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• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  I felt. Igniting civic engagement on campus and advocating for peer to ... .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games ... not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  *puts on CMS hat* I LOVE watching media analysis video essays ... every video essay that exists on Youtube, dissecting the underlying ... the discussion is on media that I don’t personally consume (ex. family

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  . The music video is also very fun to watch. I think the love songs on ... ) every day. The love songs on this album called Lover are, of course, all ... AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  sacrificed my best chapstick to the Copenhell gods. It fell out of my pocket on ... vendors) get on the big screen try the festival beer ride on someone ... was the in band emblems on shirts. Silver chains and rings — on ears

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... ; if you’re curious, you can find the other readings on the course site linked above before we go on, i should mention that the replication crisis

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  on, but when the direct funding deadline passed and I had nothing in my ... 't really see a lot of emails on the eecs side, especially after i muted ... on your phone. It was nice—and it honestly helped dispel a few worries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  months and reflect on what it meant to me. Living in Boston I spent most of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... (Alysse didn't mind, since she worked in a lab on campus). I would wake up

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  to put on hair wax in [annotation note=" It seems like there are ways ... Twists  I didn’t think twists would work on my hair because I thought it ... uneven, mind your business😌😌😌. The falsies were hard to put on, and I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  survive on ramen and coffee before getting scurvy, but the mundane details ... grasp on the concepts to follow my professor's explanation. Cosmology! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  What’s happening to your apps right now? Views from the Inside

  been a new favorite Where are you reading? I have read on subways ... listening to? I've been listening to this album on repeat (I also have calm ... morning with a coffee! After that, I'm pretty much snacking on hi-chew for

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... worked on: Splines Splines are basically curves. For this assignment we ... and keep track of all the forces on each sphere. To simulate the cloth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... blue: I’ll be on the Lake Shore Limited from Boston to Chicago, then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  choose to take condensed classes, conduct research, work on projects, work ... completely on a whim Sophomore Fall. I’d always enjoyed skiing growing up ... on the team! I had no idea what to expect. I’d already paid team dues

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  grave (in sheer delight, not ghostly rage). There’s also a piano on the ... games (which I think at the time meant the 2-D Snake game on my cousin ... few days. Spent Sunday and Monday working on my 6.042 p-set--which took

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  's worth mentioning that I was on a FIRST team for all four years of High ... ten students on the team that season; we traveled to New York for the ... years to follow, I was on that sponsorship team: we wrote presentations

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  , octagenarian professor on paper, but in real life, he's a fun-loving guy with an ... on learning math on your own, or been wondering whether MIT's academic ... lolcats, you're also in luck. Read on. What's Cambridge like after two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  are likely the ones viewing MIT admissions on smartphones, to whom I say ... in my – err, my dad’s – day... Right. Moving on. Back in January ... looked at my to-do list and saw the item that had been sitting on there for

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  the Sox had a home game based on if lights were on in Fenway. Even then ... /internship/volunteering or on the weekends that we crusty upperclassmen who are so accustomed ... kayaking on the Charles. It’s very touristy, I know, but when you’ve walked

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... folks again this time to do some research on the payload (science ... me, exactly how, we're still a little muddy on, but there's certainly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  ="120020" /] On campus Enjoy some shows!  I have to plug Video Game Orchestra ... but this time on campus Mostly I mean Weekends @ MIT, which hosts a ... 12.409 Intro to Hands On Astronomy, we got to go out on the roof of

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025