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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... top of a few weeks in therapy, so I'm letting this entry make its debut

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  this). This is another one of those. It was written by Janelle Salanga ... for those of you still patiently on the wait list, as she once was ... and Doing Things on colored post-card papers, and a curated set of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  spend a lot of time reading articles and opinion editorials about a lot of our frightening modern day issues, and I spent a lot of time thinking ... beautiful posts about the current feelings of black people throughout the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The After

  

  In a couple months, I’ll be back in Cambridge after 10 years of ... amount of time spent in CAD. I’m still hacking it out here in the world of ... world, and the feeling of making something that gets used around the world

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  feeling useful. Productive. Only after six years of losing and almost ... ’t let go of. Things I cannot live without. Only now, have I started to live as a human being and not a human doing. Here are some of the

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  DO YOU WANNA BUILD A SNOWMAN?? I KNOW YOU DO

  

  LOL"]FIRST(ish)[/annotation] SNOW OF THE YEAR!! (several days late) We ... :D Even more ironically, the snow chose to arrive during the middle of ... displayed on the TV, a large quantity of fake lei, and half the attendees

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  march is a rough month. you are lost, not only in a pile of things to see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... AAAAAAAAAAAAA. it's the constant screeching noise in the back of your head you can

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  Wait. Why am I here?  For those of you who don’t know, I actually don ... new job, and I’m kind of nervous. Well, kind of is KIND OF an ... moment of my life since I was probably 12-years-old being [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have ... 't think to take pictures of, to record the little moments that arise

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying ... semblance of authority? why do people think i have my shit together more than

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="attachment_65379" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] from the ancient days of hs ... chalkboards on one of his walls. (I talk about this more in the whiteboard post

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  . On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It ... communities do you most value being a part of?" But often, discussion strays ... into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  ahead of my peers, so this came as a disappointment. I resolved to take 6 ... of which were 6.0002. One of the four was 6.009, the second class in ... also switched majors to aerospace engineering. I had a long list of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  some frequent readers of the blogs might know, I have a UROP at the Media Lab that I adore and pour a lot of my time and energy into. Recently, a ... recommend checking out this website. There's all sorts of resources, curricula

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020