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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  Now that CPW is behind us, I am beginning to return to my life as a ... to fire up the Yamaha YHT-160 (5.1 channel A/V Home Theater receiver ... I noticed that TCM (Turner Classic Movies) was holding a month

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Fringe that Stole Christmas hair @ MIT, and several hair-raising puns

  

  at a hair doctor and they told me there was nothing they could do for ... letting my hair do it for me. Here’s a photo of me at nerd camp, with one of ... collaborated to make this post a reality- hair’s to you! (ha, ha) [intro

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  't get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of ... peers into the room - "Long night?" "Yeah." "Do you have a moment?" 6 ... QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  starting it. But don't. Don't start a flame war. If you do, the people at ... -mail as “50 Mudkip Post.” Do you know what a Mudkip is? It's this cute ... On May 18th I wrote a blog entry called “Ring Committee” which was

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  , losers]." Go there and check it out for yourself. So do a little soul ... wanted to do a double in math and physics, and you finished all the ... celebrated with our friends with a cake and some quality reminiscing. I wanted

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  A few weeks ago, MIT —  in conjunction with Stanford, IBM, and Aeris ... to the lawsuit in question, but that have a stake or insight into the ... Supreme Court cases having to do with affirmative action, most recently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  people in my group wholeheartedly recommended doing a Ph.D. if I was ... nontrivial, and it felt like exactly what I wanted to do as a job. my project ... do a lot of analysis but also learn about real physics. also, pasadena

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  new, cool sensor applications. I’m vaguely intrigued by doing a sensor ... more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  . Anyway, it would be cool to do a hack getting some of the faculty involved ... : Doesn't anyone do stuff like put a Volkswagen on top of the dome anymore ... Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  do this summer?” i spent these three months on a languid journey of self-discovery, mostly. i did a lot of cooking, a lot of romanticizing, a ... ’ve settled into their rooms — it’s like i’ve been stirred from a hazy slumber

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  chairs and a lamp, all we really want to do is fall into bed and sleep and ... I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  away enough free time to do more science? Is it vanity? Is it masochism ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... 't hired until I was a bitter, jaded junior, when I'd completely forgotten

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Most delicious deliverables ever Also, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm having a bad hair fortnight.

  

  ). I could do all that, but there’s a pear clafouti recipe I’m dying to ... -week performance period than I probably normally do in a two-month period. Middle ... it. There were a few nights where I went to our student center

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  undergraduate science majors and more than a third of the engineering students are ... mathematics.” It seems that MIT is increasingly cited as a paragon for the ... visitors and family friends that MIT has a 50:50 gender ratio, I am always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  about the things I kept forgetting to do — but a few accused me of making ... prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... directions.  I still remember a quiz I had about plotting points, where I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  every time you take a measurement, do data analysis, or breathe around an ... plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You do now. Don’t know how what a 𝜒² value is? You do now. As someone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Blog] What It’s Like Studying Design at MIT Recounted by two seniors

  

  design, and we spent our time doing readings and working on a series of ... opportunities people recommend, etc., you have to do a bit of digging, including ... can do, and what I can do. I’m in a place I honestly did not envision

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  Saturday Night in Simmons it's so busy here tonight [i really need to study or go to sleep]

  

  new shoes for Gatas [explained below] that this would make a great blog ... a new chalk mural in the main stairway in the lobby. So much talent ... ="107133" image3="107136" image4="107135" /] This would have been a cool shot, but

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  other people's pain. Not a hundred, not ten, not even one. All you can do ... just to do that. The mantra becomes a kind of rhythmic drumming, beneath ... a tick, tick, tick. — tick, tick...BOOM! (2021) Recently, I’ve had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

   not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel ... entertainment and media. I'll be doing this UROP with Shayna '23 and my advisor is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022