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• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... ; in the dead of night, the gold i had woven turned out to be dust ... cry or laugh & i would put my hands in mud to make myself last &

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  what I can get from the little taqueria right in MIT's front yard. For $4 ... , parents and the I-have-to-buy-groceries?-type : there are dining dorms with ... Student Center steps. I don't know why the lighting in this photo is so

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... , but I'll try to find my peace in this sprawling city, in you.  You ... .  You make me wonder if I’d be a comic artist in another life

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to ... They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... introduced me to, and which I think about a lot MIT websites (5) "Emerson

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  back row and settled in. I saw people wearing matching bucket hats ... the class photo, I don't think my mind ever conceptualized how many ... Ring Delivery. But in the meantime, it's crazy to think that I'm almost

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  them grow. but considering how dead I am after dancing in only half the ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that had passed since I was on the team in person, and the new members we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it ... ball and I don't really understand how offsides works yet, but I figured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... research opportunities are a close second.) Put it this way: I can learn

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  , looking through my archives, I can see that we were in fact having 5 ... buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a ... becuase I don't understand quite how IMAP works on Eudora 6.2. No

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on,” I thought, “is that how liquids should behave in real life? Those ... were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , I can’t tell you how huge a fan I am of your work. I actually quoted ... questions like: “How much Force power can Yoda output?” “What would ... event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  set in and I can feel a warm blanket of drowsiness wrap around my tired ... turning in the wrong direction. 12:06 PM – I realize that I typed the wrong ... cardboard gold. Katherine and I are hot glue gunning the final version of our

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  with only one or two people. 09. I can't live without lipgloss. 10. I can ... person. 21. My first kiss was in middle school. 22. I want to go to art ... can be mean when I want to. 26. My dreams are bizzare. 27. I paint boys

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... trapped within an image. You can see it in action on the Project Naptha

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  the people I’ve met on hall, learning how to skate down in the tunnels ... Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have ... in me. I look back at who I was a month ago and it takes me some time

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  ="attachment_57638" align="alignnone" width="660"] done in high school - i can ... , like I’m 14 and can’t pay attention in geometry. I’m taking CMS.307 ... buy inks or special pens or paints, because I can just change the brush

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP programs in Madrid. I enrolled in 21L.590 Global Literature (although on ... taken Spanish Conversation and Composition in the fall semester, I thought

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  doesn't necessarily match with my 'how much work can I fit into a day ... women. How to use: Personally I would not opt to stay in a strange man ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020