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• Blog / Personal Travel

  childhood and disney world trips

  

  twenty minute drive from Disneyland, I had plenty of opportunities to go to ... went to Disney World with my dad's side of the family around the age of 3 ... midnight in the timeshare, sleeping next to my aunt and eagerly showing her

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there ... declared a major)! So it's not just a meme when people say that if you had to ... ) extremely popular and b) associated with a higher probability to earn above

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and outsourcing to MIT students was the best way to get the high-quality human ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  This semester, I was lucky enough to take the beginner glassblowing ... – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You forgot to bring food in a green take-out box from Maseeh lunch, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  ’ll text my friend Nathan at some ungodly hour of the night, and drag him to ... appliances. This poem is impossible to divorce from its color. I genuinely don’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  . When I get back to my room, I realize that only an hour has passed. I ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  ? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of ... 't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the musical then transitions to a song entitled "It Sucks To Be Me" so let

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  lab for three 4.5-hour shifts each week, and got to plan, prepare, and ... chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  , I talked for hours with Dell representatives, but to no avail. On ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have ... .110) and Mechanical Engineering (2.772) class. I'm hoping to have time

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . After yoga, I decided to go running for half an hour, which was of course ... . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... " but "Friderick." 3. The male emperor penguin must hike 80 miles to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston becomes Pottersville The MIT area is full of celebrations for the release of "Harry Potter and the…

  

  geeks, and thus you might be asking yourself, if I went to MIT, what would ... away), there promises to be possibly the best of the area's events. Beginning at 9pm until the "magic" hour, the store will host a "a night of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U ... superhero. How many new heroes and stories have missed their chance to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  the now: the pain, the stress, the hours lost to unfulfilling work ... ’d[annotation note="a near impossible task to ask of two 19 year old college students ... down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  important. as in, researchers have been unable to consistently replicate ... classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  formed, again across all six games. It's important to note that this isn ... quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  alternate subtitle: how I learned to stop worrying and throw some ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  bringing together thoughts about my own life to come up with a coherent ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that ... made MIT almost a natural place for me to want to go, but the longer that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017