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• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  the best parts about a sitcom is that you can tune in at any moment. So ... ready and the activation energy is simply too high.”    (in lieu of ... “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors ... masks we had to wear during Sleep No More (which is by far the ... = their age + 1 (the 1 is for good luck!) 15) Invitations to an art show

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... times I feel a lot of pressure.  But for the most part, when people find ... each day in front of pretty microscopes and pieces of metal. The other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and is visible from Boston across the river. MIT hackers have long used the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  equate to the fifth grade math curriculum in Florida, so we especially ... mostly not talking to anyone outside of class, gave us the reputation of ... cycle where we were trying to go under the radar by hiding in our shells

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  getting paid to sit in a place that generated so much joy. I love my UROP ... 'm going to NR 8.01L. The final is tomorrow. I've touched a little bit of the ... 's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... the very best of luck wherever you choose to continue your education

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  . Everything is more dramatic at 2 in the morning. The scanner in CopyTech was ... work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my ... , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• 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 ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... semester to do so. But this is a great class. Honestly one of the hardest

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  other professions. It is a hazard in the same sense ride-sharing was a ... . And if the reader is a robot that wants to feed upon my dangling ... their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The return of photos to my blog!

  

  according to him this failed), watches them in the background. And now ... . Ross '09 is a bum. Diandra '06 (in the front) is something undead...the ... a while since I put any pictures in this blog - I want it to be

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  contemplate what it is like to be a “woman at MIT.” The only differences that I ... the opportunity to live in McCormick Hall (an all-female dorm.) If you ... “two body problem,” which is explained in the article as the challenge of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... from actually loving it enough to achieve mastery. Playing the violin in ... will be what the wolf in this song is - domesticated, and a thing of the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... “What inspired you to draw your design” question in the submission form, I ... that they resonated with? To be fair, I wasn’t entirely lying in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  a while. Conner 2 is the adorable youngest daughter, outfitted in a ... So, in my dorm, there seems to be this really close, almost familial ... parents' favorite child. Then Conner 3 is like is the red-headed middle boy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  -related conversation, which is enough time to exhaust most of the finer points of that ... most of the interns who have been here for three to five months are ... guys who didn't live in the dorm but nevertheless wanted to get to know

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... of being in the Navy, when push comes to shove I knew that the guys on ... comrades on the battlefield, just as we did that morning in dodgeball. It is

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it ... Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs.  They weren't just any birds: they were Angry Birds. In 2.009, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011