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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  a harsh mistress. But I'd like to use this post to get back into the ... received my first D, but I fulfilled enough graduation requirements for both ... . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  alumni of all ages who stopped in the kitchen first to see Jack." In 1991 ... Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  lost so much to the pandemic: we did our first semester completely ... Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... stickers on this one that I refuse to throw out. Apparently H2GO is a brand

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  [liveblog] gingerbread stata we are building stata out of gingerbread

  

  ="225"] transporting the gingerbread sheets to n52 (makerspace where we ... ="1000"] little sign to test out the brackets (below) and rice ... [/caption]   [1:30pm] We've made our game plan and our first building! Some

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 23, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... , consciously or otherwise, to it. That rhythm was their driver and catalyst ... to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... Krystal talked about had been picked through and claimed. I don’t like to ... just waiting for me to bring him home. He keeps a very watchful eye as I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  ), so I vet very carefully: first, I only send requests to women and ... looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  this blogger does not exist join me in the uncanny valley

  

  first try using the blogger dataset to train StyleGAN-ADA, which was ... forwarded to me:  i remember your posts (college apps, haiku) about robo-CJ, and I wondered if it might make sense to try using a Cycle-GAN to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first blogger to major in 21E, nor will I be the last. I actually decided to switch to a 21E major because I talked to the twins, Danny and Allan, about

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  As the summer turned to fall, my housemates and I prepared to move out of our cozy apartment where we'd spent the year, back to MIT ... we possibly be about to be seniors? How could it be our[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  , one of my friends from hall, Lisa T. '20, and I decided to do "poemtober," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really artists (or not as much as I'd like to be, anyway), but we wanted to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  Saturday, November 11th, 2:33PM I’ve been struggling to blog lately. Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly because the positive things I want to write seem to take too much effort or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  As promised, I finished my post about deciding what to do this summer ... summer started, I had planned to become a neurologist. I knew a lot about ... requirements, etc. I knew nothing about graduate school. As I began to realize

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Are you ready for some FOOBAW? the one and only time I talk about football

  

  here all my life, and I know next to nothing about American football. The ... sticker. A very simple introduction to both teams: Alabama: Called the ... are indoctrinated into a team before they're able to make a conscious

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 7, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  allowing her to see me binge dining hall food.[/caption] My freshman year, I ... time, I didn't want it to be true – who wants to spend a whole year ... the arts. At one point, I mentioned I had always wanted to try

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every time I try to, I inevitably break down, get overwhelmed, and stop. But I know this will only keep bothering me until I get it out, so I'm going to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  I have this wonderful thing called free time, I'm ready to start blogging again. Maybe I'll even try to match how prolific I was as a freshman ... order, which often happens on surveys we're asked to fill out. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  answers to more questions... ------------------------------------- Andrew ... 's story as a complete picture - each factor affects each other factor to ... statement is correct in that once you've proven yourself to be academically

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009