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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  following questions immediately. 1) When was MIT founded? 2) If MIT was a ... MIT is likely to face, come 2113? 6)Over a 1000 freshmen will be ... will you say hi to, if a new fish is born today? 7) “Are new fishes born

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  announcements. But where to add value? Right now we're in a strange time. A time ... . But what you might not see, is that there is also a lot of positivity ... to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  because they were a long time ago and I'm getting old), and all these blog ... calmed me down, added a slight glaze to my eyes, and made me demand more ... funny"). For better or for worse, I'm a different person now than I was

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Hawking. I'm a huge fan of conservation laws (you know, like mass and energy ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I'm starting off with a huge, monolithic apology to John Curtice, mostly because

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle ... prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is ... a national symbol of westward expansion, Barack Obama's favorite pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  if I thought DEAPS would be fun. Would it be fun or would it be a waste ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead ... didn't for a few days. That's because I actually got busy with my UROP

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  moments spread over months at a time. thankfully for us, google photos not ... where you took your photos, in the form of a heat map: [carousel image1 ... — indicates a spot of high photo density and a clump of memories. here are some

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  ’s, like, a more powerful movement for me. So I do it with more force.” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... signs around every corner. We were just a first time team from an unknown

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT ... to take, so many clubs i was never a part of, so many parts of campus i ... on one hand, i am really excited to spend a lot of time on some

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  minimal consequences. And every year, we celebrate this fact with a whole ... was probably the one event I was most excited to go to. There were a lot ... what the worst one was, and they said it was a sauce called “Da Bomb

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  This semester, I’m taking a class called 21.01, “Love, Death, and Taxes”. It’s a [annotation note="Communication Intensive in the Humanities, Arts"]CI-H[/annotation] philosophy class, and it’s a grand old time! The

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... anthropology class teacher asked us to say our name and a small story related to our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few blurry memories of restaurants, relatives, and a zoo. I flew over to California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  I made an AI write most of this post because I forgot I needed to post this week

  

  . If you haven't heard of GPT-3, it's a language model that uses deep ... give it. For example, this is the prompt I gave GPT-3. This is a great idea for a blog post. Unfortunately, I'm in the mood to post about very

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... as writing a prompt on the other board that visitors can write answers for. Chalk art's already a thing that you see a lot on campus (see: MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my first spring break!!! 13 MIT students take San Diego

  

  until a few weeks ago, i'd never had a college spring break (spreak, as some may say). in my freshman year, i was kicked off campus a few ... incredible. this year, there were a few locations in consideration for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  Institute community must do to forge a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive ... histories. And, we commit to using the challenge of our past to inform a ... public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... grade. There’s a tree so gnarled and bent that even little kids can climb

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a ... 't really have that much experience in writing cover letters or a resume; in fact, I didn't even know where to start. My resume was honestly kind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020