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• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  today (August 12), minus a few hours where I'm eating food or have a ... Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time ... problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Since its founding in 1861, MIT has been a special place for ... . What is there to study here that isn't Technology? It turns out, due to a fatal loophole in the founding charter, that you can actually study

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... groaned about what a lame pun that was. On a slightly unrelated note, the ... over the years, he confides, "By the way, I didn't go to MIT."  

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  It's 2am, I'm up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MIT's yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  it! I'm glad that I wrote a lot more than I normally would have, pushed myself a little, and created some nice words. This also shows me that I don't ... You might have heard of inktober, a recent phenomenon where artists

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  working and you can unravel it later (you can't); a questioning about ... just wear a T-shirt and shorts instead the feeling of making a one ... they didn't already know about; the adventurous feeling of buying a book

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  '08 was a huge fan of hers. I don't know how that's even possible ... Barrel staff and her friend Barbara. Even today, over a month later, I'm ... -the-street neighbors. I DON'T KNOW if they have it already, but I'm sure that they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  course I didn’t want to sacrifice a single hour in Taiwan, so I decided to ... while that I don’t get “selected” by the TSA for a spot check, because ... traveling with friends who didn’t want to eat. On a very rare occasion, the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  EC fort site during build[/caption] Except, I'm not really a builder ... My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  before it can be sold, because supply chains don’t have a way of figuring ... at the beginning of the semester i wrote a post where i mentioned ... comprehension that it was indistinguishable from magic. that turned out to be a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  blogging muscles are a little rusty and my memes could be spicier, but even when I'm not overflowing with creativity, I've found that being sincere ... (because there will never not be stress when you've poured your heart into a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  , and I couldn't have picked a better place to celebrate my birthday or ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem ... students will develop a community among their peers, facilitated by MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  place so far, which is okay because I'm a host and not obligated to be ... It feels a little strange seeing CPW from a host's perspective this year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  ' days of my childhood all in ways related to MIT. Exhibit A: TOMB ... Barracudas anyone? So I got to go to Tomb last Friday for a friend's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  screen, stifles a yawn* What I'm actually doing is a wild variety of ... ?" "..."   And so we did. (Sorry, it wasn't actually a ... where I'm pretty sure the FBI has a file on our dorm. Did you know

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three-month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  they promised, so I don’t really have any specific gripes or praises. I’m ... sale prices[/caption]   (4) good classes I’m sure but I just wasn’t ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  Tech: The M.I.T. Symhony orchestra will be heard for the first time under ... was early, I still wasn’t able to get a seat to the standing ... Banjos & Basements: A Brief History of Music at MIT Music has

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... find a few ways to pass time. I wrote. I wrote a lot. I taught

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013