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• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  music is really important to me. i swear to god, without Spotify, i ... playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  fun things that happened. So we decided to write lists of each ... in the semester, and covers all the material up to that point (which ... final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... , you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  School is out and many times high school students struggle to find things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  [To be honest, I've had a little bit of writer's block lately, under ... , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while ... was trying to spoon-feed myself solid food again. Now that I've moved

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  chapter always angst about this and try to figure out why and what to do ... -Blood Prince. We also got to see the printing presses. I bet most people have never seen a braille printing press before. I seem to have been unable to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next ... stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least ... should be more grateful. … It's such a privilege to be here. I'm really

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a Cambridge based studio called Gallery 263. I've been to [annotation note ... for a circle of artists to sketch. Life drawing is essential to a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  i already feel like an alum visiting mit, when i come to meetings, when i eat dinners with people, when i go to square dancing every week ... 's disturbing to me how painless it feels to be saying goodbye. two games i have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... consequently broke up and we all moved to different dorms and eventually stopped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to plan. On December 20th, I went to Raymond's birthday party with Emma

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you want to spend all the time you can indoors where it's warm. This makes ... semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... , we are building on MIT’s established leadership in these fields to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple of weeks ago I had to decide what I would do over the summer. On one

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... credit to Richard Beaubien and Marshall Goff who helped photograph the slam

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  's about time to blog about it. Turns out I'm just as bad as blogging things ... hours for no apparent reason. Hopefully my blurry photo does something to ... originally thought that we needed to report extra early so that we could have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009