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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  surrounding the conversion of senior house to graduate housing. joon included full transcripts of emails sent from the chancellor's office to ... first semester at MIT had the lowest graduation rate out of all the other

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  the first time in recent memory, i don't feel burned out at the end of ... loved (not reflected by my spotty attendance). in many of my course 14 ... and letting myself lost sight of the underlying economic intuitions

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  went over like a bag of rocks with the MIT administration. Long story ... audience of this site. I support Snively 100% in wanting to have that ... mission of the Admissions blogs. It's something that needs to be worked out

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  methods of making things sit in the digital world, mainly in the form of ... first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this ... on an issue, either showing both sides of an issue or heavily

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  into embroidery, (2) a magnificent social discovery, and (3) a gallery of ... sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  Note: Posting a lighthearted blog in the midst of everything that ... circumstances, I can't help but feel that the tone of this blog is strange and ... feel like I'm taking charge of my health. Discovering new recipes and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things ... ’d imagine that is exactly what Antarctica looks like. With the wet residue of ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... situations this theme of realizing that a past self had been naïvely idealistic

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a prufesssional riter ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... .05 (Quantum II) so that's kind of exciting. 17 minutes ago, Professor Moore was ... shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an ... yourself to the many loaves of bread at desk." I was excited - free bread

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  of Sufjan Stevens's because Sufjan Stevens is a proper noun as well as ... middle of Boston Harbor. Why? Well, sometime over the summer Conner 2 resident Jeremy, a native of Hull, Massachusetts, was all "Hey, my dad owns a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  poem snippets searching for hope amidst darkness

  

  lots of short poems. i don't think i have many words of wisdom or ... . i hope that you can find solace or hope in some of these words ... good bit of hope and i jump at the sounds of passersby and each one

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of things. When i heard from the "big man of the computer space" that we were doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  might expect, I was inevitably asked about my assessment of said pie. I ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... , especially in the early rays of daybreak, when the sun strikes my solar ... attempt to answer the age-old question of how hackers manage to access the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech ... through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012