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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  collapsed — that is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very ... : Daniel Pauly and Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean, 2003. --- What happened ... otherwise known in the course catalog as 12.000 - Solving Complex Problems, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... recently completed one, which I finished a month ago is also multipurpose

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Rush photos

  

  . In this case, a picture really is worth a thousand words, so I'll let ... rider in motion, but I did get a picture of this rider who was about to ... from right after Dorm Rush ended. We had a picnic in the courtyard, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... thought it was a real video mixed in as a sanity check for labelers. [video ... ) that minimax is not perfect. However, it only ever fails in extremely

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  companies, is what a day as an intern is like. What would I be doing, who ... decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in ... another friend 2 while friend 1 was in a meeting 7:15 pm – took the bus to

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... cheerleading practice with me -- she was a cheerleader in high school, so coming ... in high school. My dad was a football/basketball/baseball star. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  was not recorded and is not relevant. The experiment was conducted in a ... . That got me thinking. MIT students are in general used to a history of ... which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  house in 2013.  $11k down gets you a $205k house.  As my house was nearing ... 2015 I accepted a job in Fort Wayne, Indiana and left my job in Oregon ... Mac, typed in my credit card info, hit submit, and all of a sudden I had a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just ... in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... ) for each blog post. Then, I can view my list of blogs in a table, kanban

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no ... , writing and discussion." but I find this definition is lacking in a few ... material a walk in the park and who took two days out of the week, and a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  side of the keyboard; the A key, however, is another story entirely. It ... just spent an hour making, I'm sitting in a chair listening to Pandora and pushing the button that opens the front door. Working desk is a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... . That shift in mentality is honestly what has kept me sane in being a ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  are on this topic, a good thing to keep in mind is that when you do call ... know one EC who told me that some of her applicants’ emails wound up in ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lonely but exciting road and choosing to traverse it

  

  listening to cellophane by FKA twigs. cellophane is a vastly depressing song ... a deeply sad person. Who knows? Regardless, after cellophane played ... something, have to move forward, bring the world forward somehow. Maybe in a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • April 14, 2026
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... 'pretty cool', I mean this: Splash is a program lasting for one weekend ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  assisting me in weeding out who's a friend and who's foe, it also helps me ... - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... "Kim", who apparently won lots of money and an "academic biography in Who

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  the thought a good home in my body. one of these thoughts is the idea ... -flying) animals. the ones that can't fly are still this type of animal. this is a ... we have with each other. we live in a world with lots of ways to talk

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  magazine. Insert magazine. Release the bolt. Grip as in a firm handshake ... in my head, as I type this. It's soothing to step through a routine ... usual routines with reckless abandon in a desperate attempt to hold too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  fundamentally changed in some way as a person. The only way this can happen is by ... just to show me what it is. Sometimes, this happens in a slightly formal ... across Boston or ten time zones across the world, fitting in is a task. It

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018