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• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  heard a barely audible groan from right over your left shoulder? Students ... threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... Tech and did my bachelor's in computer science, and I used to work in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  department’s minimalist but colorful website), I decided to apply. And for a ... you're doing. In a matter of months, I’d gone from preparing to apply to ... September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be ... direction.  Frequently, the hardest thing for me to do is nothing, because I have so much more life experience than my kids have and I can envision

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a ... ="https://catmario.eu/"]Cat Mario[/annotation], I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to ... guess what I’m taking away from this IAP is that there’s a balance to be

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  ; While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from ... another friend (also from California) put it: “One minute I was walking ... of a snowstorm on Saturday. And I'm sure we'll get enough snow over the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  most refreshed. (Pro tip for recovering from sleep schedule hacks and ... that you absolutely love. Don't overwork yourself for A's that aren ... A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... because she was a fan of the professor’s work (tbh, I’ve done that too for ... On the first Friday of my last semester, I had a choice between two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... high-school I resolved to play infinite games. To find and fight for the ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  our perpetual battle with the mit weather machine spinning arts needs a shaman

  

  worked at this point, we might as well try. I don’t know where the lair of ... . I would like to think it is a short and shriveling twig casting a ... schedule the show for a day that doesn’t rain and take down the evil wizard

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  student” (if such a thing even exists!) (actually, can I just shorten this phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can’t-solve-a ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  Hello everybody! It's high time that I take a break from all the deep ... Kenoly. "super good! if I had a Time Machine you know where and when I'd be ... Fleet Foxes. "to be honest I can only name like two songs from fleet Foxes

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  greater independence. I’m a big fan of data. It can reduce complicated ... a single day (at least, for as far back as my phone’s log goes). I ... Hi, I’m Kathleen. I’m a first-year student and a new blogger here at

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  . I'm in it for two major reasons. The first is that I'm a systems geek ... I haven't posted in a long time. This is largely because I have been swamped with work. This term is a crash course in time management. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  running into Lobdell for a smoothie/soba chicken breakfast, I ran into a ... -drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... packed and a suitcase and a large duffle bag. I look out the window and see

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  ." Math: This is a challenging one. My first semester I qualified for ... in the curriculum, you can get credit for that, too. I believe that if ... myself. Had I not taken the advanced standing exam for 18.03, I might be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Falmouth, MA, an hour and a half from MIT, where there are faeries and ... K. ‘18 is from Donetsk, Ukraine, where she almost had a pet rabbit ... This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  now, I plan on focusing on where I am now, a hard working student at the ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  a fancy title for A More Complete Version Of Big Bang Theory ... been my advisor for about a year. He told me to call him Alan. During ... wrote down a list of all the classes I was considering, worked out pros

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014