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• Blog / Community Projects

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  21 years ago today a very special carton of milk was brought home from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... , because the application was from a (then) twenty-year-old carton of milk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a ... Sciences.']my CMS hat[/annotation] on and think about the Mystery Hunt from a ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  . Student groups are tackling the issue from a Mental Health perspective. I wonder ... The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  't have pictures): View from Baker roof: 3. Nobel laureates are a dime ... and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  weeks, a group of seven students (from MIT undergrads to grad students to ... from the class? "In writing, you must kill your darlings" – a Faulkner ... evolved (after several iterations and a lot of feedback from part of the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  up trivia on the number of presses occurred from a NumbersAPI and ... : noise are angry -- will randomly choose a song/noise from a playlist of ... wrap as a dielectric, keeping the two conductive sides apart from each

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  disconnected from all the people there. I mean, how do you even start a ... "Why did you come back?" "Well, I'm—I'm a queer Asian...person, so..." "You felt seen." "Yeah." Imagine a fish out of water. When I was growing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  published a book named "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and ... 's a pretty popular book. Someone made a joke, suggesting that this book ... "innovation" as their highest-weighted judging criterion. A national science

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’ve dropped them from standing height. Once, I dropped the T27 onto a hardwood ... The day after Valentine's Day is a good time to talk about computers, since my boyfriend’s Dell recently toppled off a desk in building 56. It

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  been distracted from something else. A something else that sat silently ... I've mentioned a couple times that, like East Campus, Burton-Conner is first divided into Burton and Conner side, and then from there, into

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  sliced steaks from it. Cooking steak properly is a complicated thing that ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding ... Random Hall friend Devin. It doesn’t have frills, like a dishwasher or a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  could attend a university whose site I had stumbled onto from a friend ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... decisions came, the more encouraging my friends got, and from their words, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  lecture, taught by a professor, which can have anywhere from 30 students in ... anywhere and have such a drastically different background from MIT students ... suffer from. So there's that as well. In general, there are a number of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  hair touching came from…. But yeah stop that. A few of the other things ... melanin) you are going to have a lot smaller group to choose from. You will ... dope from time to time. If you are a black student coming to MIT, I just

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  that took a lot of emotional energy. I was forced to: Recover from the ... sessions with a counselor from Mental Health run by the OME. I want to say ... from a philosophy major perspective. After all, I’ve written 5-10 page

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , creative kids whom it was a pleasure to talk with and learn from. But most of ... from point A to point B, and at least the latter came with a dental plan ... world, to do things with purpose, and I’ll never learn that from doing a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... rather than above it like the 4 train, but I still keep my watching from a ... Boston from the inside of a train car, suitcase in hand as I returned to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  're definitely not a cult * * * ME: so where are you from FROSH: minnesota ... FROSH: where do you live? ME: east campus! i love it a lot, actually ... told you about my a cappella group yet * * * FROSH: is this east campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  [annotation note="Google Can Children Learn Creativity from a Social Robot? for ... with a team from my lab that I got to develop some really cool learning ... of this week, I am officially a published researcher! WOOOOOOOO!!!!! I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  , where i learned how to use a telescope to observe stars from atop the roof ... Who Flew All The Way from California to Attend MIT Splash”, a juice ... graduating from high school. it’s not a color that’s really unnatural or stands

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025