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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  it might be more interesting to do research than to do nothing, a ... . I can read ten hours a day without any class or exam to do it for. I ... is obviously a thing people do, or try to do, but that simple ideal

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  to do. This means that doing something without a massive impact (but ... field, than doing something with a large impact that you don't love. You ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  single page, which did not have the information I wanted. Finally, a Google ... [annotation note="That is, a single Google search. Come on, this is the MIT ... . That term, "reengineering", is an actual term. A quick Google search

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  *written by Liz O. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... something physical to do after a lot of mental focus all day really helps me ... confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  massive group meals! My friends and I are actually planning to do a big ... —hey, we should probably make a list of ingredients! But wait. We couldn’t do ... leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce.  Sadly, like a lot of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  . (But actually it was awesome, and much like a baby-PAX – a video game conference started in Seattle that now has a Boston branch. I went last year ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... before about FIRST, which was a transformational experience for me as a high school student, and which I have been involved with as a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  I do not have a Vagina. Now granted, The Vagina Monologues were named ... Cormick, but naïve-first-year-me decided to dig deeper. I sent out a Google form ... The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  tickets to the BSO through the college card program. They were doing an a ... projects during this week if the class has a final. So, pretty much the ... and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, both of which I've studied a lot

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  it is like to live in a rural area or a small town (even though I do ... from a rural or small town?". This is an iteration of one of the most ... consider {insert town name I have never heard of} a small town in their

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  a new skill, doing research, or building an awesome project. HP and ... ’t be able to do much. When your MP and HP drop below a certain threshold ... ’t do a pull-up and my room perpetually looks like a broken laundry

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  . There were a thousand more things I could be doing—homework, playing video ... about, just a whole lot of doing and a whole lot of existing ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... friends and remember to message them back and Google Calendar a time to meet ... ’s always a great time when I do catch up with them though, whether due to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  Google search showed that I might have plantar fibroma, a nodule that grows ... I had a post planned last Thursday, but then it was like everything ... has nothing to do with the November Rule). I finally have time to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  down a quick list of what I do by days of the week: Monday: 7 ... A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I just did in 20.109 (Bioengineering Lab), engineering a system can mean

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  them, but I almost never do.  Well, what’s a better time than now? Since ... without actually doing it. I caved and bought a skateboard with money I ... —and twisted it into a deep infatuation with this place, much like we can do with

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  is a great place to go to school, but I also recognize that it’s not a ... a place a great place, MIT checks off a lot of those boxes. With that said, a place being objectively great, doesn’t make it the best place for

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can ... that I am not a match for, some which would be alright, and only one (so ... they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  Hi! It’s been a while. I first opened this Google Doc on Nov. 27th ... naturally wavy! In a three-quarters-of-college crisis, I decided to do away ... expressed a strong desire to learn how to do a pull-up. The good news is, I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it feels like i'm drowning. --- hand foot mouth disease (what a terrible name) took me down for a week or two. it's been going around, and ... - hands and feet for a few days felt like someone was jabbing a needle into

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017