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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  of genius at age three or four. After returning from visits to the ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of 2003, the MIT News Office did a series of these articles called "Hometown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  lot of health campaigns as well as water testing at the source, although ... school in Dalebrun, at the epicenter of the earthquake, to work with the ... kits to potentially teach some of the children at the school how to test

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the ... hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  Spoilers: there's a picture of an awesome cake at the end of this ... frats. I wasn't signed up to play, but at 7:30 one of our players told me ... , because I'm super hosed...so lots of fast typing and zero editing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  Classes start tomorrow! today! I started writing this at 11:55PM and ... of time. I've also grown an "idgaf if you think I'm stupid, I'm just ... improved my state of mind. And honestly, there isn't a single class that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ungodly hours Wednesday night finishing the 18.02 pset that was due at 1 PM on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  As Vincent mentioned, the MIT Class of 2019 freshmen are currently out and about enjoying their first week orientation at MIT. During ... navigating their first year at MIT. This year I'm excited to be an orientation

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... just to provide a more comprehensive look at what MIT has to offer. Here ... News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... charged me at the top of the Gap, when there was still wifi, and when at the ... Magically [annotation note="university wifi, typically found at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  , clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week ... spending a lot more time in 2E at Next House lately. Questions of where I ... sorely missing at MIT. The sharing of art that came from the individual in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  get back at it. So among a bunch of other goals, I told [annotation note ... 10k, I could run half of that where I’m allowed to stop at obstacles ... a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  at this ungodly hour while I was in the process of training to become ... Memorial Drive at 2 in the morning. I grew attached to the feeling of being ... One of the first things I did when I got to MIT was join the campus

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  at mit. At the end of my junior year, I was left with a really big ... of Hadestown. I woke up at 7:30am and showed up at the venue at 8am to ... room. Here's a photo of me in front of the stage. At the end of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  party as part of my birthday festivities. i love sunrises lol ... ’re not up lol (okay if not, just thought to offer) I'll probably be awake ... bed I had a weird series of naps What are you up for? Ah I see Not for

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to ... over the course of winter break. I am left thinking: I hate change. A

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at ... each other while taking a break from psets late at night.  All of ... Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I ... the basement of the student center, and use it to buy food at dining ... , and it doesn't run out at the end of the semester, either - it just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my fraternity home was pelted with snow. Seriously, look at the view from our ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015