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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right ... think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just ... Christmas and Old Russian New Year’s, candles on Hanukkah, candy and costumes ... been to eat healthier food that costs less money, with a weekly exception

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... , especially those who are focused on writing and teaching. So I was pleased to ... /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer ... age seventeen, then let my permit expire. So I had to take a new knowledge test in Oregon to qualify for a new permit. However, due to COVID

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some ... defiance to a system that is built to oppose you rather than support you. on ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at ... me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... to be Saturdays, when I assumed I’d have a lower-than-average step

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  wish I had a better justification than this, but in 9.00 (intro to ... they complain, I like to give them a blank look, as though the concept is ... is Independent Activities Period, a time to take an interesting class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  discussed quite a bit. It was first posed to me on a call with someone on ... different vibes that tend to say a lot about the floor. In dorms like New ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Paris or Nicky). Headed to Loomis Chaffee for a school visit. Didn't get to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford ... to come see me today - heh) but I did have a great conversation with

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ... gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the ... a semester to pursue any research question we can imagine. This is a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  every once in a while it takes on new meaning that makes it all worthwhile ... interests. I guess I had a lot on my mind. I like to write, but this is ... , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... spectacular that others might want it, and isn’t that a boastful claim to make ... . I switched to a math major (from a humanities major) in fall 2019

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  on-field after a cardiac arrest. i’ve always been the kind of person to ... the brain is just a collection of neurons that have no choice but to ... in your brain to fire in a way which destroys you: “He means the Word

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  Student Street. Follow the parade to a New Orleans Jam session for the MIT ... open to the entire MIT community and will be a great way to celebrate New ... willing to work with you. If you need to work out a flexible solution for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  a glacier lagoon and returned to Vík to stay in a cabin on the beach ... friends to go on the trip with me, I sent an email that said "there is a ... car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the ... , early on Sunday morning, I was lying on the floor. I don't tend to lie ... looking over to the side and seeing what's going on elsewhere. Oh, good

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  can answer this question: when New Orleans rebuilds, what can be done to ... Louisiana. Some of you may be willing/able to attend a different meeting; if ... - this blog, kept by a local New Orleans reporter, is a great primary

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  can be said about a good number of esolangs. I’m sort of working on a ... character with ASCII value equal to the current position’s memory , takes a ... ’m not too familiar with Whitespace, but it appears to function in a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  whether you're new to HDM or returning, I've got a fun little Internet thing ... ). Users move hands around the dial to ask a question, relying on layered ... talk a little bit about why they decided to spend so much time on this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019