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• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  't have to emerge from this school as an engineer… especially at the cost of ... back to Boston that's been delayed for ~2 hours. One part of me is ... friends again and thoroughly enjoy IAP. But another part of me is mourning

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  mind staring at multiple pages of scientific jargon. My HASS is ... Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... this, you, too, are here, or belong here, one of us, walking at a running ... I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  're intending to look at . Basically, it's extraneous, hard to get rid of, and the ... take a look at the result of the stacking - the sum of all the signal - and see whether I've found a pulsar. This is the kind of plot I look at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  case, it's kind of delicate and at the same time kind of badass, becase ... to develop and test these sorts of things in an environment where if ... tens of thousands of dollars of payload into the emptiness of space just

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  stampede of Nike-shod joggers, you can congratulate yourself by turning left down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  picture of MIT at night, looking out over West Campus. You can see the West ... curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  mysterious things that happen at the Institute during the middle of the night ... hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of Jack Florey. If you're actually an ... . Besides, what good MIT student isn't up at 4 AM? (Dear Concerned Parents: we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... Study: Continuous Data Stream of MIT Student Reveals Something  Department of Physical Education | Department of Biology Massachusetts

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... helicopter out of a cargo plane flying at 30,000 ft that would then fly itself ... 's gotten easier, I think I've just gotten a hell of a lot better at doing it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  question, just to ensure that all of me, or at least nearly all of me would ... , you chose which one you lived with.  I remember looking at the sea of ... , you chose which one you lived with.  I remember looking at the sea of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of why I chose to come back to MIT. Wandering around campus late at ... . It's kind of magical. In the lounge at midnight, laughing and talking ... of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  . Here at MIT though, you have a chance to move out of your dorm during ... too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  test that we had, and started writing things down at the delirium of 6 ... thinking back, one of my clearest memories was that there were at least two ... a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  't from one particular category of my thoughts - they are very random and i'll be impressed if you can catch a single thread of coherence running ... morning with a sore throat if you don't waking up at 7:15 is too early

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant ... viral social media trend aimed at raising awareness of amyotrophic lateral

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014