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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... second was a multipurpose notebook that I handcrafted and bound in 8th ... recently completed one, which I finished a month ago is also multipurpose

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... recommend sending us a letter in mid-late April with an update on what you ... shifting can lead to a second round of waitlist admissions. It is a part of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  bedtimes aren't as early as mine). They planned a hack, and in my opinion, it ... , although I may be a little gullible, their sign is so well written that I ... called Futurity Island: essentially, a very very tall honeycomb stack of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  section leader position in a weekly Engineering Leadership Lab (ELL ... ticking. The shelter team was in charge of designing a rescue shelter under ... test a number of leadership capabilities in this simulation, and if the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  , is how a cripplingly shy fifth grader grows up to boldly ask an ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it ... ) additional information in case people ask you questions. If you're using a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... , that is a suction tube, reminiscent of the household Hoover. Upon insertion of the appropriate coinage, the lid of a chest freezer is magically

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  .   Everything is jarringly British in Bristol (wow what a shock). I know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  - so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass ... at MIT, which is a big part of the culture here. But I've been ... applications that this is my first free food in...well, long enough that I was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  thought it was a real video mixed in as a sanity check for labelers. [video ... ) that minimax is not perfect. However, it only ever fails in extremely ... tree branch swaying a tad too little in a gust of wind. Without me

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  of them: Chameleon Chameleon is a body art studio located in Harvard ... is a sort of rite of passage in Boston to get a piercing messed up at ... of which is in Central Square, just a quick walk from MIT. I went to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  need is a crash course in all things MIT, so I've spent my first few ... 'd want to work at MIT. The Institvte is a mental amusement park ... No I'm not a Cylon (or at least not that I know). But for those with

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  recipient of a Presidential Medal in 2001." I will post photographs of the ... address at last week's forum. "David D. Ho, M.D. (HST '87) is the ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in Tonal Forms II this term? Just a thought before I get some sleep: I made ... affection--they all feature sentiments like: Anakin: "To a most powerful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  … couldn’t deliver. The day after the exam, I laid in my bed for a while ... the bug in my 6.7930 (ML for Healthcare) PSET a bit faster. I wished I ... on me. In the end, a biology major likely wouldn’t have changed much in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the longest I've gone without real internet in a very long time -- when I went ... first lab job. With the NIH experience under my belt, I got a UROP in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  ’m improving so much!! I can get almost every shot in the black area of a target, and it is such a great form of relaxation. Strange, huh? The reason why ... really bad. I had a stress fracture in my foot, and I was stuck in a boot

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  , many of them run out of power in the morning - and electricity is a major ... ’Assainissement, which is the national Haitian drinking water association - they organize a ... meeting was with a man named Jean Francois, who was in charge of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  people around. but, this is supposed to be different, right? i am in studying in college in a big country, with my graduating friends flying to ... in some cases, this is true; some of my graduating friends are sticking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... features a beaver on the front. Why a beaver? Another interesting story. In ... the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  %) increase in something is already a reason for intervention. We're not really ... up in 3 alarm snoozes. There’s a two-step strategy to this: first, say ... biggest difference between the two: the VA is a place with mostly older men

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017