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• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world, where everything is absolute. A view of the world where I feel if I don ... I’m always afraid that one of these prompts will send the story

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free ... a “super long break” with the incorporation of IAP, but everyone who

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  The Proposal One part hack + two parts romance = Lobby 7 love!

  

  Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book: One of my favorite

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  day for the past week, probably because of the abundance of natural ... -the-fuck-out-of-my-house-and-find-a-UROP frenzy. I really like the work ... video that illustrates our different floor cultures, and I'm one of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MITblogs: The Next Generation Look ma, a hack!

  

  Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website: mymit.info And, of course, where would be without a little help from

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  bear vitamins, discovered the necessary evil of laundry, watched the sun ... stared out the window, as trees, jaywalkers, and Starbucks stores passed by. After what seemed like forever, I arrived on the MIT campus, duly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of ... + 10,480 mi MISTI Internship - Santiago, Chile Fast facts: One of the ... version of the Google Translate app, and you’re good to go. Of course

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of ... . Yesterday was the grand opening of the biggest Apple store in the US, and ... week ago - congratulations though, since one of the brakes on that bike

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... these blogs!). Back to the help desk for most of the afternoon. At 5PM, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  here at MIT.  We’re both active members of the dance community; we joined ... cultural art that this group aims to celebrate; the team performs at lots of ... a form of dance that features squats, jumps, and lively music. The

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school ... classes (Course 2) and filling in the rest of my schedule with classes in my ... the motion of polyatomic molecules) -Linda Griffith (a Biological

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in a place with such a plethora of opportunities. In the fall of my ... focused environmental group run out of the [annotation note ... offers in hand. Both were good. One would start with analysis of water

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Women of the East Side 2015 Calendar The stresses and strains of organizing a giant project

  

  the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly ... project where we would test a feature of the Hodgkin and Huxley model. My

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is CSAIL?

  When people think of MIT, they think of computers, robots, and internet—CSAIL is all of those things. The Computer Science and Artificial ... of the world’s most important centers of information technology
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... meters. Later, I realized that this is where the coach put all of the ... in all of HS track was to scrape by and qualify for the away meets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  , depending on the time of my earliest class on a given day, I have three to five hours to do anything I please. The lack of social distractions make ... like I'm the only person awake. In reality, around 10% of MIT wakes up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... first move in, one of the first steps in making East Campus your home is ... the most tangible example of this. One of the first things my roommate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  consuming large amounts of junk food. Well, that was the plan, and we did in ... on one of the New Year's party hats that were decorated by the 6-year ... ...make a lot of noise. That's when my oldest cousin whipped out the silly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007