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• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  at the end of every day to see if I can find any patterns. I take a ... ’re supposed to be working, we’re doing the work. I can figure it out… I think ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... . (By the way, as you can tell from the number in the photo above, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring ... a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  Since all I can think about recently is graduate school, I thought I ... notes from that lecture can be found here, in PDF format. There are lots ... postdoc attempts to publish anything and everything he/she can in order to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT-vangelion: Behind the scenes! how we made the Pi Day 2023 video!

  

  didn’t know that I was going to be in charge of this year’s Pi Day video ... ’s so many weebs in this school…jkjk” but then I was like “... unless ...   dimension: time, in the form of video frames. You can do fancier things like

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  , grayest, rainiest first two days of school I can remember. Fortunately, I ... hours in lab, and C hours doing out of class work. I'll go ahead and put ... in Course VI, and many people (Jessie included, I believe) count it as

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  the email itself. I can't say I've written many good ones in my time ... people that I’m a Bomber, especially people I talked to in high school ... -standing tradition. It's so deeply ingrained in our floor history that when I visited

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  trying processes I've endured, with the anxiety of not really knowing where ... David in tow, I visited Random Hall, one of MIT's more distinctive ... . ;-) I chatted with Mike '09 in the basement, along with Antti, a prefrosh

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  ’re in an area where the tech is overemphasized, but I wanted to emphasize ... station in the project region will be set up where observers can exchange ... on bold ideas that I find MIT instills in students so well. His Hacker

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  biology is a real science (I am the only course 20 in a group of 60ish so I ... how can I make a therapy, how can I use this protein as a marker for cancer detection, how can I simulate this phenomenon on a chip, etc. I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  , in my mind, is the mega-resource.  You can go to them for just about ... get if you call 911.  In certain medical emergencies (I hear sports ... freshmen are just starting to filter in due to FPOPs or international

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  know I can only be deeply invested in so many communities, and that I ... I entered MIT, I had no idea I'd get as invested in building things as I currently am -- I wanted to inspire frosh to see what they can build

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  its embrace. I can’t seem to find better wording to describe my current ... of the labs in the tunnels. I enjoy passing by quick performances in ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  . I can tell you that the answers (in order) will be a nine-letter word ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  I don’t believe in quantum physics. Yes, I know that all the math ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... mechanical). And I suppose every chemical reaction in my body keeping me alive

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  's where I learned how to 3D print, lasercut, weld, and fiddle with electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! from post-blizzard New Jersey.

  

  , basking entirely in food and sleep. A few days after I got home, the ... . Where I live, we got 2 feet of snow overnight. The blizzard crippled transportation in the Northeast for a good few days... And I was pretty much snowed-in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 31, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  A Mentor to Remember – Patrick Winston (1943-2019) Celebrating Professor Winston

  

  prioritize togetherness (especially in a place like MIT where it is easy to ... capturing all that I want to say. Rest in Peace, Professor Winston. You were ... , Professor Patrick Winston. In my nomination of him, I wrote about the impact

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 24, 2019