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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  ’s very easy to take on too much. I’ll let the data and the stories speak ... may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am ... one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Past, present, and future

  

  community, students who never had the chance to live in the dorm that they ... , they get to relive their triumph to an interested audience, in the latter ... (the classes that all undergraduates at MIT are required to take), and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  a thing. As much as it's inspiring to be around the latest research ... .org"]fire-hosed[/annotation] in the face all the time. I need to detach myself from campus every ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  oh, the crash and the burn

  

  together. And the cycle repeats. I'd like to say that this is probably the ... toll on me. So much so, in fact, that I've finally crashed. So I have ... reflecting and the first place my mind went to, genuinely, was: Do I deserve

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  recreating the Monty Hall problem (anybody got two goats to spare?) writing ... : the two psets stashed in my purse :([/caption] the next day, I dropped ... the idea of only being in four classes, or forty-eight units, when

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... next to the window with the sun coming in, idolizing my new computer. I guess at the end of the day what to take away from this is just the usual

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was ... Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is really domestic. The other day, our GRT, Chris, took her to Target. When ... putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... -mates, hopefully figure out some way to use the myriad 5-cent coins I've amassed in Europe Friday -- Nothing much planned, just hanging out in my dorm room, to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  faeces in the house, in the house, and this is the rule not the exception ... reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course,is ... seven favorite words in the English language. In order, they are: 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... logical reason as I walked to Walgreens and bought the most river ... , which side is the front?), I decided to be extra careful and attached four

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach ... used to commemorate Ruth’s return. Ruth's reaction? (I think this is ... stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  clothes) and the majority of Conner 2 settled in to enjoy some good ol ... not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... getting onto the ship. This is when Jared '10 and Yuki '11 thought it would

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...

  

  , and I still have some other work to finish before sleeping. For the holiday, the MacGregor GRTs--Graduate students who are essentially MIT ... 's ignore that. This is gonna be a quick post mainly because I half

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 1, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  given to the stranger who brushes by you on the sidewalk.  In these times ... , uneven sidewalks that switch from brick to concrete in one block and the ... In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the ... Ben Jones, The Blogfather, started the MIT Blogs in 2004. The idea behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what
• Blog / Hacks

  how to get from east campus to the student center things are not as they seem

  

  leading to a ramp, but the right door is propped open and doesn’t seem to be ... ground, next to the elevators, in the long hallway; comb through the ... ’t take the fastest one. start by walking out the entrance to the dorm

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 8, 2026
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... over my test booklet and frantically tried to finish problem 5 in the allotted time, I realized just how legit the work-energy relation is in real

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• 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