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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  gotten to know a much wider cross-section of the campus community. I ... First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  In my very first blog post, I laid out a list of the goals that I ... . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  One of the events for the class of 2024's [annotation note="because this is our first time actually being on campus"]second round of ... Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  , especially this last semester, memorable and good. Here are just a few of them ... reiteration of my Peace Corps rec letter for you, but let this be a public display of my affections. I am incredibly grateful that I happened to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  undergraduate degree and attended the University of Chicago to attain a PhD in ... This year, MIT learned that two beloved members of our community would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  is my favorite time of the year! I love registering for classes because ... , with 21 (12 from 614 and 9 from UAT) of those already allocated, so that gives me about 33 units to play with. I have a list of classes I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  I made this AI write college essays. Quotes None of these quotes are ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... 'm fully prepared for the prospect of college. Sure, I'm familiar with the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland ... Challenge consists of running the Disney World Half Marathon on Saturday and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  first flood of music which crosses into audible sound, the swelling of ... ’m Sophia, the past head and creator of the Massachusetts Institute of ... thoughts on food. (PS: Even we’re a little confused about the stylization of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Chelsea R. ‘15 to talk about one of her favorite classes, Writing for Social ... building a career out of her true passions, even though the road hasn’t been ... to be able to share some of her insights with you. I also hope her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  Specificity — generally, the higher degree of quantitative precision with which ... During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... from my living community suggested that a group of us take the course

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  . Existence is a monstrous, tangled ball of yarn: all the strings cross and wrap ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  of lag response time because I will be traveling soon) Cross-posted on ... , really, needed to. But I did learn to be spending better. Being aware of ... . Knowing makes me unafraid of "not having enough", which then allows me to be

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  🫠. But because the point of using only simple words is NOT to make ... with a small number to the right of them. ANYWAY, [annotation note ... [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  a 360 degree view of the sunset. Someone was playing the violin nearby ... host of factors—but its time has finally come. Originally, Gosha was going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  This post contains spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT ... , because the experience of writing a hunt involves so many different things ... looks like it won't be interesting. Most of what I'll be writing about is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  will be in Japan next (and it's only open two months out of the year ... ,388 ft). It is an active volcano and a well-known symbol of Japan that is ... devouring bowls of chicken, eggs and rice, and buying a backpack cover that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  resource/guide for MIT first-years. This is a program under the Office of the First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years go on, a lot of these things will change and so it's always best to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022