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• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a ... 's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies ... grade...or the stress of finding a job amidst all this academic pressure

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  their best work in the dark), hackers installed a Captain America shield ... months, which they started planning about a year ago after learning a new ... appreciate the gesture. The Great Dome has long been a site of hacks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA ... with our mom near the shore at night. We saw a dark moving spot in the distance, and as we approach, we realized it was a sea turtle! Because we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  housing, which actually means practically nothing. It's mostly just a place ... to pick a place you feel most connected to the people in. I can't stress that enough. A lot of times, I see students getting charmed by

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Seamless And A Seamless Transition [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I present to you "Seamless: Computational Couture," a smart-fashion show and…

  

  [by Sadie Scheffer '10] I've seen a plethora of Project Runway ... bed in a case that smells like mildew. Luckily for fashion, not everyone keeps her ambitions in a box! I present to you all, eager art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  friend Tiffany (MIT '06) for lunch; she's interning for Accenture, a ... me a lot of the Stata Center, with its bright colors, vibrant dining ... pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... shoot an email to be less unknown!).  You probably have a passion for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  It's a beautiful day here in northern Virginia, where I'm celebrating New Years Eve with some of my friends from MIT. Since there's a bunch of ... counselor claims that because it is a selective english school with a harsh

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  Many a night and moon ago, I was climbing, and my phone slipped from ... severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being only two and a half hours long. But the opera is self-standing and

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the ... spent my summer days working at Hasbro. I could've chosen a lot of ... defining moments of my time at Hasbro. That Friday, Hasbro had a Big Wheel

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  When I was a freshman I joined a plasma physics lab. Plasma physics ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and that simulation can give you a better idea of how plasma behaves in a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  yet, each one of them rocked in a different way, kind of like a charity ... 'm reaching a little with that one. But you should still check out the entry ... for some Dim Sum at Chau Chow City, a restaurant that also features

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  my friends that I have a 4.0 at MIT! Granted, none of them know that we use a 5.0 scale, but that's not the point. I have a B average. At MIT. I ... for the summer. After some panic that I'd be jobless and living in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock ... , but success across the board. Every MIT team in the NEWMAC has won a ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  This is PUF! I obtained a temporary cat this summer because Ilani A. ‘23 was off at a very cool math REU that, sadly, did not allow cats ... lives on Black Hole in Random during the year, where they have a tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... , which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella ... . roadkill buffet held an improv comedy show, the musical theater guild ran a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... worthwhile activities a student might do. While many MIT students have ... through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012