways. Here's the difference: West ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... of campus tend to fit more easily into the "stereotypical MIT student

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  For the past seven weeks I've been living in Honolulu, Hawai'i with ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and culturally rich places in the world. My weekdays were essentially the same. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  in common - the Groundhog Day [annotation note="and maybe a painfully bad singing one"]episode.[/annotation] If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it’s the episode where a character suddenly finds themselves stuck

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  :p Reasons why I was gone from the internet last semester: drowning ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually, dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  two different sororities, ended up joining the more "popular" one even though I liked the other sorority a bit more/knew it was a better fit, did not like the one I joined, and dropped. I have been constantly wondering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... this photo, I was halfway through the second 2.678 project, which ... ="printed circuit board"]PCB[/annotation] that the professors designed. Somehow, the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier ... the most academically challenging places in the world. Many frosh make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019