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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about ... school is what most people would associate with the art – following step ... intricate structure. The Five Intersecting Tetrahedra (FIT) is one of my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  : "I'm not the art kid anymore or the reading kid or the science kid. I ... [/annotation] not because of the scientific content but because I genuinely enjoy ... reading kid, part of the science kid, but I am still learning, and that is

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... ’t sound like a big deal? Oh, it is. Many distance runners around the nation ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  As the name implies, this is going to be a tier ranking of all thirty ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest ... Peterson) This is actually tied for second with the rap class. I loved this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  familiarity with the material is around the same as yours, and then it takes ... ’ve heard the refrain: it's what makes the late nights worth it! But it is ... work under a Principal Investigator (PI)—a professor who is the head of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  anything before it. None of this is the case at MIT. The students at MIT ... Something very important happened on Friday. The final report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons was released. The

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  the course of the year was that at MIT, they're not like what the movies ... fraternities and 5 sororities. The fraternities make up the Interfraternity Council, and the 5 sororities make up the Panhellenic Association. When I

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and ... reflection. Though the focus is statistical physics, the class delves into more ... of the formalism used is the same as in quantum mechanics, even though

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  i've never done misti, which is mit's international experience thing. i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  : is this the way you expected your college life to be A: i mean, i guess ... ? B: i mean, that's the dumb kind of fun B: it's not really fun A: wow A ... all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  .01L. I opted not to go to the review session because I was just too ... nothing on the quiz, not because I knew it so well. C'est la vie. Friday ... the untimely death of Bill Murray. It was good. Now it is a new day. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  head, telling me that this is my journey, not hers. Every day, I see the ... loss of your first pet is the worst heartbreak of all. During this ... , but it seems that every time I see them, the harder it is to say goodbye

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  blogs on here, the post I think about the most is: “Be yourself or create yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the ... When I think about my time at MIT, my first thought is: it still

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  i was sick when i wrote this :( a largely unedited post where i ramble about getting covid

  

  before the semester starts is not a vibe. Wednesday wasn't the worst day ... the hallway. Which is great. My appetite was also coming back again ... It finally happened. I got Covid. Right at the last week of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  harder, with no benefits in exchange; the intent is that you just get ... really excited for it at first. the first day of golf class is tomorrow ... me housing. unfortunately, this is not a normal summer. i was offered a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda silly tradition, here is a picture of my old room. the move was ... 's been gone. so one of the themes the game touches on is what it's like to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm ... A typical day in East Campus. Okay, it was not quite typical. It was a little abnormal. It was Halloween. I was surprised to see the lack

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is ... be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  “Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not ... the round feel distinct. Crisp, in a way. “My favorite supervillain is ... . “That is correct.” My heart snagged on the gap between her words. I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  them, unlike the time when there were not one, not two, but FOUR crying ... square one. :) The thing that keeps coming back to me, though, is that I ... Dora the Explorer is coming to town, or something, but if that's true I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007