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• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You ... fall. However, the residences put a lot of effort into i3 videos, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  the wired brain of some android. So, of course, I did what any MIT ... together the guts of a robot, anticipating the moment when a dozen blinking ... the misery of pounding out code in a cubicle during a sophomore

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the ... time to introduce the concept of the Fourier Transform, he gave a 10-minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... grew out of the ancient battles for Anglicanism, but rather an even more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and experiences that stand out to me. I present to you a brief highlight of the ... even though it’s packed most of the time. I also found out that vegan

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  the lure of getting to pet small kitten (you could probably kidnap me if ... can guess what happened by the name of the title. [caption id ... back, I found him hiding in the corner of my closet. As he slowly got

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  math problem that I was capable of doing in the tenth grade. These were ... the Courseroad of all the classes I took at MIT, it's hard to pick out a ... improve at over the course of time. I had binders and notebooks filled with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... unburdened by the demands of classes Step 3: Begin construction There are ... deep in the snow--you might end up with large amounts of goose poop mixed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  part) Take your favorite set of finitely many points out in the plane, i ... "shadow" of $A$ on the $x$-axis and the $y$-axis, and let's call these sets ... ="attachment_100162" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Projections of the point (x

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  like I’ve fallen straight into that movie - the newest victim of its ... take advantage of the fact that I got to live the same life every day ... the kind of work I’ve always wanted to do. But - as in every Groundhog

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  . But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately ... and Chris Peterson here -- On the Conservation of Frosh by Rachel D. ‘16 here -- On MIT culture by the hilarious Snively ‘11 here A list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what ... 'm pretty fond of some of the articles we've released: this one's about being

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  absolutely no feeling in the lower left-hand quadrant of my face. It's as if ... of the bottom quadrants of my face, the dentist leans over and does ... freshman, my summer also consisted of: Work. I started out the summer

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... one day everything will change. in finding meaning at the end of the world, i talk about the contradictory feelings of feeling powerless about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is ... still, from the standpoint of an individual class, the material is ... train people in how to acquire knowledge, which is the purpose of high

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  phone. after closing the many repeated tabs of instagram, NYT games ... of the Coffee Cow. peak art. articles (12) this is me mostly fooling ... They Developed  The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and ... in. But within a month or two of working here, I knew I'd made the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... Person. I used to eat one of these Huge Wraps on my way back to the living ... Sets, I feel empty again and must eat more. Oh! The stomach of young

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for ... empathize with the state of mind of not wanting to commit because you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while ... some of the leading scientists, theorists and practitioners who are ... /change technology to make the world less awful, and Catherine is one of the central

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020