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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  MIT played radio games for the first time shot a real pistol ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn’t have any final exams so I got to go back home early for the break and

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... are ways I can make a tangible and very consequential difference for the ... a night for a few weeks as I had done with the other books I’d read

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  be off the meal plan and experience cooking for myself. Simmons has a ... minute walk!) at The Hyatt, I also visited them there and hung out for a ... as a group of them were headed back for the night, I heard someone say

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... formula for a given polynomial depends on how complicated the symmetries of ... where you can swap the two roots, which is a very simple symmetry. For

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked: 1. How large are the individual rooms in a frat house(or in your case ... some for the greek societies as well? My response: I don't know. I

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last ... can see a bit of the East Campus interior. I'll also be starting some ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For ... So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  year is for the concert Saturday evening, when MIT’s a cappella groups ... you could buy a 31-class pass, good only for the month, for a supreme ... . For a couple of foggy weeks, in there I was gripped by the paralyzing

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  as an intern for the US Embassy in Cameroon. Somebody had requested a work visa to the US, showing an offer letter for a job at Verizon. To ... Kahoot for the students and wrote a page of u-substitution problems for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks. Long a ... Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... , humor and a high regard for hackers and hacking. He explains that hacks

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  before i left for boston, and i cried...a lot. the complex mother ... not do so great on the math diagnostic for a variety of reasons. I got a ... for the first time in my life (it was a slightly nerve-wracking ordeal

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  fall, I suffered a brain injury and stepped back from my role for the ... , supporting my team the way I had hoped, and taking a backseat overall. But, it was the right decision for my recovery. The good news is, I am on track

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  experience. My own description is a little shorter: The best six days of my ... joined ~50 other MIT students and boarded a bus to the Camp Wonderland ... come up with a vision to change the world and a plan to put that vision

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  ! “Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  playing a song for you. Please welcome to the stage, Rascal Flatts! *cue ... realized that the Pops were famous for a reason. They. Are. Good. I like to ... temps for the holiday, meaning that as I sit here typing this entry I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  together to the United Arab Emirates for a couple of days, where we bonded ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free-food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2 ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost ... . whenever i hear variations on the theme of “i was torn into a million pieces

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the ... will be the questions that I answer first.   Finally (for this ... the movie "Risky Business"? (Not really a question I got on the road

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... for a particularly bad day. The longer I lived in Boston, the more I ... here is more expensive. I can take a day trip to New York City for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008