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• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... festivity. The Moon shall glow ablaze, like a dragon’s eye, A drop of scalding ... moonlight’s full, Only at the BLOOD MOON FESTIVAL." FRANK: I'm just going for

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  -day fever dream. Here’s a diary of everything that went down during GELcamp ... coordinate the GEL1s. Check out their website to learn more! Our journey to ... build a solar farm to help offset MIT’s carbon emissions! Half the time we

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hi again (and goodbye) (For real this time!)

  

  the MIT Media Lab’s then-called Learning Initiative. In 2018, I started ... farewell post?  Let’s start with the easy things, the stuff that hasn ... renovation last year (losing Verdes and Anna’s! RIP), still kind of has that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music studies class about “Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys.” and it’s AWESOME

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... . In fact, as part of MIT’s[annotation note="General Institute ... .000 discovery course,[/annotation]it’s a lot to keep up with.  I was also

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  hairdressers happily babbling about mundane (but riveting) gossip and some 2000’s ... ’m actually a little reckless with my hair, all things considered. It’s been ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  Kerry, Ireland. It’s the launching point to walk the Kerry Way, a nine-day hike around Kerry. This is also my only stop, as it’s the only hostel ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  I think my suckiness at Smash is interesting because it’s probably not ... probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe it is - I’m not sure that it’s necessarily the most disciplined

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York

  

  , in classic MIT student tradition, I crammed a year’s worth of self ... , quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... love hearing people’s conversations. Before you @ me for eavesdropping

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 28, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  from roads and sidewalks, and are about 5 feet wide, so there’s space for ... objects here, they just lock the back tire to the frame. It’s a little ... away from home. Sometimes it’s [annotation note = "well… warm anyway

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... “distance” between two words. Word lists and data come from Google’s corpus of newspaper articles. There’s fun linear algebra and NLP and linguistics things

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  printed on semi-trucks, Fry’s and Coke and Target, coming in to the city ... , two of my sisters shared a room, and my other sister’s room could only ... like growing up in the old house, as we called it, but that’s a different

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele ... a poisoner and an architect’s apprentice. I’m a little nervous about

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight ... after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town’s ... . Except it’s not that simple. Some days, I wake up at 8 by some messed

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I ... email filters you make, somehow, emails will flood in like a tsunami. It’s ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  into a relatively short and sequential summary of a character’s formation ... . I promised myself I wouldn’t look back ever again. It’s so simple ... such a clear "because x then y" format. But it’s also filled with

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  ? So, picture this: you’re running a marathon (a metaphorical one, there’s ... "]real life.[/annotation]Let’s say you’re having a really good semester, whether ... leading up to that point, is like it’s own sprint, too. Life after, the jobs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , students have raised concerns about the nature of MIT’s relationship with ... .    The Tech has published numerous articles criticizing MIT’s ties to ... the Institute’s decisions, to ask them: Why we should all be invested

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Moms We stand on the shoulders of giants....!!

  

  : My Mom mom and I in Shanghai! Yesterday was Mother’s Day, so I thought ... similar to MIT’s 8.01/8.02). My mom also made sure I knew all the basic life ... it well! For those of you that don’t know, behind the scenes, there’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  many classes, it’s because I accepted early sophomore standing, which ... that involve a lot of algorithm analysis and proof writing, but it’s also ... can’t see an electron whizzing around in space in E&M), but it’s

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018