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• 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 / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... event B, which will have some other consequence C, and so on). Even as I ... that will have consequences on how my blog impacts those people, and so

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  Over the past three years, I’ve been on the organizing board for MIT ... pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... Gala will be held on the 6th floor, set design (Maggie + Julia + Lindsay

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  not being on campus. I took four classes, and had one UROP, and hung out ... , and to work on satellite controls. As spring 2021 bled into summer, I ... Astro PhD program at MIT on [annotation note="technically before I actually

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... recently, reflecting on his own Early Action rejection from a "dream" school

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... my posters on the brick wall facing my and Uzay’s desks. Every day, it seems, another poster falls, and I stick it back on grimly with another

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  On pi day, campus was buzzing with events.  That morning, I even planned out all my pie stops: a Project Manus makerspace mentor social ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  't really damage the end product but just bring me to a new perspective on ... images and seeing where I'm taking, picking some things to add on as I go ... bloom in unpredictable ways. I was planning on just talking about poetry

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... by AI “written in Rona’s style” or trained on my publicly available ... rely on writing as a steady source of income, and if everything goes as

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

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , sitting on my bed typing a blogpost. I've started waking up way too early ... from). Waking up this early was a change. One I didn't intend on, but a ... short montage of packing a backpack, taking meds, throwing on shoes, and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... by Summer Moulder '26. Inspired by GetMIT by Mitchell Gu. Based on 2048

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022