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• Blog / Advice

  Lies in MIT, lies about MIT these are the lies that i tell myself at night

  

  of junior fall, I lied to my advisor for the first time. He looked at ... these ways, MIT isn't hard because I chose for it to be hard, it just is ... want to see you again". It's like this for a solid minute, until the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from ... used to feel like home, dusting off once-beloved keepsakes. these days, i ... , sometimes amused by who i used to be, sometimes saddened. whenever i think

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  recreating the Monty Hall problem (anybody got two goats to spare?) writing ... classes this past semester. to make matters worse, this class was tedious ... this class that I brought my problem sets to ring delivery. [caption id

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  't enough for you or right for you, it's easy to start your own. Some past ... to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34 ... to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  mailed out on Friday!" It seems Mother Nature had other plans for me. I got to Dulles International Airport (designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  ’t understand and lyrics of prepubescent pop stars I already can’t relate to. For ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  there is still deciding where to go for college. happy decision day ... approaches. for those of you who've already decided to come to MIT, yay ... boring (to me). things i did "just for fun" ended up teaching me very

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because ... a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  , and suddenly (like magic!) I had enough energy to keep going for a while ... we stopped for a proper break. I had to do that a couple more times ... arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  brought me home for IAP, which has been a blessing. Being so close to home ... Congratulations, universe. You've managed to put me into another... unique situation that is mildly difficult to explain. "Hey Connie, what are you doing

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it ... suitemates have joked about, for instance, saying hi/bye to me for a week. At

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  just wanted to capture this feeling for now before I fill in the details ... Agency for Technical Relief on how to use our kits before leaving them here ... It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  an MIT professor, Rodney Brooks. To pay for research, the start-up sold robots to colleges, research labs and government agencies for eight ... company chairman and was responsible for pitching the idea to venture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  !) CMS.300 - Intro to Videogame Theory; Excited for this class mainly ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... really wanted to build one for myself, so I knew I had to compete ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  for the oven to get ready was a bit boring. I commented on her cool key ... [/caption] I returned to the Crafts Lounge and started scavenging for better ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most ... should wait for the rest of the foot to hit the ground before moving the ... move that is not too heavy for the back of the foot the next thing to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... connoisseurs we pretended to be. When the snacks were all gone, we'd return for ... . Miso Ramen Soup It's really hard for me to find ramen that doesn't use a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017