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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... : It’s hard to stay healthy at MIT! Because of this, each of the ... Bull cans, it’s your friends who get you through the night. There are

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave; this can be as simple as making sure a toilet doesn't overflow or as ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  -emailed them. After that, the turnaround was pretty quick. I went to zoom ... target. There's a quote misattributed to Einstein that goes, "If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it well enough." In

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  (Click to zoom) Panoramic look at my room in Random Hall, let ... crux of my media collection. It starts off with some classic newspaper comics, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. From there it leads into the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and ... allows us to see history as it happened, as if she was the proverbial fly on the wall at Independence Hall. I find it amazing that American

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  for the class is such that it's easy to use it to escape from daily work ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... . To which I'd reply, yes, but it's not the actual class that makes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  walking long distances. It's the subtle things, though, that are hard to ... ? When it comes to matters of character, "it never feels like one has ... sake of physical fitness, but for the sake of proving to myself I can do

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  pictures can you fit in a blog post?” The answer, it turns out, is a lot! I ... , which I happily used as an excuse to fold geometric origami and build ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• 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 ... , though, and it's painful to see what campus life used to be like when there ... system in place of it.  The non-conformist, unique groups that used to live

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  then, it was one of the classes I dedicated the most time to (due to how ... budding skills. Although I learned how to use most 2-D art mediums, my favorite was always paints, particularly acrylic due to its versatility in

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  and I asked them something like, "oh, it's too late to sign up for MISTI at this point, right?" to which they said, “No, it’s not!” To be sure ... actually came down to it though, they didn’t seem to be annoyed or sad (or

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What ... students to use the music. If you like the song, or if even if you'd just like to support the band, you can download it from iTunes here. p.s. if

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  unrelated to the institution you are working at. You can imagine that that ... year that it's hard to keep my mind in school and on my psets. The ... accidentally ran four miles (I thought it was 2.5, until I Google mapped the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is ... common knowledge that I never thought to wonder about how it came to be ... his talk was that it is important to have an accurate definition of what

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  less the image of seasons that exists in my head. When it comes to summer ... "]spring[/annotation]? Spring is something different. I used to think the problem with these ... fuzzy little pods, but it only took them a couple of days to fully emerge

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  undergraduate/graduate class which uses programming to design stuff. We learned Rhinoscript, which you can use to program pretty much anything in Rhino 3D, but ... almost everyone else is kickin it into full gear to ace their own tests and

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  without the booklet as it contains, in addition to useful maps of campus and ... jumble of activities. Most of all, it is extremely difficult to define. So, I'll instead attempt to demonstrate the part of MIT that can't be

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... writing was more than a hobby, it is a passion equivalent to my love for ... email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)    

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  so long as I keep enjoying it, I can see myself continuing to hikes for ... going out and trying new things as much as I used to. It’s a feeling I ... just can't figure out how to fix it for you

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  't do that. It's like planning to bake a crisp and hoarding fruit months ... make something, do it--or decide to do it--right then. That's my advice ... Yesterday I met with Ta-Nehisi Coates to talk about writing. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013