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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  : the Student Center. This is where the magic happens. The fourth floor of W20 is darkroom land. Three darkrooms live here, and I wouldn’t ... digital equipment you can borrow at MIT is Nikon.) The Tech has weekly

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  So you guys. MIT is hard. No, seriously. I figure you've probably ... Douglass, an American Slave, which is bound with Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (which is only suggested and not required reading for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  Philadelphia with my beloved high school friend Shana. See how excited she is ... there, we wandered to the Reading Terminal Market, which is apparently ... fudge without a knife. Indeed, the power is ours! Of course, if my UROP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn ... _sTuerUMxLDrGS8g This album is amazing. Tomtsu was active from 2018 - 2021, and was

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  to yap has taken hold, and I shall oblige it, because orientation is ... is fun, and REX is exciting, but REX can also be a bit of a stressful time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  number is hard: do you count distinct classes, or should you weigh classes ... classes, I'll mention grading a lot. Of course, grading is only a small part ... .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  recommend an FPOP to anyone who is on the fence about applying to one. Not ... Boston and Cambridge a lot. Newbury Street is probably one of my favorite ... opposite. Boston and Cambridge is such a social hub that there is such a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  that. “How can I be so stupid?” is common. “Why can’t I get this ... thing MIT did”, or “This is what MIT looks like”. This is not that blog. I ... read these blogs know what an integral is, but my mom, who also reads

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  the same question: “How do you like it here?” and “Is Nigeria different from America?” Yes it is. It’s dryer and hotter, hot enough that we ... . The food is wildly different. In Nigeria, food is abacha and achicha and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  ground that is commonly found in public bathrooms, train stations, and ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Wednesday, the line is much shorter, more similar to what the lines were the ... number, confirm my address is still valid. "Do you still live in 362 ... really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  that will soon become evident, I think most of this is at best overstated ... .I.-assisted writing. CMS/W is where I did my grad degree, and also occasionally teach ... , should learn to write prose that is clear, organized, and effective, and to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  someone who blogs and is very interested in labor economics and methods of ... . Much research that happens in economics is very different from what you ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... joint major is between comparative media studies (CMS) and course 6 ... for Social Media (CMS.613/21W.751) is—I don’t know where else you could

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  ). Thanksgiving for me is the beach, yoga classes twice a day, and almost absolutely no work, which is something I was bad at freshman and sophomore year ... . This blog post is mostly for me but it is also for you, in case you live

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is ... the New York Botanical Garden. This is actually my newest addition to my ... is attributable to"]traditional dress[/annotation] and the wish на

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  presentation, we learn that “there is an 82% chance the horse will receive some ... a horse’s lower leg signifies that it is sufficiently warmed up. Equi ... . Each color represents something—that the boot is incorrectly placed

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  of 2.007. This class is like the origin of everything engineering that ... work on the robotics board.  The theme for this year is “Wicked FBD: Applying Gravity”, and the board is Wicked themed. There’s a poppy field in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  and oral communication provided.  This is my [annotation note ... class is honestly the one I'm least excited about because I really, really ... ) Research is really fun, though, and I really like deep diving into topics. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT ... far of 2016. StartMIT is basically a playground for aspiring ... : Rose Lincoln.   StartMIT is technically a for-credit class, but its

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016