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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there ... Music Librarian. So read on ahead, to learn about MIT's Libraries, Harvard's Libraries, and why you should go to either MIT or Harvard. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Airport customs for something like an hour (can someone please explain to me ... 've been traveling for 16 hours. I credit my consciousness to the hour ... Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... love for reading and keep up with it, even if I have to wait for less ... . in that I always used to be hungry for books, and I like the image of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  just scary, because how do you talk to people? How do you ask for help ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... the caller asks for the sides to promenade, but even if you and your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  in Boston to celebrate gaming, and it is completely free to the public ... around 10am, got my pass and a guidebook around 10:45, and headed over to 10-250 for the keynote. The lanyard has The Behemoth logo on it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  reserved. I was supposed to have it for the whole day, so that was awkward. I ... kids come to Spark) which had just about enough room for one big square ... to sit back there and hit "next slide" for me. To teach, I stood on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  tangible ways. for now, i’m just going to take Scott’s advice and do ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  Now that it's too late to turn back you've decided to matriculate to MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... happy to tell you and as I was reflecting late one night about how fast

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT have a first generation community on campus?

  The First Generation and/or Low Income Program (FLI) is committed to building a sense of community among first generation MIT students, faculty ... and personal development of first generation students at MIT. MIT's 17
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  message to that person looking back, and it is this: go find the magic ... experience these lives singing against mine for as long as we choose to? and ... Isola lab I’ve been trying to investigate certain claims, for example by

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a ... able to several personal projects in the time I would be taking a class ... relieved to finally be done with anything. It was both distressing and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  wonderful opportunity for a worthwhile cause. Also, we get to learn and ... look forward to. IAP is the best time for adventures and new experiences ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  with my academic work. Even at moments when missing classes to study for ... letters. You can feel the impulse to reach for his face and break it. You ... getting accepted for publication. On print, it came out to about

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  going to be busy from 8pm-10pm on April 18 for a blogger-centric CPW event ... astrophysics to fusion to now doing research in computer vision for ecology. If ... mentoring for Project Manus. So far, I’ve traveled to five countries through

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  for 30+ people. By which I mean that I pretended to be Mark Bittman and ... cook for tEpikazoo, an 80-person feast for three of MIT's hungriest ... mentioned it for about 1/4th of a sentence, but I like to prolong my fleeting

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... wishing for specific outcomes from these things inevitably leads to ... wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... realistically we only had time for about 40 people to cut out their drawings. And ... sheets of paper for their friends. Almost all of the team had to leave

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  Japanese textbook for beginners. My goal is to finish Genki II by the end of ... one-hour lesson and then you're free to ski or snowboard for the rest of ... ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017