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• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  , this can also be a good refresher. Some of the following is specific to ... ’t be able to do much. When your MP and HP drop below a certain threshold ... . Your skill points are not how good you are at something, but rather a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  months. And of course, since Russ is a natural teacher, it's unsurprising ... above by swinging her hard wooden mallet in a circle, croquet is a vicious ... : What is it, exactly? Well, duh, it's a double chocolate gooey butter cake

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  one. :p Truth is, I have not been doing much this semester other than ... aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is ... no longer count how many people have asked me that). C. elegans is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for EA Deferred and Regular Action students your last minute questions

  

  your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how the admissions ... keep working hard!) We will also include a text box for any other updates ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  semester! AHHHHHH!" No, this IAP I'm very much not busy, and it is wonderful. A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... Internet. Anyway, here’s a YouTube video of me talking. Below it is my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... thing I suggest is getting a T-Pass. During the semester, I don't plan on

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a ... . Also, since the Hayden library is for the MIT community, there’s a much ... is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  " is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2 ... . Still a disappointing 5'2". Slightly older: Reaction ToolBox Now, our ... . I was very much aware that that was a possibility, just not a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  develop a model, and a validation set is used to evaluate how well different ... .  This may seem like a pretty simple problem. For humans, it is often ... slope. It is a testament to the human visual system that for computers

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  'm terrified to leave MIT. How do you make new friends as a new grad? What if I ... ourselves in uncomfortable positions and this is a necessary step towards ... application, I wrote a sample blogpost in response to the prompt 'What is your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself ... , on Fifth West, which is a wonderful hall filled with cats and friends

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... and Practice. Although Lupe himself has said that CMS.S60 is not a music class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever in mechanical box form and if she was a real person I think our ... him to arrive. He breaks down on a regular basis, much like MIT students

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  lot means getting a box set of 100 postcards of illustrated plants from ... from a (different) box set of 100 postcards. It features shots of 100 ... with it. I found the postcard itself in a box on the second floor of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  (dessert, pt. 1) Apple rose tarts (dessert, pt. 2) ‘Life is like a box of ... the box was the message, “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never ... much as we focus on our guests, there is a special camaraderie built

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Woodie Flowers, Nehalita asked, "Btw, how involved were you in FIRST as a ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  means a few things: spring is coming up 1/6th of the year has gone ... ="111874" /] hi!!! i'm sabrina and i'm a part BluePrint's dev team. this is my third ... cute chalked drawings on the boards. while the theme is making me a bit

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  may be familiar with the way astronomers talk about how bright a star is ... little gatekeeper: it controls how much of its respective color is able to ... wrong) then comment away. The more important part of this post is how much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  Undergraduate Economics Association (UEA) is hosting a lecture by Frederic Mishkin ... Condry, an MIT Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, is giving a talk ... So, my wife just popped by my office; it turns out she and a friend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007