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• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  separate drafts before I decided to make my roommates Fatima and Nora do the ... " and "Wilson's Friend"), draw faces on them, and then duct tape them to ... Vincent Van Growgh, and then eat a sandwich in front of Sandwich to instill

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... stomping ground. There is a beauty to the desert that you cannot see unless you grew up here, a hardness and a hardiness to everything that lives

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to ... that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... shoes and vowed "never again." 2) For some reason, I have been wanting to ... halfway up the mountain, legs and throat on fire, clothes soaked through to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  be straightened. Engineers decided that the best solution would be to ... over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea of "Bring a flash drive to Italy, then we can go to internet cafes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... to replicate my favorite cuisines from around the world. That, however

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  depression. One is “anhedonia”, or the inability to feel anything, unable to ... feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness is, or how to go about acquiring it. The other type of depression is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time as any to ... decision? What more would you like to know about MIT? What are your lingering concerns? Etc. Look out... this one's going to be lengthy, and I'm not even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  Earlier this year, I had planned to write a blog post testing whether it’s possible to train a machine-learning model to learn Course 6’s new class numbering system. It would’ve been so cool – I was going to code up

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 people from MIT and Brown University to walk the Walk again. I was super ... came down to crash at Brown. The students at Brown found us all nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines. You rose closer with the sun today, shivered on the way to lab, the ... , forgot half the holes and channels. You set to fixing it, blinking through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to ... immediately. I couldn't go to the market myself since I had something going on at that time, but I asked my friend Tiffany L. '24 to get a strawberry

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and ... really want to take the time to reflect on everything I've learned ... .034 Artificial Intelligence, 21G.704 Spanish IV, CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving ... of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... on our refrigerator, listing all the dishes that had to be made. It

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  has been A Week™. Freshmen aren't invited back to campus this semester ... —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my parents and get to know other people within a pandemic pod. It’s really

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  online-submission platforms I've used. It comes down to the grading system ... Regrade" button and a little text box appears where they can write a note to ... hypothesize that the discrepancies were just due to different graders. To sort

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Media That Makes Me Feel Okay School's out! Time to get distracted :D

  

  confusing if I didn’t tell you that I made the last-minute decision to move back to my hometown for the summer. For those who’ve been following my blogs, I actually moved to Maine with some friends when we first got

  • by Powers '23
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  the first, second, and third installments, in case you want to read them ... time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... way to much stuff, re: our hoarding tendencies, re:re: this post

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even ... beautiful, detailed paintings of landscapes, while others are abstract to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018