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• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  . And in a similar process, I run away from my other responsibilities. "I ... pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started Tuesday evening with a breakdown in Walker Memorial, and when I got back, I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  from california, recorded a video message to kick off the morning. she ... woke up this morning, layered on two sweaters and a jacket, and went ... policing and criminal risk assessment. there's a critical need for ethics and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  ="alignnone" width="1920"] Ice Spires[/caption] a few months after stepping down from ... ago. i created a new world, i booted up survival, walked around in some caves, and got a few diamonds. diamonds! i won—and that’s where the story

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  stroll from a campus library back to my dorm—I will bump into at least ... tutoring, or stepping back from a club. It’s hard to figure out what truly ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Wanting to Do Everything And Deciding What Parts of Everything I Can Do

  

  If I had a penny for every time I heard someone say, “this year went by so fast,” and other phrases of the sort, I would have a lot of ... ’ve started to feel the weight of it a lot more recently. In some ways, I feel

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  term plans, including college. That's when I stumbled upon a web page ... happy to be acknowledged!"]received a response[/annotation] to my email a ... admissions process was now less than a year away. By this point, I had a better

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house with many doors, and cats walking through the open doors. Each door has a ... " align="aligncenter" width="768"] It's like a cat door, except other cats

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People ... some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break ... could try (and likely be unsuccessful in) compiling a list of activities

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... butter to any meal qualifies it as a meal of substance. Sure, it might not ... peanut butter on them? That's a well-rounded, nutritious breakfast. See

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime in the near future.   but i digress.   i had a strange

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  share a few thoughts. of course, i won't pretend that my experience represents everyone at MIT. but maybe one more perspective can help you make a ... much as a person that it kind of shocks me to look back at how different

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  't spread them out, realizing they forgot about the swim requirement a day ... intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... intimidating. I say that a lot. I mean, other professors have (jokingly?) put

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... schadenfreude. As I exit a building, a discretized gradient of snowfall upon

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  pretty pictures. From my past entries, that’s clearly incorrect, but I ... ...with programming languages. A few of us have some programming background, but for the ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The New Year Barging in on the new blogger party.

  

  previous years, several folks from the MSA met at a pre-determined location ... Muslim Students” Association joined forces for a dinner celebrating the ... were not permitted at the dinner, but just imagine an endless feast in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and ... that the outer layer is mingling amongst the inner core. Summer is a ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  of this post - a few weeks ago, MITblogs got a question from Claire: "I ... consider living in a dorm with kitchens instead of a dining hall. (Burton ... does have a dining hall (Baker, Simmons, McCormick, and Next, for those

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency lately is that MIT is a competitive and cutthroat place, and that ... stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photojournalism and answers to some questions

  

  carrying an umbrella in a snowstorm doesn't make immediate intuitive sense to you, you've clearly never lived though a New England winter. Timur had asked me to take pictures the next time it snowed (snew would be a better

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005