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• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... still have shades of MIT that going to MIT on Zoom does not. I can still ... campus, and their explorations in finding new places to live. Today, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect ... yourself "I'm ridiculous! I can do really absurd research! I should win an IgNobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers ... thought process I like to walk myself through, but in light of the most ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . obviously i can’t prove this is what happened in each scenario, but i believe ... damaging ways trust, i’ve decided, is really about power. as in, i can ... , having friends that i can rely on during emergencies, etc.) and because of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  of which has kept me incredibly busy. To put much of this in context, I should mention that I turned 20 last Wednesday (as some of the creepy ...  ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  consumption of an immeasurable amount of calories. (OK, Dad, I know you hate when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bored at work My weekend, a favor to all of you, and some questions to answer

  

  four years of Latin in high school -- but clearly I am not as witty as I ... experience of many MIT athletes. (In high school, I personally was always the ... -- since I didn't come in yesterday (I was up in Maine at Adam's ski condo

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  'm only in the first week of the semester and I don't think I'm gonna make ... 're MIT students.) There are pictures of this somewhere. I'll see if I can ... - thanks! Now I can link my parents here so they can stop asking me how the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  Naptha trending the front page. I've blogged a couple of times already about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours ... some of these panels. Coming in to the weekend I knew it was going to be ... stunning in person I was shaken to my core. I also got a lot of photos just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  is Azerbaijanian" all of which I learned how to say in middle school ... left (in that respect, it was like most of my MIT problem sets last term ... travel bureau what the best arrangement of trains would be. Because, as I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get our usernames back in those days), I chose madmatt as my username. It ... jobs, I made myself a list, mcgann, with madmatt as the only member of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  leaves. I would go on walks in the middle of the day, after work, and ask ... to be tough but because I was lazy. The funny thing is, I can't remember what it felt like anymore, just that I felt a bit of real fear at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  self-destruction my entirely self-inflicted problems

  

  how to either solve or live with my problems in spite of everything, i ... story understand explores the consequences of superintelligence. in the ... trigger built in; that for every person, there is a sentence that can reduce

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  principle investigator of the lab, is very busy. I usually see him in the ... activities are you involved in? A: I do a lot of things medically oriented. Some of the things I’m really involved in are American Medical

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... . With no stress of the semester to keep you company. In those moments of ... every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  voice in my head says, "I'll pay you $9.25 if you get out of bed right now ... have about 60-70 pages of reading per class per night. As you can see, I ... last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  concepts that you can learn and explore. I also play a lot of video games (or ... two years in college—I didn’t do a lot of math in high school, so seeing ... I asked a bunch of people, professors, current and former students

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024