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• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in. This afternoon was the first warm, sunny, beautiful day we've had here for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I figured it would be cool to take ... Looking for Charms ... stumped Looking for Defence Against the Dark Arts

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  about Summer 2007 programs up until around January, but the info from last ... . YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... amounts of free time. Let's start off with the Center for Talent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The best picture we took in Paris Slightly delayed for some slightly successful attempts at photo editing.

  

  Science, and Applied Biological Sciences", existed in the MIT Course Handbook for 17 years without any faculty or staff, until the last remaining graduate student lost all contact with the department. Starting in the Fall

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

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

  

  the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite ... folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons ballpit. What I needed was supplies to make pies, something to hold the food

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  might’ve seen me mention that I spoke to The Washington Post for an article about Gen Z and the job market. As you can see, the word [judgment] is in brackets, meaning it isn’t part of the original quote. From

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  morning I had the incredible opportunity to attend the announcement and ... received an email letting us know that the event would be to announce MIT's 18th president!!! The email was understandably but delightfully cryptic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  mechanics, is two hours long; reading those posts gets me through the rapid ... the psets, untangling each other’s equations when they get in snarls ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... mediocre cooking supplies, which was slightly disappointing seeing as the listing said it had a kitchen. Secondly, we knew the bathrooms were shared

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has also been a little barren, devoid of many of the experiences that a year might usually have. There's still something about the turn of the year and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... a Santa Claus. Supposedly one of the most reprinted newspaper

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

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the fear. it's natural, it's instinctive, it's thinking that tensing up the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we DONE (sans my physics final next week rip lol) The last couple of weeks were busier than usual, but I didn't notice since I was doing, uh, the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  . I like their songs because they’re lyrically strong. Here’s the second chorus from Be Calm, the opening song on their first album: Oh, be calm, be ... classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  The Tech has an article out this morning about a new HASS ... share with you. First things first: as you may know, the foundation of the MIT education is the GIRs (our core curriculum), atop which you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the front while both my friends met Tim Cook outside of the bathroom."   Commencement. Two months ago. Wow, where does the time go? Summer's almost over

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... somehow made it thru rush-hour T-traffic to get to the airport just

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  See the original version of this post on the Office of Digital ... educational institutions. Now MIT is implementing the latest educational ... and resources outside the classroom. It is the “21st century

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry ... I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  1. When will the snow piles melt? Bragging rights to whoever gets this right. Specifically the snow piles in front of 77 Mass Ave. Once ... . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015