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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... , a song referencing sirens luring sailors to their deaths. To be fair ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lunt-2mwfc It’s not a huge departure from what I usually spin to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  headed to the airport, where we had a reservation to rent a car. Texas ... -filled time, a time to relax, hang out with your friends, and have the ... "]Miami.[/annotation] Instead, we came up with a somewhat unorthodox plan: we'd fly to New Orleans

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  hours while people tried to figure out where to buy a ring. And perhaps ... One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... to a fraternity or sorority, and only 2 are from the east side of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... pendulum for brave prefrosh to take a ride in. You can see the double

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... , then. In software engineering, we have a whole toolkit to make changes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  may have heard of. Towards the end of the year, we also got a chance to ... current lack thereof. Second, every MIT student has to pick a HASS concentration, and I want mine to be writing! It'll give me a little break from

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  write once a month or so to tell you what we’re thinking about, working on ... to getting to know you. To tell you a little about myself, I’ve had ... terrific universities (including MIT). I never aspired to have a career in

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  November, I particularly struggled to find motivation. It's odd; a break from ... pervasive struggles during the fall had to do with finding motivation. It wasn ... energy it took to do all these things was always quite a bit. It didn

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  . Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that Course 1 allows me the opportunity to participate in a program such as this

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  fact, if you are able to get his or her email address, why not drop a ... convictions yet open to suggestions. Bend like a reed in the wind. If not, you ... relationship that lasted almost 20 years. How proud was I to visit Cardozo as a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel, or a way to sink free time, to pursue things i find interesting like ... -conscious about how often i make blog posts. my ideal is to make a post once a week

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  ’s as good a weekend as any to visit. I stop by Random Hall, where Kevin ... two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset of sorts, a time to renew life-changing resolutions, to pursue a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... creative collaboration. It is a good balance to the 19th-century image of the ... Today after the admissions info session in Kresge (where it also took

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  . Wondering if you have space to squeeze in an astronomy elective? Add it to a ... ... … which, due to a bug in the system, wasn’t actually mine at all, but ... graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  see here is just a beginning; we will be eager over time to find new ... This is just a quick blog post to tell y'all that there is a new ... aesthetic: a single “Spotlight” image surrounded by links to sites

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the ... Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  basics of color opponency To understand this, you will need a color wheel ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason ... eyes do. A camera is more sensitive to brights than to darks, so if it

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

  choosing the abridged version

  

  is one fact i am absolutely certain of: i want to live in a world where ... statistics wherever i go. but where will i learn how to be a better research ... afterwards i can find a different field to work in i’m also still pretty sad

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... that they’d drive me to places I’d want to go. So, I didn’t feel a ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  , the experience did inspire me to learn a lot more about feet and walking ... each have 26 bones and a ton of joints and muscles to provide balance and ... ” suffer from a lot of hindsight bias so i will try to avoid doing so but

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021