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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  personal yet protective of my friends' and family's privacy, and I refused to ... perfectionism by now. MIT has forced me to become much more comfortable with ... writing would be to ride the high of my question-answering experience and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I failed the Swim Test! And now you can too!!

  

  one of the shores. The river is 200 yards wide, so you would need to ... a pool that was deep enough that I would be forced to actually swim ... hard. I took the walk of shame to the table and signed up for a swim

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  -growing infestation, one rat is chosen out of the many scurrying about campus to be ... . But neither of these were American animals. We turned to Mr. Hornaday ... revealed: (from the official Brass Rat website) "The focus of the Class Shank

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  of the fall semester, that offers a chance to meet every chapter ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... week, I arrived on campus full of that fear, which quickly seemed to be

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  of classes I'm forced to. Basically, it doesn't seem worth it to me to ... yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... these past three years - to start up a high school chapter of Amnesty

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  solace and peace of mind in being able to ask questions in smaller groups ... beneficial to me for the most part. So during the summer before MIT, one of ... nod off thanks to Zoom Fatigue/Overload/I’m tired of it, but I really

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  to hide from us and our pursuit of content. And we promise to serve you ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... a shuttle with a lot of other students each day to JPL.  There is also ... and exciting. After an awesome tour of Herbert's lab, I got a chance to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  to other local colleges! There is a blog section of our website where ... funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT, was to create murals with augmented reality animations in the MIT tunnels, the main goal of which was to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... their MIT experiences. I'm sure some of you will be able to relate to the ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  documentaries. More frequently, I force myself out of my room to go wander around ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about, I decided to answer a bunch of questions from the blogger bot that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see what they're up to. I have yet to be disappointed. 8. Some of them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  the tippity top of Vermont and 10 hours back to arrive back home on a ... to some friends. I forwarded that email over to some of my friends ... to Nova Scotia To see the total eclipse of the sun

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Human hair seemed to disobey the laws of gravity (somehow the videos had ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and

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

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to ... things I’ve learned to value, through the eyes of my younger selves to now ... , there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Entry for Parents Students shouldn't have all the fun.

  

  Saturday morning, a panel of current MIT parents will be on hand to share ... on public transportation. Most of you will drive to MIT on the ... voucher to have dinner in one of the residential dining halls, and there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  's time to move on to the next segment of this story . . . As many of you ... to be more active on campus than any of the other Asian cultural ... dedication to dispensing free food. Their last meeting had a rapturous array of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  -fail guide to cleaning my bathroom instead of writing about my most significant ... students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its ... 't redirect me to youarenotblack.com again." You can see why none of this is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  about quite a lot. To name a few of these memories: A friend at Random ... this blogpost is meant to be a mock-up of my monologue for the MIT ... year, was to feel like a part of something. To feel included. So here I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022