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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  , and get to know each other. The VP and I have been working together for ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  dissolve friendships. I've learned that you can’t get everyone to like you ... report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below, where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be ... . "For goodness' sakes! Are you going to come see me play tonight ... him fervently. "Ay, Luciana! Va bene! I'm getting up now..." Yawning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... this semester has gone to recovering my study skills... I fully empathize

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival footage to illustrate MIT's place in the world and its swift rise to the ... portrays MIT in a way that is familiar to students past and present, and yet

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  ’t even find the energy to think that getting out of bed in the morning is ... thing to do. JOHN: what if i get distracted because i’m sad? JOHN: what if ... have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  . Somewhat anticipating Spain was going to get canceled before it actually did ... This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called ... ever beautiful Madrid, Spain. However, obviously, due to omicron, I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred emails to read Ten ... Something called BCC It's time now, to sing out Though the spamming never ... spam (oh you got to, you got to remember the spam) Remember the spam (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... . My oldest daughter is a high school junior this year, so I'll get to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in ... (many) graduation requirements is to get a “concentration” in the ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  "]P/NR.[/annotation] And it was, in some ways. PNR definitely made it easier to get into the ... follow to get something working. 8.022: Physics II: Electricity and ... Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  lot of people. look how easy it is to get signed up! Three steps, that ... ever want to know the surface area of a golf ball with radius 3cm covered ... those dimensions). MIT is getting tricky like that. Much like the leaves

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... select the right summer and enrichment opportunities to best position my ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... Last Sunday may not have been my first time coming back to MIT, but I ... same energy. The streets were full of fraternity vans trying to snag new

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... worry about getting run down by bicyclists who are, as far as I can tell ... corridors that do happen to be indoors are famous and steeped with historical

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  , he didn't get to eat any Angel Food Cake. He only got to look at six ... the GRT apartment. The Faculty  Once the faculty started to arrive, we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... simple: they will use lasers to burn anything into anything. As you can see ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits ... If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011