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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ), which before had annoyed me on plenty of occasions, and the podunk central ... ." Asking for help (or advice) is one bitter pill for an MIT student to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  website. This blogpost is the story of how I wrote that website. Play on it ... just happens to be the number of squares on a standard chess board! Funny ... ."]bitboard.[/annotation] A bitboard is just a mapping from bits in the number to places on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  have to use my body and voice to convey how I’m feeling (which is angry ... things better on campus. On Sunday afternoon, I didn’t want to leave the ... . '15 to write a blog about her experiences as part of the cast. This

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that ... , which ends with To be or not the choice seems clear enough but Hamlet ... "how is it possible to construct heavy objects out of things that don

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... , college is an amazing place to be, and lots of exciting things happen here ... last bid to say goodbye. But what if you held off on all that? Sounds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  (which is how it should be). One of my favorite moments on campus goes way ... , which is one of my favorite things to do. I found a copy of a children ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  !...their knowledge is much better. However, it gives people a sense of participation...(which ... , pen, La Verde's bag, jacket, or copy of Mad in America to constitute ... must take care...of our own world. There is no planet we can move to. All

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  number of people who wanted to go into agricultural sciences or veterinary practices, both of which are relevant to biology and chemistry. The ... . Maybe this struggle is a good sign of things to come. There’s also plenty

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  decided to take on. It seems this want to draw is shared amongst many MIT students, because this is one of the few classes that requires you to apply ... piece that would be added to our portfolio. Here is a selection of mine

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  . Dora: On a scale from super chill to 0 chill. I don’t know. On a scale of ... related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical ... and Tim scrambled to finish 18.03 which was due at 12:55pm. We finished

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which apparently means that I'm going to be ... cool projects, one of which involves running mice (this one is named 9M2) through a maze, and the other of which is concerned with examining protein

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  day of classes. I therefore had eighteen days' worth of summer to spend ... . That's not to say that I didn't absolutely love every second of the ... today?" and then do it. The rest of this post has nothing whatsoever to do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  campus is to the left of the frame; you can see the Green Building on the ... that role. There is no threshold of age or coolness after which you are ...       On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  , mostly student-driven welcome to you, on top of normal schoolwork, which we ... hussies", because you are the best judge of which school is best for you, I ... 'm getting at is that you will likely be able to find a variety of student

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually ... widespread loss of power is that many prospective students to MIT who were ... still require you to submit the application by the old deadline, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... watching Queen's Gambit, which is a show about chess. I happen to enjoy chess ... calling a trapeze a 'trap' is a universal thing or if it is just what my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  from him, on the other side of the hemisphere. Or just how nerve ... habitual, like stopping for a cup of coffee on the way out, or grabbing your ... , but nothing else changed, or seemed to. The amount of light in here was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS OF KETCHUP PACKETS, 33-541!) I'm going to be getting free food five ... to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  time, she’s been one of my role models. The why is a bit tricky to ... does is write great music, and put real smiles on the faces of millions ... Mass Ave, from Random Hall to wherever the exam will be held. A lot of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017