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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... aficionado, Walter, to develop my first roll of film ever. (amusingly, I used to make fun of all my friends in high school who shot film (see: the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  -D, there are usually open spots by the first day of class, and you can go to the first day of the class and have the professor sign an Add Form for ... friend. :-D] I know it must be kind of confusing to reconcile the fact that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  , this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first ... arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... llamas and alpacas. the pc running out of a shoebox built solely for vr

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... togetherness, that at the most basic level, you're all going through a rite of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics ... predicament eerily reminiscent of when I got rejected from The Cheesecake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  -mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person ... organelles of the cell. This is still very much a work in progress, but we have

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write ... the first snow. I remember people explaining how frostbite works. I

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  crochet. The essence of crochet is creating an appealing piece. However, appealing is subjective and ultimately depends on the values of the maker and the functionality of the piece itself. For example, appealing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  the first couple of years of college, that just means I won’t be able to ... entry to [annotation note="the Museum of Fine Arts"]the MFA,[/annotation] [annotation note="the Institute of Contemporary Arts"]the ICA

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Office of the First Year hosts around two or three lunches with professors ... lunch is pretty much my first meal of the day. After lecture, I head to ... ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  since the end of first semester. After my last final, 18.02/Multivariable ... what to eat first and how to get to the bottom of the plate let alone see ... days to be exact. It's also the first semester without Freshmen Pass

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... table of contents, which tells your readers what the sections of your post ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  of an accomplishment. But! I learned so much on the sidelines from the veteran players! How to play defense by being on the open side of my player ... caught a disc was in the end zone, scoring my first point ever. Memories

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  event was particularly special for me because I was one of the four ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is ... live in the house. The rest of us are scattered around campus. Publicity

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  ! Terracina was the first of the archeological sites we went to. On the hike up ... into groups based on research topics. In the first half of our first day ... . It was one of the most interesting classes I’ve ever had, getting to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  in a state represent: F <- the value of the first number OP1 <- the operation between the first and second number S <- the value of ... TRANSITION, sk = s0 (the very first index of the second number regardless of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  . But that's actually part of the point of biological engineering: it is a ... they want to do for the rest of their lives, anyway? As I was saying ... thought I would give you a brief insight into some of the questions that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008