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• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  (where most of MIT’s undergrad dorms are) from Simmons Hall and several of ... -Cambridge area, it’s practically a gold mine for snow-related activities, including

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  As of this weekend, I have watched Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... . Although the “I’m Just Ken” memes and bright pink were shoved down everyone’s

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  prominence. Basically it’s a big show that the Whitney puts on every two years, with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing ... that’s really not a complaint. The show featured 71 artists and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  exploit this behavior. As they say, it’s now a feature, not a bug. This is ... screw with our brain’s perception of emotion. Therefore, I picked the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it’s ... hadn’t truly lived until I came to college.   doing stuff So what’s the difference between living and surviving? PLAY. Living’s supposed to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  combine scientific understanding of the earth’s systems with engineering ... governments increase resources devoted to tackling the world’s most difficult

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  ) and don’t tell me that’s not posh. Anyways, I scribbled the following ... Liverpool church garden may not function as a church anymore, but it’s still

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  academia phase – it’s a surprise I hadn’t picked this book up earlier. I ... group of students at a secluded New England college; it’s filled with ... living, breathing evil–Jemisin’s writing style made it hard for me to stay

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  hurting the author’s feelings; in contrast, this atmosphere allows us to ... their feedback was relevant and insightful — here’s to hoping I did better ... nothing to do with academics. MIT’s libraries let you borrow books for 60

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  other person’s first sestina used.    Alan: So, on Sunday, we competitively wrote sestinas with each other’s end words—a race which I won. We

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  . Not even his phone’s mobile navigation app can save him from his ... place where it occurred; I remember the directions to my aunt’s house in Bangladesh, my childhood best friend’s favorite hiding spot from over a decade

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  difficult to find the time to write though. This isn’t an anomaly, it’s hard ... for me it’s just a [annotation note="arts graduation requirement"] HASS-A,[/annotation] and there are plenty of cool HASS-A’s available to take here. This might

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  [annotation note="it’s a 4W tradition to celebrate the birthdays for all the ... literature?"]city-naming.[/annotation] Jonathan’s laptop was connected to the ... picks up a brownie from the floor like you pick up someone’s abandoned

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  here. Two divided by four is one half, and that’s a little terrifying. But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and planning ahead. Without further ado, here’s some places I’ve been and some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  extensions way past reasonable deadlines. Along with my S^3 Dean and other ... in the popular “who’s more hosed” game. And then senior year came. I ... retake the GIR! D’s get degrees! Feeling refreshed at the start of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  . That’s the same place that you’ve been tracking your application ... people and here’s what they said: Cami ’23- spend time w friends

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  Bonjour. It’s me, Jacky, again. More than a year ago, I wrote a ... in this post – lobster beets and leeks – is my take on Mr. Keller’s ... of American chef Thomas Keller’s famous dish is crafted out of a desire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  here. As the nation’s vaccine rollout gains momentum, we have reason ... Medical Director Cecilia Stuopis, who can answer questions about MIT’s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  /geometry (hopefully). Much of the material from this section is drawn from Michael Hartl’s ... every circle’s circumference to its diameter is exactly pi: in other words ... the boundary are the same distance from a center. So perhaps it’s

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  's [annotation note='notably, however, this is no longer CJ’s longest post. why, CJ ... . It’s like a Sudoku or a crossword, but you have to figure out the rules

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021