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• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... delivered pretty much the most amazing musical experience I've ever had. 6. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  after a governor in a hotel lobby gave us tickets to the show.  We also ... who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I ... much work I had. Hearing the phrase "I'm six-one" began to mean

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or ... , which is one of the reasons I like it so much :) [annotation note ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  create something more grand to welcome people to the floor, given that most ... and was happy to see not only that the mural is still intact, but that ... about them here), but this is arguably one of the most striking ones

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... 's interesting! The process of getting to an answer is grueling, but figuring out how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  ! Our best and brightest! Go change the world! In contrast to those vague ... reality. The world is so much bigger than your hometown, your high school ... without works is dead.[/annotation] The adage followed me to MIT, where it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  questions, is interesting. That's because MIT has the most insanely ... presenting kids with pre-designed robots/devices/projects, the goal is to provide kids with the tools to develop their own fun and innovative toys in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  but god, this semester is not what we all wanted it to be. So all the ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be in tune with.  And I guess I want to feel the lows, although I don

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  ="aligncenter" width="1504"] I intend to set the record for "most complicated graph in an ... 2021 to now: CJ Q. '23. CJ is, well, me. I'm currently living in the room ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... /astro major, and course 16 is generally considered one of the most difficult ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... things that I prided myself in the most before coming to college. Maybe it ... complicated problems. I chickened out of - or did poorly - in most of the very

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  brings us to the number 42. According to Wikipedia: "42 (forty-two) is the ... Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"   To me, 42 is the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  lot. Next to every building is a deep groove in the concrete caused by ... was nothing to lose in trying. Lesson 1. Google is awesome. I searched ... Atlantic rainforest. REGUA is part of the Atlantic rainforest. Most of this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus ... looovve In the Heights so much - it's such a beautiful show about a Hispanic

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  . The essay collection I started this summer and brought to MIT with me is ... favorite ideas that I've come across in the collection is the rejection of ... have much to learn from the world around us. My friends and I joke that

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  is way too much data for the human brain to process. Levinthal is also ... the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  time spent painting in the welcome center is a much-needed and ... Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... augmented reality to their tunnel murals, and four years later the club is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014