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• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and nothing else 🧄

  

  ;:)"]Mathcamp[/annotation]. In hindsight, it’s no surprise that I applied to return as a JC a few months later.  And when my offer popped up in my inbox, I thought perhaps ... , or Jolly Capper. I won’t elaborate in this blog, because as the title

  • by Joy X. '29
  • September 18, 2026
• Blog / Blog Projects

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  descriptions. MIT has published a new catalog every year since classes started in ... insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... long Professor Artin has been teaching algebra in MIT. It turns out he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  ="Campus Preview Weekend"]CPW,[/annotation] and a crowd is gathering in front of the ... piling in, tilting their heads up to stare at the dark facade and murmuring ... course remain anonymous, lead the masses in a countdown. When they hit zero

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... sophomore double majoring in [annotation note="Computer science and ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  walking around, with no psets or deadlines in mind.) In the summer after ... : I didn’t go in completely new–I’d attended a wheelthrowing workshop ... down in steps: 1) Pat the clay into a ball and lob it onto the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson ... ="107440" image2="107439" /] Can read more about Halloween on campus in Janet ... things I was really excited about. In short, there are about two times

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high ... .02[/annotation], [annotation note="Both classes in a semester plus January. If you ... kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... ’s taught by Professor Joe Maurer, one of the most knowledgeable people in the ... be in the social sciences (or something like that). This class counted

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  Stark, the John Harvard statue, and soon, my classmates. In the several months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence. standing on business, even. working on the ring design in private. In order

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... other. It’s neat having things in life that you can always count on to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three ... readings, in-class discussions, and essays). I really like Prof. Campbell ... suck less.  In general, I really like taking public policy classes. I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  things in vague pseudohaiku. Now where did the haiku come from? I should be ... . In case you haven’t already heard the news, CPW, which is this weekend ... are sad In its place is CP✱, a sort of CPW-turned-virtual, that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  you may undergo a process of re-adjustment in your place of origin ... for so long that you have it all figured out. One week in, I was back ... ?"]first midterm[/annotation] in 7.012 this week. I spent over 5 hours in the shop

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding school in the country’s capital. Mirroring Nigeria’s religious demographic ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  We’re sitting in my room doing pretty much nothing, because I guess we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015