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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... dampness, perfect for piercing flashlight beams and a spirit of discovery. Or ... out there for the sake of all you adventure-y dreamers out there. Unless

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  process what happened on Friday, so for now I'll just show you some pictures ... for them all anyway. I pushed my way to the muffin baskets, which were ... for the bathroom. I was in the last group allowed to use the facilities

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  cooked up the idea for this adventure. In the following Q ... conversation has been slightly edited for length. How did the idea come about ... sad or painful experience for many of my friends. How terrible! Learning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  ended up looking at the sunset for about 15 seconds more than I would ... , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... lecturer is universally recognized for never sitting down, among other

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  discourages filesharing." So the Olympics just finished up. I didn't get a ... were amazing. I looked around on YouTube for a clip but just couldn ... tube-age? BitTorrent! I surfed around on The PirateBay for a while and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  that I now have time to dedicate to. This summer, I've been working for ... to our central goal of developing a high throughput bioreactor for ... stay at MIT for grad school if you were an MIT undergrad. So hopefully

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... early models had the phosphates lined up on the inside, which didn't quite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as ... for almost ten years and I've participated in national competitions and ... :]." Ariadne, I've arranged for you to be contacted this weekend by Nicki '07

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  market scene is just beginning to liven up. Crowds of people are shuffling ... for the ride, whether it be to try a new cafe or jam at a concert. Those ... most may take a quick glance, but soon after get caught back up in their

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  , three expectedly busy weeks. I’ve gotten sick for a brief period, seen ... (turning in p-sets and the like), prepared soup for everyone. It shouldn’t be ... storyteller I possibly could be. High school was a period of full bloom for me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  up by swordsmen breaking down your door? Lost sleep while craving for ... recognized me and asked for a sticker because of something I said a year ago ... building up of a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that ... prompted me, hungry for more text. The slightly chilly breeze is blowing in ... prior. I hear Kayla '12 get up in the room next to mine, and she soon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  appreciated the grading scheme for the class—fixed grade cutoffs with 20 “extra ... extra credit project for this class, I attended a panel where I got to ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  less a zombie for that. Speaking of which, sleep is very important ... important things include saving this cookie for Selena[/caption] I mention ... , and ended the semester with new ideas for my existing stories and a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  semesters, I’ve taken 43 classes, totaling 510 units, for an average of about ... for a MIT student (compared to the required 8 classes), but it’s mainly ... applying Pass/No Record grading so that the F doesn’t show up on my

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  last year, i lived in simmons hall. simmons is known for many things ... things for granted. you take it for granted, for example, that your room ... direction with every sunset, even during the winter. you take it for granted

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  [annotation note="for example: a close up of Character B as they say something ... that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... , Described by a Frosh," and Day 4 - "MIT for Book Lovers ... had to give up my interest in mathematics. I simply applied it to other

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  Virginia, the most important city in the world that night for all I cared ... hyperenergetic refueling station for the 2009 Mystery Hunt team members as we ... explicable context. For two protein-deprived days, I had lived off the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  academic masochist. Wait, what's that? You like doing all that work for ... have a chance a college. In the end, it's what you did for the love of ... good at this in high school (doing what I love, not working for The Man

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007