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• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  personally found the real-world analogies and anecdotes in lecture to be far ... . How did you become interested in Course 14? Do you have any words for ... in [annotation note='The "EECS" department, which currently straddles

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  , both in the sense that I haven't appeared on the admissions blogs for a while, and in the sense that I haven't really been engaging in self ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite ... girl in [annotation note="sadly I do not know which region of Russia this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took ... habit hasn’t died, but really it was a decision; I came in determined that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  When I tell people that I spent January in Andorra, their first ... compile an FAQ. January in Andorra FAQ What's Andorra? Andorra is a tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  YOU GOT IN!! Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this wonderful news with your community and loved ones! We’ve cooked up some special things for you (like CPW and the 2030s Discord

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  cute date ideas or like. hang out ideas

  

  cool that I should check out :) In dorm I live in Simmons, so your ... . Make fancy desserts in the dining hall Because if I’m paying that much for a swipe I may as well feel like I had a bougie meal. Bake in the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  's who in the following series of pictures, you haven't read enough blogs.   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Things change, but the friends remain

  

  Hello! A lot has changed, but the friends and the vlogs remain. Doing this in the only way I know how :) [embed]https://www ... picked up running. I guess that's what happens in your late 20s and 30s.

  • by Celena C. '12
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  YOU! GOT! IN! Come hang out with us in the comments, you all star! And—more importantly—celebrate with your community and dear ones. We hope you feel like you’re on top of the world, and we’ll have some

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... few people were awake. People talked in low tones about physical

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a ... east coast to a state you’ve never set foot in. But on the other hand

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i remember the people who lived in this room before me of the several dozen ... , but i do know enough to have gotten to know you i've done enough in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  ; the exhaustion in the undergraduate community has been palpable since ... seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  /labmates from when I was in my master's program have gone on to build careers in ... credits Urban Science for Public Good: Gender and Racial Equity in ... gender and race in urban computation? This course introduces students to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  I finish performing in my first MTG production (post about that coming ... scavenger hunt! What’s that, you may ask? Well, Tetazoo is a floor in East ... ’m inclined to participate in a three-hour challenge that the upperclassmen set

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  home! All of this amazing and terrible chaos culminated in me sitting in ... all of last week's craziness, watching the sun rise with toast in one hand and a pen in the other made me feel human again. It probably hurt me

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a momentous occasion in US history that many argue sparked ... the same time, we were sadly reminded that while some in our community

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  :) _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ So last time I poured out all that I had in my brain regarding my ... felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong ... stranger suddenly appears in my life and we fall in love and live a long

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos are in this order because we are student-athletes, not athlete-students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... ’s each class with a summary, in haiku form: 2.671: Measurement and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018