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• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  [annotation note="Graduate Resident Advisor, a grad student who provides support to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 (architecture). “How do you perceive pika?” someone asked. “It’s a little

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... , with my hometown chapter tied neatly in a bow, I felt- quite honestly ... .    Life doesn’t always work out this way, but, a year later, I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  of Cows![/caption] Winter in Wyoming—a symphony of snowflakes and ice over barren land sprinkled with old red barns and cattle. It's a season of rugged beauty, where Carhartts are more a necessity than a fashion

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  I received a January MIT Newsletter and saw a summary of Ankita D. ‘23 ... .  (Ankita, I'm sorry I'm using your post from last year as a direct guide for ... . Ceri: "i only used [spotify] when i went for a few outdoor runs this year

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  summer, I interned at a lunar exploration company called ispace. They are a ... , Mission 1, may have unfortunately [annotation note="This is a very nice word ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note="A

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several robots such that they'll follow a trajectory that helps them reach their goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  a fiction writer that went something like, it’s so upsetting how ... this random guy in his mom’s basement will generate a Pulitzer-Prize novel with a few keystrokes. As somebody who has spent many years

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  there is a ddr (dance dance revolution) machine in the basement of walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  winning embracing positive-sum

  

  well on math contests meant i would have a worse rank, other people getting into top colleges meant i would have a harder time doing so myself ... friends found a new friend group that they began spending lots of time with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  I started writing blogposts when I came to MIT. I wanted to be like a ... vaguely speaking I’d say this has been a moderate success (y'know, being an ... insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of ... think at that time of semester i spent a lot of time playing kingdom of loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  recently i looked through a list of all my friends who graduated from ... me now than they did while they were in school i have a bad habit ... how good a post can be. i am optimistic by nature, so whenever i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  This weekend, I moved into a new apartment. This academic year, I’ll be living in Central Square with three roommates - one of us a teacher ... of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  When Taylor Swift's 1989 album dropped, I read a review describing "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... . As a kid, I thought peppermints were spicy until I found another word

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  home, I'd just be playing Minecraft all day. So I set myself a basic ... semester a little less hellish, and (3) exploring Boston and Cambridge. UROP ... schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... from seeing a 100% on a tricky part of a MicroQuiz is unparalleled. The ... feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  Guys, in spite of everything that's happened, I'm having a college ... community are living in near MIT in a place we've dubbed "soft house," since ... watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  pastries. i'd die for a sticky bun"]Flour,[/annotation] [annotation note ... "]discover[/annotation] new places now. Here are some of my favorites! Brookline Lunch A ... was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020