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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  order to isolate the more notable parts of my MIT experience for the past month or so. Let's get started. I got a 100% on my first MIT test ever! Unless I got 20 points out of 20! (that is, 20 factorial), in which case I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  . Let me know if you found something interesting. Yes, Virginia, There Is ... editorials. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as ... 't: Toward a Pedagogy of Discomfort. This is one of the things I still think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  had when mit was online, because engaging high schoolers over zoom is ... ... being a high schooler is tough, man. being a high schooler in an online ... teacher wrote. "one thing is clear: mel loves biology." he talked about how

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT; I don't actually have it and I can't find it online, but if memory ... them is "earn 8 PE points" and I should really get on that because I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 who is course 20 like me and has aspirations of owning two Australian ... -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about ... ’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school ... school is what most people would associate with the art – following step

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  . Besides, what good MIT student isn't up at 4 AM? (Dear Concerned Parents: we do sleep. Really. Just not during normal hours.) *Jack Florey is the ... . My clever little paragraph up there is just a cute way of saying that a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  online for several reasons: 1) I go to MIT and presumably had a good enough GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... too much like a sieve. I saw a Tweet that says: if ur self-narrative is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair

  

  There are two things MIT students love—punts and puzzles. What a puzzle is—that’s pretty straightforward. A punt is more intricate, and is ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  search here if you want the extra few significant figures. MIT is close to ... and MIT, though I did forget the acoustic benches this time. Among other things, we went into the MIT Museum 20 minutes before closing, which was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . Another perk is that MIT students have free admission! The first exhibit I ... Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class ... knowledgeable, right? Another artist worthy of noting is Robert Johan Gustav

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  infinite corridor is total chaos as tourists and students battle for ... and with a full schedule. Here is a look at how I am keeping busy for ... honestly is pretty satisfying even proving simple limits and stuff that just

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  . The MIT environment is far from cutthroat, but that doesn't change the ... sobering fact the other day when I looked at my MIT blogger profile and ... , regardless of when your first class is. It's just easier than seesawing between

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  : The MIT graphic identity you refer to is of course one of several since ... place. The MIT graphic identity, for example, is composed of things like ... until 2003. But is 2003 really that recent? If MIT was a company like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT, which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is ... . As I understood when applying for housing, traditional is exactly what

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications ... DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... Verizon Wireless in my head. Why? Because Verizon Wireless is, in my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  . On Monday we talked about online algorithms in 6.854 and I was unable ... not prepared. I'm also one of the online logistics subdirectors and we ... couldn't find any motivation. All I want to do right now is lie down. Not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  without works is dead.[/annotation] The adage followed me to MIT, where it ... if any of these thoughts feel unorganized, my brain is unorganized ... arrested for no discernible reason. I sat through online commencement

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  finances is. There are a lot of contrived processes for things, so it's kind ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage[/annotation] is really supportive; I've already had two trainings for different

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  formula to one application - MIT is looking for more than that. The ... only because my TA is Canadian and says "molar mahss") so I'm less ... chipped in $35 and rented cars and a cabin (apparently, MIT students can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006