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• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  ! It’s been over a month since I arrived @ MIT and naturally, I have processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in ... tour of the second half of Calculus I in six insane weeks. Now it’s the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  time-machine (film? what’s that?)....and a time-warp. The darkroom is ... long I’ve been doing each aforementioned action. It’s brainpower ... techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that ... binary relations are. It’s the way that our computers can interpret what we

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  closely related to the behavior of an elaborate function ζ(s) = 1 + 1/2s + 1/3s + 1/4s + ... called the Riemann Zeta function. The Riemann hypothesis asserts that all interesting solutions of the equation ζ(s) = 0

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  lin-manuel miranda scares me my final paper for an MIT class about musicals!

  

  the top-10 U.S. universities for humanities” sense. not that rankings ... -week-addled Allison, so uhh if anything’s [annotation note="also i was told to write ... ’m too lazy to edit it significantly now"]amiss[/annotation] let’s just

  • by Allison E. '27
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  spring! semester! so apparently i'm doing a lot of random shit

  

  because it’s a CI-H. I, uh, I needed to take one of those or I’d be put on a ... , but now that I’ve gotten used to it, I love it. It’s really, really ... thinking. We then discuss everyone’s questions in the next class. It’s a lot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Halls are Alive with the sound of mischief :)

  

  Let’s face it, MIT’s campus is not known for being the most gorgeous ... (if you look up, there’s always some array of pipes, wires, gratings ... . Again, it’s not beautiful. But I would argue that it’s something better

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening. I wouldn’t quite call it mental exhaustion. That’s already happened, and it’s gone now. It feels like my brain is constantly on pause, like

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  men’s basketball game. Harvard is an NCAA Division I program and we are DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it’s quite the event: Shot of the MIT crowd, courtesy of Maude Gull ‘19 Women’s

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  learned about interfaces. Me: What are interfaces? Dora: It’s like an ... ’T KNOW. WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW THIS? (Dora laughs) It’s just computer ... which didn’t seem super important. So then I decided not to go because it’s

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  spoilers), I have (c o m p l e t e l y p a i n l e s s l y :’-)) transcribed ... up in Boston. It’s great to come back to Boston, especially a smart ... a small commercial animation studio that was there. So I’m like “that’s

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  . It’s a story I’ve heard from plenty of people. I needed to be careful ... even say that, to suggest that other people might be envious of me—it’s like I’m claiming there’s something about me or what I have that is so

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  next to normal on mental health

  

  interesting songs, at least to me, is who’s crazy/my psychopharmacologist and i ... through mit’s mental health and counseling, is actually positive. i’ll have ... guy, and it’s been going okay i guess. i get that it’s meant to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  When it comes to Boston’s music scene, it certainly isn’t lacking ... ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film or whether you’re just listening to keep the silence at bay. Whether it’s

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  half-asleep. It’s been a while since a movie has kept me up past my internally strict bedtime. It’s been even longer since a movie has lingered with me past a good night’s sleep. Hichki (which roughly translates to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  Over the next week (or so), I’ll be publishing newspaper articles I’ve collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of 2010 (if there was a…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston’s 4th of July celebration — one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now,…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  'll love her :) p.s. a huge shout-out to Jeanne '13 who once again helped me overcome my inability to upload videos, lol... p.p.s. CPW!!!!!!!

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  popular songs on the radio, my main musical intake stemmed from my dad’s 70s ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let’s

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  because it’s not real). At this point, I’m somewhat convinced that quantum ... a ball that’s spinning, but it’s not actually a ball, and it’s not ... . “Haha, that’s a real scary-looking trash can you guys have there

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025