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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  slapped a π on the deck because I figured it would be on-brand for MIT. And ... alternate between a variety of alternative hip hop and indie rock/punk. Week 3 ... hard feelings. It was too experimental and wasn't a great prompt for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  Necklace and our last park for the day. Of note was a brave squirrel, which ... hilly; and, c) we spent a lot of time looking at trees. The Explorers ... accidentally roundabout path. In particular, we were looking for a bonsai garden

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  myself, by myself, and with myself: going for a walk, decluttering my ... than ever. I wrestled with this sense of isolation and alienation a lot ... sprinting from class to club to friend to event and just exist for a while

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  protest. My mother, from Nanjing, China, has a green card, and so when I ... , called home for more than twenty five years. As a diverse community of ... institute-wide update on the situation and a reaffirmation of our values

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  , look for ducks, find yourself downtown and check out a ritzy hotel ... something modular!), or create a gift with the yarn and fabric supplies ... , with cake, cookies, apple cider donuts, s’mores, and more. This is a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  from both problem sets and exams. The classes were 6.042 (Mathematics for ... off for my basis, but my vectors w_1, w_2, and w_3 exactly match those ... . Comparison with Shuli This is not a perfect comparison, because Shuli and I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  . Looking back on my two and a half years here, I am most proud of my ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... for those who cannot afford education or healthcare) and Embrace (a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Joint Post] Chatting with Hank Green, the MIT Commencement Speaker interviewing Hank + sharing student stories!

  

  ’ve been a fan of Hank (and his brother John) for basically my entire ... Nerdfighteria itself. What follows is a conversation: an interview with Hank, and ... (it's now a top 3 flavor for me!). It really feels like a full

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  spinning staff for the first time and play around with it for a few hours ... met up with some friends and briefly went to a couple more housing ... orientation group for a bit and then went to Baker Horizons (which was

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  with no parachute and... I don't want to spoil it for you...okay I'll say ... share. So Sam and Gabe organized a Veterans Day dim sum dinner. We took the Red and Orange Lines to Chinatown Station and then walked a couple

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  I did learn a lot and worked as a computer technician for my school ... laptop, skip the 4GB and go for the 8GB. 16GB is a luxury.   Hard ... than and will replace them soon. So I would opt for a 128GB SSD over a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  health, and that's good enough for me. Minecraft is such a great game. god ... few weeks ago, and dedicated a few hours to laying out everything and outlining my goals for this quarantine. i also made a habit tracker for some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  of the project and our first meeting was scheduled for 3 pm EST the ... junior who had lived on campus for a year and half before [annotation note ... for this project. On the animation side, Emily and Angela already had a

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to ... . Interested students should have some experience with both hardware and software ... Just a reminder...there are a lot of new UROP opportunities for IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  restaurants for fun with friends, and maybe something cool will happen? *** The ... heckled and yelled by visiting tourists for wearing a shirt they disagree ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  Hi friends! I'm Jamie and I'm a new blogger. I'm a senior in 2A-4, (flexible mechanical engineering with a concentration in design ... probably everyone. My event was a mocktail bar where we made drinks with

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Think Pink 2011 [By Cory Hernandez, '14] G@MIT, the SAO, and Residential Life present a guide to living…

  

  knew that one was right for me. Senior Haus had a line in their i3 that ... are affiliated with said group—for instance, a student who lives at ... ('14), a political science major and a worker at MIT's Rainbow Lounge

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... through Rush at all, at least for more than a few flashy events. Those who ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  buy a succulent from a tiny flowershop bursting with greenery. As for ... for the Harvard bus, and I’ve ignored a man telling the entire bus about ... in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  for 8.01 and 3.091. By 2am, I call it quits. Still no sign of a ... when applying to colleges. I pull up the PDF and take a look. "Figure ... brother, a senior at UC Berkeley, and ask for help. As I wait for him to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015