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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  Now that I am soon to be an old, decrepit senior, I thought it might be interesting to explore some of the less-than-optimal decisions I’ve made while in college...   1. Trying to go for the computer science

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics ... , wiki, blog, or webpage. Another option for the project was to engage in ... deliberation on this issue. Scientists point out that we need to reduce gas

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  going anywhere at all. I wanted to go to college, but how would I possibly ... quite enough. By the point I was halfway through trying to woo the places I wanted to go, I convinced myself I would miss most of my shots so

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  their own! I’ve spent so much time learning how to write well and then ... —if my goal was to produce well-written sentences, then perhaps the advent ... -generated writing doesn’t bother me, and if somebody were to create a story generated

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  with “Try not to drink the media.” This really just implies that cell ... admitted to intrusive thoughts about sipping some media! Before I say ... these, and you should definitely not take this as an endorsement to chug

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  growth. When I look back on all of the long drives west from Long Island to CTY, they feel like the opening scenes to a series of intense coming-of-age movies. When I decided to take a gap year, I wasn't sure if I'd get that

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  favorite movie. If I saw or heard anything Tarzan-related, I'd beg them to ... my residual fascination with Tarzan contributes to how much I love the ... clueless is normal. We are beginners in everything we do, from reading, to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... -bucket-list thing to do.  But, we also didn’t want to UROP just to UROP. We wanted to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  This past summer, Hasan Minhaj FINALLY made his way to my hometown on his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... Facebook event, I went hysterical to say the least. Yall! Second chances

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  October. I spent this past week trying to get all of my work done before ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one afternoon, hoping to catch the 8:00 Daft Punk-themed laser show in the ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  This summer, I decided to take an internship overseas. Where in the ... cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “All Aboard the Rage Bus” Travelling by bus.

  

  is only eight to twelve hours from Boston through New York City ... busses to more expensive and less environmentally friendly planes, unless ... up early from a field trip at the Pittsburgh Zoo to go on a road trip

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 3, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the opportunity myself. That's an easy thing to forget when you've got your head

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a generally good principle: don't let other people tell you what think or how to act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  from juniors on up tend to blog more when they need money than when they ... uninteresting person, this translates to me rarely blogging. Stay tuned, though ... where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of summer '09, when I so intelligently decided to play Ultimate Frisbee ... breaking the big toe on my right foot - eleven days before I was to leave ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the ... Cambridge. Of course, as a general rule access to the roof of the Green

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of ... 't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact ... almost everything moved and decided to call it a day. All that's left is

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that it would be a really good idea to write a post. My dentist doesn't actually have anything to do with MIT, although I do constantly feel like the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008