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• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  time, from prehistoric jungles and adventures in space to MIT campus ... had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  to feel for a very long time.   my 18.022 professor has a ... neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part Two Interior photos of vacant East Campus dormitory rooms. (Photos of occupied/"lived-in" rooms are to come.)

  

  live. With this post, I will take the time to clarify something from my ... First of all, a big thank you to everyone who replied to my request ... -depth entries about projects as I decide what exactly to write about! In this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... local activist groups and residents, he hopes to empower people to monitor ... the impacts of the oil spill to dissipate, he said. "If we do it now

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... . One spoonful of corn chowder was allotted to each resident, provided ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  am happy to have had the chance to share my garbage with the world. If ... MIT. After debating between a couple of topics, I chose to tell a story about struggling with sacrificing self-care to prioritize academics

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  times are hard, I'll pass, purge classes but I shan’t have lied. It’s true ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  ). And it took under 10 minutes to get there. It takes less time to get ice ... OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to ... ways and have trouble admitting that I'm wrong. Today, I found out that I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  even have time to chill last IAP? I'm not entirely sure...I feel like I ... mit. these two projects consumed quite a bit of my time since I had to ... it's IAP! I don't have classes! I can end my day at 5 pm like I could

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are ... from my Discover Urban Studies and Planning FPOP back in 2009. Aye, time

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  about what I have to say all that much - there, I covered everyone!), I ... people ever. (Don't argue. I'm right.) I have fantastic evidence to back up ... first session, and this time around I'm working with AP Physics. Physics

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  time to do, including mural painting, knitting, and now... apparently ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  frequency of my blogs. I do not have to force-write posts if I am in a writer’s block and I do not have to force-write posts about things I don’t care ... meaningful to us than readers finding it so. But there are times when a writer

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  week that I didn’t find the time (or the energy) to step away from it all ... having conversations with women affected by the epidemic to being ... we can have a safe relationship" "I want to become a teacher. We need

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  normal animal merely exist. It took time to adjust, but I grew to like the ... that, I mean Ola) should have informed me of what to expect. We finished ... Massachusetts. They also have given me a potent desire to share it with everyone

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my ... ’ve written a blog for MIT, and I really don’t have much to contribute.  But I ... don’t even need to beat this dungeon to finish the game. I could skip

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with ... in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  Tube! So if you're bored, and you want to screw around with something kinda ... was still called TheFacebook - this was a better time, a time when ... evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... practice. Pretty damn cool if I may say so. I was acting as an escort to Dean

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007