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• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  “My name is Paige, and I'm a bit of an optimist. Or at least, I try to be. ... Beyond being an optimist, I'm a mathematician. Or at least ... sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made a bet. I had been telling him about my research interests and my desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  . Ryan, Pennsylvania Click on the image for a flash animation: Carla, Costa Rica I became a Food Channel fan since I decided to apply to MIT. No ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation note="I just discovered this jasmine oolong tea at a Chinatown ... celebrate! If not, I hope this blog, the same virtual mug of tea, and a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  't be a wuss and say "But there are fourteen hundred entrieeeees in the archives!" Boo hoo. I've read and tagged them all in four days. Don't be a ... moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  So, a quick recap of my week before I launch into repsonses to the ... a pretty cool tour of the reactor and learned how to decontaminate ... contaminated part off and drop it in this big yellow disposal bin with a caution

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  on the last day of freshman orientation, just a few days before i ... from the auditorium, was a list of eleven questions. sadly, at the end of ... my inbox, a moment buried four months in the past: hi, what classes

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... a lot of life reflected with each mile that goes by. I am not a ... during my freshman year. Honestly, I was not a great, or even a good

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  language text in response to prompts.  There has been a tremendous amount of ... /W) collected some Advice and responses from faculty on ChatGPT and A ... CMS.614: Critical Internet Studies, a Communication Intensive course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  a hard time saying through words can be said through my Big Rock pictures, which speak for themselves. The Big Rocks have a lot to say, just ... cold, and the way the sun disappears by four bothers me a lot actually

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  friday night was the beginning of teammate hunt, a puzzlehunt written with ... to work on the hunt. so i was looking forward to it for quite a while ... field a team for puzzlehunts and work together for a weekend. i did work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  excellent time! The one thing her post is missing is a section called "how to get home when you oversleep and you have a morning train to catch" so I ... finally went to bed, I was exhausted. I fell into a deep sleep. (Even if my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  ’s probably clear from our avatar, but we are going to be blogging as a duo ... not knowing who’s who). It’s pretty funny though, every time we meet a ... stands for Freshman Arts Program – is a weeklong FPOP (freshman pre

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty ... hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... future reference. A cool thing that I find amusing We went over to the ... space over the main entrance to the museum are the vehicles Daedalus (a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006