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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... advising, the freshman is assigned to an MIT faculty member or staffperson, who holds meetings on or near registration day to discuss potential

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  helps people who build web applications talk to each other in different ... for Windows. I travel more than I used to, mostly to visit friends who ... games,” [annotation note="CJ tried to explain but I refused to follow, on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Announcement] The MIT Bloggers are hosting an AMA! Ask us anything this Friday and Saturday!

  

  /IAmA subreddit."]AMA ("Ask Me Anything")[/annotation] on April 18 (9 AM EST) to ... AM, I'm going to make a post (on the MIT Blogs) called "ASK US (the MIT ... people’s questions if you really want to see them answered. Seriously

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I ... Simmons Dining a measly B, I knew what I had to do over spring break – go

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip ... going to skip this blogging challenge. It’s been forever since I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a little dread, and awkwardly asking to check-in. After [annotation note ... of the gigantic moving carts and, somewhat clumsily, maneuvered it to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to ... art styles across the blogger generations so it might be cool to try the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  For most of my life before coming to MIT, I had been really into ... to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in ... , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... weekend. My parents and my [annotation note="She's now about to be a first ... Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  what I wanted to post this weekend. A month into my time at MIT I can ... week has been a wild ride. To quantify it: Five hours of sleep per ... my hall’s kitchen at five AM this morning, trying to study for a test I

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen to Palestinian hip hop, but when I'm in Palestine, I listen to the ... embarked on a site visit to a small village next to Ramallah, Palestine, with

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill ... helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important, what we can do to make it better. For example…  Are you able to balance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  class together! Not all twins are like this, but we just happened to ... and Engineering) is extremely flexible! So as opposed to in K-12, when ... requirements, we now have the option to BOTH have schedules we enjoy and that are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take ... full of finals studying to do. I’ve been one of those 1800 kids for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM I’ve been struggling to blog lately. Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly because the positive things I want to write seem to take too much effort or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I’d intended to write this post the first day of classes, but was ... . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Solar Eclipses and Bloggers bloggers around the country all watching the eclipse

  

  Earth. To someone standing on Earth, the Moon would cover the Sun. In a ... set up and eclipse glasses to pass around. There was a huge crowd even ... able to take pictures of the Sun with my phone camera. Still too much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 22, 2017