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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break ... while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and all you want is a few more precious minutes to figure out that damn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  unusual - massive stacks of flyers were being frantically passed from person ... example about surface integrals. Of course, as a hack, nobody knows who was responsible, but it was executed perfectly and was a great way to end the last

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  always certain where it comes from, but I’ve still been able to feel a ... community comes from mutual suffering, shared interests, or just a sense of ... . It’s helped ease a little bit of the stress coming from starting

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  gotta come. My first thought was to let a couple of my friends from high ... Hey Internet! After not posting a video for a couple weeks I totally feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  plans, he stumbled upon another email from me...as a prefrosh. Sam: I think I owe you a postcard from a few years ago. Me: Huh? OH GOD. Sam ... Once, a man whom we can only assume must have been truly desperate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  syndrome from me. I was going to write a blog post about it, but I couldn ... actual blog post content from a given page. And this is written in bbcode ... false, because I got rejected from a lot of the colleges I applied to. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to ... just a warm, familiar respite from freezing midnight walks from Kendall ... administrators, and thirteen campers at a beautiful facility in Rhode Island. From

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  sleep schedule we were on, the morning felt one step away from a light ... -and-of itself. From bird eye’s view, every building cluster took on the shape of a ... long it would take us to get from A to B. Even if we practiced biking

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  day a message appeared from the aether that read, “You should blog. Now ... So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who ... of eternity and create a legend—a legend that people would whisper

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Holding out for a piece of Pi because there wasn't enough to go around the first time

  

  Over a week has passed since Pi day, and the reality of the MIT ... admission, there is a bit of role reversal as a new decision date approaches ... . Those accepting a spot on the Waiting List, need to choose another

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40 hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  place — from kids who can optimize a candy route through twenty ... Confession: I had never been trick-or-treating.  Not once. Not as a kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Class Projects

  Watch the “Wild” 2023 Final Presentations for 2.009: Product Engineering Processes something to watch while awaiting decisions

  

   Chris M. led the winning Pink Team and took a leave from MIT to become the ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 ... . Check out the "build challenge," which is used as a big collaboration activity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  experimental writing. From Dada to 'Pataphysics and many more, we learned a lot ... , including a look at the "Table of Forms."  We would have lots of assignments which involved using a constraint, such as one from the Table of Forms, to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  gibberish machine which spouted pseudorandomly generated spam tweets from a ... _ebooks is now a thing. Everything it says is randomly generated from a source ... Some of you may remember @horse_ebooks, a Twitter account which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... complete without dropping objects from a tall building. Saturday night was ... formed to watch people drop a bunch of frozen pumpkins from the roof of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  went from training 3 times a week to 5 times a week, earning my green ... This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  :20 (So ridiculous considering I lived a ten-minute drive from the school ... from schools that I was confident I was going to get into. I got a likely letter from a school that had an average SAT score that was 70 points

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  jumbled in my mind. After coming home from the exam and taking a long nap ... just kidding about the rap. More like a 118-line poem. (below) --- So when I signed on to be a blogger, I made a small promise to myself

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  a musician at first glance! And coming from what essentially amounted to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions ... Lamsweerde's "The Forest" series, from 1995. (Take a look at the other images

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005