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• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m A Famous Rockstar The title is misleading - I'm famous, and I'm a rockstar, but I'm not famous…

  

  thread helped me get over the end-of-vacation blues - many thanks. For the ... "famous" part. Last Saturday, the Boston Globe published an op-ed of mine (text here) and I instantly began to receive a ton of email, both good and

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike ... was not aware of this. So, it's a little strange when you've been biking ... , and it can kill a human being with just one kick of its mighty legs

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of myself doing entertaining things (and about twenty pictures of my friends ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  Bridge Supplement will act in place of the MIT first-year application. Please note ... without a humanities/social sciences/language teacher letter of ... letter of recommendation, we strongly recommend asking one of your math or
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  of the challenges. There were about 100 teams, and 10 different ... . Still, enticed by the promise of free food, I roused myself and went to ... process of re-branding its pre-existing process to sound more green.  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  sets off a chain of thoughts in my head. Pulled by some force I can ... lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note="Am I black in America? Well, that's one of the things I'm thinking about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  At the end of January (our Independent Activities Period) I made a promise to the rational, logic-based region of my brain: a promise that I ... Of Brain: "You got your fix during IAP, in Hack Punt Tool! AND it was a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  the following sign: You have arrived at New House: home to all of MIT ... Desmond. Enter the arcade. Walk to the very end. Do a couple of stretches for your hamstrings and calves, and then climb to the top of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  One of my favorite places on campus is the Metropolis makerspace. It ... possible. Kind of a tangent, but I want to shout out the fact that ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  , telling him how I felt a mixture of calm and anxiety, and I couldn’t quite ... difficult, the idea of not going down a hole of constant live updates across ... of normalcy and keep up my routine of waking up at the same time every

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  start with things that have remained the same since I left MIT. My love of music and anime has been constant. I was shocked at how many of my posts ... month. My last year at MIT, I spent most of it ignoring school work and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that ... Gangnam Style is finally not one of my top five songs this year, so I'm at least happy about that. Here are the previous editions of Blogger Wrapped

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab ... -labeled data that OpenAI can only dream of. The first-place prize was an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  foul chemicals you do not know the name of. They make the metal that you ... ball shatter. To remove the fear of messing up. You could crush that ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining ... "]whenever[/annotation] you want. Plenty of delicious blogs have already been written on this ... get in the habit of meal prepping or cooking [annotation note="if that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  coding conference (2020) - Accomplished. I had the great fortune of getting ... , the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History. In Chicago, I visited the Field Museum and the Museum of Science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a ... friend, so housing was resolved. then there was the problem of packing everything we'd need to sustain ourselves for four days. I'm the type of person

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... Scale? It's one of my favorite career fair shirts, although I'm still mad that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017