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• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... dyed over it with red and of course, that’s refused to wash out for the ... , though. things are fine. things are fine most of the time. i think i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  there. This post, just for fun, is the unboxing of my cabinet! I'll go ... stocked up on everything when I had extra time over IAP. By the end of the ... this is the least healthy segment of my food consumption >

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  [annotation note="courtesy of the valiant desk guardian Ekanem O."]the front ... : “Guys it's for real nearing Shaq height.” As the latest beneficiary of ... majorly Part Of The Problem. Going to college 5,000 miles away from home

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Enigma Gold Star Winners! Don, tell them what they've won...

  

  of you met the challenge. Initially we had planned to only award one winner, but by the list you can see we are feeling the holiday cheer! The ... MIT network... All Numbers, All The Time. First place six-axis and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  , my collaborators—friends—and i were wrapping up the first draft of a ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the problems in the first chapter, and i thought to myself "i can't solve that

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just sos ya knows. "The Walk" by Mayer Hawthorne - This is the kind of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  rain thing down. The first thing I’ve discovered is that umbrella’s don ... when I don't have to worry about the legibility of my notes when I get ... where it just rains. This week is one of them. It has been raining pretty

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy ... open space signifies an abundance of opportunities. The Charles River: My newest source of vitality and inspiration Seen from the MIT Sailing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  of failure. My first few weeks at MIT have seen me pick out the major ... some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain ... sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  've reached the limits of your productivity. Conclusion: (4) is your only ... form of a TA or professor is not available: we wander through the living ... on the floor of my room, helping a freshman with a couple of 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.

  

  the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon.

  • by Bryan
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  opening of the new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex at MIT: On Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... -foot building of limestone and glass, the largest research building on campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  had enough of the structure of the class and ditched it. That's ok ... 've never done proof-based math before, plus all of the open and closed sets ... . To go back to the angeriest, reddest of bois KC, the reason I thought

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the ... : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly ... project where we would test a feature of the Hodgkin and Huxley model. My

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  The Infinite Corridor at MIT is the pulsing spine of central campus. As the artery which connects most of the main academic and ... (although the type of alignment bears a closer relationship with that of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some ... . At least a few hours. Try to visit most of the dorms! Even if there ... the wonders of MIT, and you’ll learn a lot more about the people

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the Colbert Bump MIT's Riley Crane talks DARPA Challenge on ''The Colbert Report''

  

  Remember when MIT beat out teams from around the world to be the first to find all 10 hidden red balloons in DARPA's balloon challenge? Well Dr. Riley Crane, the team leader, was interviewed on "The Colbert

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  one of my labmates has a friend from elementary school who was on the latest season of love on the spectrum. another labmate watched it and told ... . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025