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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  running around out of control, so I figured I'd put it in an entry by itself. This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No ... . More than not there's some aspect of selfishness and self-validation to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . Following the advice of the scientists and heading towards 6-120 you may have been confused. There were small groups of people in corners, talking ... Playsentations, the final Toy Design hoorah where all of the groups present their

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  and Jordan '11. For many of you, a campus tour will be one of the first ... to be as tourist-y as possible and take a bunch of pictures of stuff. Unlike the typical tourist, however, I decided to take pictures OF the tour

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don't kid yourself), I was really looking forward to relaxing this weekend. Of course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3 ... leaf in a stormy void. It floats against the shape of the world, makes

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... Eastern half of the country; South Dakota, which is designated by the Census

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I feel like I've experienced both ends of activity levels: doing all the ... tales of how both of these trips came together: 2023: New York, NY and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  and I am a physics major in the class of 2024. This week is eating ... chance to share my personal experiences. Trigger warning: discussion of ... windy because I was scared that a tornado would come out of nowhere, while

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  One of my favorite things about college is browsing all the classes I could hypothetically take and imagining my futures in them. Of course, the imagining bit is a lot more fun than the...actual taking of them, but I love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  In 2019, MIT swapped out all of their coin-operated laundry machines with "Washlava," a laundry platform consisting of IoT-connected machines ... )"]part of the building with no elevator.[/annotation] It wasn't a huge deal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... covers 5 main areas of computer graphics - splines, character rigging ... two-week pset associated with each of these topics, and an open

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  During my hiatus, I spent a lot of time working and [annotation note ... tips of my fingers soldering, sliced the tip of another with a box cutter ... of that misfortune made [annotation note="and consequently, me

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  have passed since freshman orientation, turning it into this blur of free ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought ... -racial... If you identify as a child of a single-parent... If you are first

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  Harvard announced that they were evicting the vast majority of their ... value in a detailed account of the exodus from MIT from the perspective of one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... wrestler that the singer (and presumed protagonist of the album) watched as a ... is what I remember:  The creator of this album, John Darnielle, didn

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , I inspected the snips of mint green hair that had settled on my black ... of calm consideration. They have a really lovely ambiance, with ... dull roar of a hair dryer.  I walked into the store with overgrown

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and ... also meant that I semi-regularly appeared in the door of my old UROP

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  alarming amount of tropical fruit plants on my apartment front stoop there ... time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://youtu.be/-tKgY5Ye-ak?t=373 livestream of me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022