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• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  pursuits have become more important than trying to make amends with them? is ... 't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit ... to. “supposed to”, i guess, i don’t know what that even means. when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  monsters. I don't really have the words to describe what this show means to ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] art and things zine making + what makes us, us + thank you cambridge + yomp

  

  (most important bullet point IMO). You go here and it becomes abundantly ... , and for those who are so inclined, there are a billion ways to hold onto ... spectroscopy. This summer, I had the chance to live in an apartment in Cambridge

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... observed students entering anything from 999*999 to sin(π/6) to 7 ... +7 (=12) warrants machine help. And habits die hard. To combat our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written ... to discuss freshman grading. The background Hopefully you know about ... important reasons. 1. MIT classes are harder than high school classes, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This Tuesday, the Class of 2019 got together to celebrate the time we've spent together so far, and to toast the next two years of our MIT journey ... ; There was food, photo booths, a beautiful view, and, most importantly: A

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  background on this important aspect of MIT tradition, I want to use today ... of Technology Class Ring dates back to the spring of 1929. C. Brigham ... was to design a ring to be used as the Standard Technology Ring. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  , expecting about twenty people to stop by over the next two hours. Instead ... hour and a half with a sub-optimal set-up that led to a number of errors ... CPW was so much fun! I meant to get this blog up and running

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  and I met up at Penn Station to take our 18-hour long train ride down to ... /31/23Our next leg was New Orleans to Chicago, which was another 18-hour trip ... (allegedly), so we waited like 3 hours for him to actually start playing

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... biased personal take, subject to change blah blah blah [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  ’s important to understand how your foot is actually coming in contact with the ... applied to their walking. with that in mind, this post contains some ... ’s like to be you but you can probably ignore this post) 0. disclaimers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  side note, really take the time to appreciate your parents while you ... year left before you have to say goodbye, but they'll be gone before you ... decided to tell you my ED story. Last year, around this same time, I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  English language... and I'm so dedicated to you, gentle reader, that I would indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... about Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is most appealing to a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  ! Since I started college, my go-to fun fact when introducing myself is that ... few leftover undergrad requirements. I still plan to graduate with my ... friends really knew I painted in the past, mostly due to the occasional

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  DEAPS 2005 Yellowstone freshman year.

  

  screws appear to be in their right holes, in a 10 hour marathon lab day ... never blogged about it. Well, I'm going to now, because someone asked me ... in a pre-orientation program they thought I'd be able to help. Instead

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  took me about four hours to get through all of the works on display ... : Radio is close to an hour in length, but listeners will likely only hear ... Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... had to see it again, and bring my family this time. https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It ... begun to claw its way through the United States, and a month earlier, MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  thing that have changed not my class year...pls god i want to be a freshman forever

  

  lived in a dorm, participated in lots of student activites, and went to ... using Notion to track all my class assignments. i feel very on top of ... opposed to last year. i look forward to cooking for myself every day instead

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 12, 2020