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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... a total lie. It all depends what the letter stands for. Well, I'm not ... should be a little interesting, maybe. 21M.705: The Actor and the Text You

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of Algorithms), one of the classes I'm taking the semester. We have a test coming up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  a hobby of some sort, but in all honesty I was very unsure of what ... ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... dances when I discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  prospect of consuming 365 new albums in a year. what if I found it tedious ... have a meager recollection of. I was so eager to check off my next ... myself. in terms of tracking music, I was too lazy to develop a rating

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour ... this for a very layered and dense funk groove. Before I knew it ... minute of this stream for a good laugh). It's different from what I'm used

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  is a weekend? I need coffee. I never drank coffee before this ... services' office, GECD. That was beyond cool. While in NYC, I also got a ... November, and I didn't get a chance to check out their office when I was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... bed, and this is what I saw: Very pretty, isn't it? =) Now that I was ... , but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... games. What I’m interested in is fan cultures, Internet studies, and ... savings—so romantic—and money I’d won in a writing contest at MIT the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even ... for a whole day. Breakfast: I love Frosted Flakes. Really I do ... meal right beforehand. I usually end up having a small snack about an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ...   So there I was, messaging a few friends about things and in one ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  's anyone who's ever been fine, it's me. See, I have not been sick in over a ... precisely what one should never do in situations like these and ignored it ... As I've discussed on this blog before, MIT MedLinks are awesome. Got

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• 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

  

  will result in vortex shedding, but I’m not sure what happens when you ... Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... digits of pi? Or maybe there's a mysterious tradition that even I don

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

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... and I try to outline what a feminist approach to data science looks like ... students interested in this field should read? OK I have to say Data

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  , when I was a kid. I learned to fight because that’s what we do. I was ... sensible."]a callback to last year's post.[/annotation] But then I decided ... the jump, ask yourself: "Why does this thing I'm writing have to be a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . ...got a job for the first time. In fact, I got two. Having never worked a day in my life before, I was really nervous to actually start. The week before I came to MIT, I got the position to be a web-based research intern

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  in just the way that you imagine you will now, just like I will. Check ... There is a whiteboard in Ben's office which was apparently once used ... with a bat." -Christina '10 "It must be finals week!" -Ben Why am I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  study biology for a while. Some of this stems from living in Next House. I ... before the age of 14, I’m a published scientific author, and I’ve done well ... I discovered that I did actually enjoy math for what it was; a series

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  speaker. We just walked and jammed without a care in the world. - Another ... basically the only ones walking, and then we saw in the distance, a 60ish ... strange, because we usually never see them there or together in such a large

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  . But not me. I didn’t have a clue what Jewish music was. I didn ... ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... Jewish, but a few (such as me) aren’t. Many of our songs are in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011