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• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... a lot of life reflected with each mile that goes by. I am not a ... during my freshman year. Honestly, I was not a great, or even a good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• 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 ... /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A ... CMS.614: Critical Internet Studies, a Communication Intensive course

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

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... cold, and the way the sun disappears by four bothers me a lot actually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... finally went to bed, I was exhausted. I fell into a deep sleep. (Even if my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... not knowing who’s who). It’s pretty funny though, every time we meet a ... stands for Freshman Arts Program – is a weeklong FPOP (freshman pre

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty ... hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... future reference. A cool thing that I find amusing We went over to the ... space over the main entrance to the museum are the vehicles Daedalus (a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  it'd be a good idea to try to write a blog like this, when you could ... format the post so that he posts, so be it. look, dan, cj has a duty. he ... job. dan: why can't we just take a break from blogging? it's not as if

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So ... ="96640" /] b1 had a craft REX event (tie dye and embroidery) est. time: 60 ... est. time: 2 hrs I found these black cargo pants at a thrift store in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... ’ll be right enough that you’ll never be truly surprised where a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... . They are all great posts, but here are a handful of my favorites: Into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said ... was really happy with her answers, given that I was also a freshman girl

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020