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• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be ... 've been having a crisis over whether to go to grad school or not. And as ... MIT, but still go on to do an MEng, or do a multi-year grad program

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  to alignment, so even a tiny misalignment (e.g., from breathing too ... just so oddly satisfying to me."]there are fixed slots where the ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  —it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you ... a radio show, such as having full access to the entire record library ... you’ll be exposed to! I've discovered quite a few interesting

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  excellent time doing the things we can never find time to do during the ... : I had to take a break from exercise during the fall semester for ... was as good as I expected, but I was surprised to also find myself  more

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US ... , Girona[/caption] 9/8/2025 Dear blog, Last night, I arrived to Figueres ... the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... unnerving. I went to a presentation yesterday. It was meant to shock CEOs ... edge of what is survivable? Do we plant our cacti where there used to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  slideshows where you have to click to load the next page for a single image ... adopt exponential notation to denote level of friendship. I.e. A "friend ... example: "I was going to go to that convention with my friend, but a lot of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to ... my bus only came every twenty to thirty minutes. So I stepped onto a ... wondering…was there another way to get to and from work? A week or so

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use ... welcome them to convocation in Cambridge this fall, where they will join the ... than a job: it is a privilege and an honor. We are grateful to have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering ... had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... distinct change from Hanoi where emission controls don’t seem to exist. I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  situations where they could pass as white.  But I want my kids to grow up in a ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... screenshot of course notes: This relates the NYC subway line to a concept ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back ... door button was right next to a lot of other important buttons on my i ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... would love to help you through admissions, but we expect a little work on ... to have at least read an entry or two, maybe explored the website a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  This is, admittedly, a kind of quickly written post, but I wanted to ... students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords ... about selling string bracelets to raise money? I did this with a group in

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A speech, of sorts

  

  my feelings on where we are and where we need to be going, and why ... unlikely to have a real, direct impact. MIT gave me that outlet. Here, I can ... don't think of or look to the UA as a mechanism for solving them. I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  from a pleasant distraction to a moderate disturbance, but to me, it was a reminder of why I had come to love Simmons so much over the last two ... , and they responded with a level of excitement that I’ve come to expect

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  where we want to be. R: Which is? Where do you want to be? B: Taking it a ... hygiene, and there was no way i was going to maintain such a long streak ... took a break from school that spring to do an internship, i told people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be ... laundry, and have a place to sleep. You'll actually be living here and will ... Newbury Comics, my new all time favorite store. Where I picked up a copy

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end ... . (If you just want a list of the translations, you can find them here ... TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026