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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  a huge fan of things. Like, I tend to consume content in a way that is ... thing I’ve ever seen that reliably leads to creative success on the ... weirdest, most interesting thing that has ever happened in the known universe

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  clean it is, I'll sit on it if I want to"]sat down on the floor[/annotation]to ... , then your phone is gonna crash. Oops. So I've been using the break to ... 't notice during the semester is that I no longer, apparently, seem to think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  (-23C), although most of the winter is much warmer. Boston is a lot more ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... -- after all, the actual words given to nouns in spoken languages are also a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons ... like toads."]story.[/annotation] The back yard is still mostly weeds

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  , soaking in the last few glimpses of blue sky (oh no, winter is coming), it ... filled with SO MUCH LIFE. I’ve turned in a total of 15 problem sets. I ... brushless motor. I’ve finally learned how to properly breathe in Yoga. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  you could say the goal is to end up in a future where people have data ... discussions is that, in most cases, the person selling out never truly believed ... questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  solution to work through even the most impossible-looking scenarios- the ones ... long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... real anymore. Case in point: at this very moment, snow is falling from

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back ... 've decided that the entire process in selective schools' admissions is based on ... perfect, most attractive and largest fish in the lake. You have no idea what

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem ... Cormick Hall :) To begin with, here's the front - in all its December snow ... a 50% discount at all the dorm dining halls (in addition to a $300

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  Life is good will try to break the Guiness World Record for most lit jack-o-lanterns at the Life is good Pumpkin Festival! In addition to jack ... -Conner Apple Bake: Win as much as $500 for your floor, the most prize money ever

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  late to find an internship in another country right now, which is cool ... , I'm pretty sure I know where I left it in the cabin, so I just have to wait until the cabin is inhabited again so I can ask people to look for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... 'll admit the line is a bit fuzzy in some cases. Consider, for example, 12 ... archetypes, if you will: [annotation note="Because of how I chose to divide the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  life, so much so in fact, that for the rest of this week, I am no longer ... from the Student Center to the abode that is Random Hall. Beyond our ... . If you're asking yourself, "Should I go to Thing X?" the answer is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous ... that Gettysburg was, in fact, the most important battle of the Civil War

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  all the way to a laundry machine and put it in the laundry machine and ... cook myself and I’ve survived this much, but props to the people who can ... . Words cannot describe how much I miss the In-N-Out Double-Double with

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  Miserables. Jerome gives me a ride to work most mornings, but the night after ... barbecue to celebrate the 4th of July. This is virtually unjustifiable ... the international crowd seemed to pretty much expect everything else we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  timestamp links to skip ahead to that point in the video: Silver team: fire ... process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying ... 's scrambled eggs tutorial and threw some cream cheese in. The trick is to 1 ... 's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  somewhat similar experiences, it is easy to just stay in the international ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... heavier winter clothing and buy it once you get to Boston, that is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... asked I've been think, most of the UROPs I've read about are in biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006