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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there a medical facility on campus?

  healthcare center serving the health and wellness needs of the entire MIT ... , affiliates, faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, retirees, and eligible ... services and medical specialties delivered by highly qualified health care
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did an MIT grad start Khan Academy?

  Salman Khan '96 (18 & 6 and Class President!) and MEng '98, started the online learning phenomenon in 1993 when he started tutoring his ... relatives and friends were requesting help with their academics, so he started
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  I rapidly switch between wanting to do something and not wanting to do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  one. it's nice to have slack in your schedule. and by slack, i don ... subtle difference: buffer is inserted, slack is not. say alyssa and ben wanted to do a big task XYZ. they split it into three tasks, X, Y, and Z

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  love languages in the little things

  

  , and physical touch--are fine, but love can be found in so many places ... because everything is pink and heart-shaped. There are two categories of ... merch and heart-shaped objects. I hope you understand the effect that this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  science for too long. I was walking along a riverbed and I was torn. I spent ... and eat up all my writing time. I didn’t want to go to MIT, because I ... would teach me more science than I’d get anywhere else.  So I went and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  I’m three weeks into my MISTI, and I think I’ve pretty much got this ... , watch some Netflix and fall asleep. It’s mundane and boring and exactly ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and ... (quite frankly a little surprised) and 100% elated. This was an opportunity ... a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  As you may have gathered from these blogs and/or any time you may ... ideas and being really, astoundingly good at the whole art thing. She ... creations and adventures: personal favorite posts of mine include The 21

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual ... undervalued - people seem to think it's too basic and simple and unexciting, but ... MIT campus. We sat on a bench outside, munched on cookies, and discussed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry. Yeah, that was a few days ago. I was distracted by the front desk and its ... the bustling activity of the seniors packing up their belongings and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  , you know that I have 6.003: Signals and Systems on Junior/Senior P ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are ... , a tenured and world-renowned professor will stand up in front of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  , and other activities I've done. However, I thought it might be fun to ... because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same alums' parties and talking. But I remember the first time I saw him. It

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially “closed” campus on Sunday and Monday, and Housing and Residential Services

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  is beautiful stuff, magnetic flux tubes and reconnection and turbulence ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  , and since flights were also relatively cheap,  for spring break my friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... 't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... quite the same. it's experienced in shorter, more intense bursts, and is

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I want, just what I've got And if we sit and count it up, it's really not a ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• 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 ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021