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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  Program"]UROP[/annotation] with the Tangible Media Group (TMG) at the MIT ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Longtime readers may recall that I am a big fan of the His Dark ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is inspired by a line from the Amber Spyglass, as the ghost of an old woman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  So, grade reports at MIT are not super complicated. When you go online to look at your grades you might see the familiar A ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... members on stage at the end of their set, cutting off their last song. Not ... Comparative Media Studies. I'm kind of considering it. > I have yet to see if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  perfect, considering it's that time of year again. No, I'm not talking about ... filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  Approximately one three-hundred-sixty-fifth of the people who read ... out (ahh! Is Kate stalking me?). The rest of you are probably just ... ,’ which means something completely different at MIT. The first birthday

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  easily frustrated by lack of progress, or by people who seem more content ... come up with a word to succinctly describe this aspect of my personality ... it's this part of my personality that's secretly behind my not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  could honestly be put to better use on a lot of things, but at the same ... for seniors) right now. My walls are an uninteresting shade of white. I ... like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  dogs are black all of the time! Also, my phone was at 3% battery and I ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... ’s a full semester’s worth of cool things, none of which are particularly

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i got a cat he is so small

  

  way. The reins of my bank account are at the mercy of his paws and I ... important of an update to not post imminently. I went back to visit my friends and family over winter break, and found out one of my high school

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Week 1 ...of Year 2.

  

  free pizza, and I’ve spent three of the past seven evenings at Harvard ... carrying the weight of this school. — In the week I've been back at MIT, I ... commitments are taking shape. My new room has thin yellow curtains and at least

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 14, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  untarnished views of my family still intact. I wish my grandfather would yell at ... couple years ago, maybe my sophomore year of high school, my mom told me ... raised me. As my mom worked long hours in a city three hours away, a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  one of the things i’m working on outside of class this semester is a ... to produce a zk-snark implementation of an elliptic curve pairing ... without showing you the photo at first glance you might think these kinds

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  ("Hitting the slopes at MARC") looks the coolest, but #2 ("SEM photo of ... affiliated with successful startups, so they will throw a lot of money at you ... Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  /Math person at heart. It's kind of amusing actually. I once liked chem, and then ... engineering major at a little school called rose-hulman institute of technology ... -by-case basis. You should visit the First Year at MIT (for the Class of 2010

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  It is 12 am on the second weekend of IAP. Snow has been falling for ... want a quarry at least as big as a tennis court, with snow at least three inches deep. At MIT, we’re blessed with Briggs Field, a massive

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  continue to read as much as I can. I hang a drawing of Marsha P. Johnson at ... World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  . --- At MIT, architecture is one of the most personal educations you can get ... I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  things are clicking into place and falling completely apart all at once. i ... of tissue, then move that to the recipient's hole[/caption] needless ... intensity of that week. i'm taking a step back and realizing that it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025