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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago, I looked at my computer screen from a bunch of different angles, and noticed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  feel so familiar, there’s a feeling I can’t really describe. As if I ... for a reunion - I’ll run into someone else with theirs. And even if only ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --

  

  for your paper but I couldn't find it! I hope you got a phone call, I ... YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO ... guys, but the phones are kind of all busy right now so I have to wait a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  soft, and just forces you to shut up for a minute. I’ll sometimes just ... AP’s coming up OMG) I’d encourage you to all press pause for a weekend ... craziness on pause for a while has allowed me to really think about what I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  supervisions are setup within your college (another system I'll talk about in a future blog) and are where a significant portion of learning happens at Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  television as a whole. I was on the flight back from Boston, after college ... small jazz combo pieces, including songs from the [annotation note="I’m a ... my Gears A few months ago, when I was looking for something to read on

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  thorough commentary on my draft, I received suggestions from a writing ... torpex shot him from behind??” I think it’s probably a good thing I don ... coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  straight up didn't have time for anime at MIT!!! I didn't watch a single ... subtitles. I co-wrote a 200-page self-insert fanfiction about [annotation note="a ... "]Haikyuu!!.[/annotation] Hell, I'm listening to anime openings as I write this... Anime is such a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... reasons for this. For one, at this point in the semester, I had a growing ... semester. I’ve been working with a Cornell student who’s in the area for the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  long I had been dying my hair, and I faltered for a moment, realizing ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can ... put it in a ponytail. I’ll stare in the mirror for a moment, realize how

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is feeling as they process everything. I got a missed call notification

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... drive around from a basic list of materials.  By the end of lab, I ... high." For several days I iterate and iterate on a design (nicknamed

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  _n, where T_n > 5 minutes from now. A week or so ago, Becky from somewhere ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... -fresh vegetables from MIT's weekly farmer's market, I barely noticed the initial

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... . I called my dad and had him look for a while (many hours) and IM ... Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  "? I can), and I met my family away from my family at Next House. But I didn't actually apply for RBA, so it didn't make a lot of sense that I ... microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a ... , a negative evolution. Nonetheless, it is true to my soul, and I found it time to release the news publicly. Last year, I posted a crisis

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  for everyone else. I hope you do. I know you will. I'm closing ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... over the weekend, where you can visit one of MITOCs two New Hampshire cabins. Given that 90% of the gifts I received for Christmas was outdoor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  ’s oil painting "Nonchaloir". I made this as a homework assignment for 21M ... ="aligncenter" width="500"] a poster I made for MIT Gala, Infinite’s end-of-year launch ... patterns. (some of the glass was from a broken beer bottle I picked up off

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023