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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit ... on some aspect I don’t feel like I understood. 2) I think you only ... Fitzgerald On Writing by Stephen King C: fine lol. thought provoking I

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  at 11:59 PM on Saturday, and I was up the next morning at 10:30 AM to ... Monday; registration for classes was on Tuesday, and then classes started Wednesday. On the Tuesday before classes started, for one of the many

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... ’t dislike physics at all (outside of doing badly on tests, I would say), so I ... child. Well, I was right on some things! I actually didn’t dislike the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  ’ve done some reflecting on what I’ve learned throughout these past four ... learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  reflection on that choice.   When I was younger –I’m talking middle ... on . I was shy until I wasn’t, which happened around 7th grade when I ... this have to do with you leaving Maine and moving home?” Well, on about

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  different community events and (of course) occasionally when working on psets ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me ... example, who was involved on campus in creating the OneWorld@MIT celebration

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  universe, and everything. My roommate and I finished preliminary work on our ... . Instead of sleeping, I watched some Spanish-language television dramas on Netflix to brush up on my Spanish, googled instructions for how to make a 3

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be ... devote the rest of my life to cancer research. As time went on after that ... choose from to do a research project on. I scrolled up and down the list

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  school in astronomy. As a result, the contents of the binders on my ... from organic chemistry, notes on plays by Tom Stoppard, and equations ... , it’s all space physics: notes on the fate of stars, on how galaxies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  , is all around us. Its fruits are bore on every billboard, every cereal ... on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks ... and recommendation on the politically tortuous issuance of the

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  I didn’t attend MIT this spring. I flew to Georgia on February 28th ... my backpack down on the Trail, extra stuff weighs us down emotionally ... Max Brenner (a must-have dessert stop on Boylston Street). But I no

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  all. You can browse some of them here, on the financial aid website ... of interesting things you can work on. I have a pretty generous ... computing environment on the campus computers), the email servers, all of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even ... just run-of-the-mill icky like I do right now), you can head yourself on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem ... Computation Structures, and I’m an active member of a fraternity on campus. Tell

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  shepherd’s pie and an apple with peanut butter for lunch. Then I work on my ... I’m anxious to finish it on time so I can get started on my work for next week. 2:45 p.m. It’s hard to tell whether I’m making progress on

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester running a ChatGPT-like application on a [annotation note="The same type of display you'd normally see on old-timey electronics like analog ... crowd cheers” which just showed purple people-looking blobs jiggling on a

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

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they're in, such that whenever you feel you could slip or fall on your back ... you should subvert it to go beyond what you can do. — I'm stuck on the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  of shit I was going to eat, sometimes served on a high-speed conveyor ... . I cried a lot, often in my room or empty classrooms on campus, with ... , the drop in motivation that followed put a crushing weight on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  accompanied us on indigenous percussion (such as a washboard-like instrument ... teacher was actually Eliberto Barroncas – the instrument maker we met on day ... an hour. The rehearsal stretched on for so long that we didn’t get to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  "]whenever[/annotation] you want. Plenty of delicious blogs have already been written on this ... those circumstances, my favorite food options on or close to campus ... day we’re working on making that a reality. Our app is the most direct

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022