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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  to generate the ideas that will bring technology and society into the ... think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... bedtime? between midnight and 1AM usually 020. What time do you arise in the ... ? i like both, but usually coffee In the last month have you... 031

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  My brain's been on overdrive from the moment I stepped foot onto MIT, hopping from one event to the next, pset to pset, club to club. Every ... . Potential so tightly strung that one little mishap could release it unto the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  confronting the self i am the captain of my soul

  

  format the post so that he posts, so be it. look, dan, cj has a duty. he ... 's part of the job description. if he doesn't do it, then he's not doing his ... 're already be— cj: okay, shut up. the two of you, shut up. dan: … alan

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  barely enough room to walk in the hallways, let alone room for much ... , counting down seconds until the next class, and over and over again. I ... learned that even GIR classes want you to do more than use the equations

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  freshman lecture size of 400? One of the quintessential features of American college is the big, spacious rooms where lectures take place. When I ... , taking a class surrounded by countless other students. Similar to the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Courage to Change Even Through the [Tough] Mud[der]

  

  a lot! So much so that when my friend offered me her ticket for the ... through Boston and tried to run to the airport [ [annotation note="although nothing is possible with the heart of the cards 😏 jk please don’t do this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  I have always loved writing. I have always enjoyed the freedom of ... narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  these days, feel as if they've lost a lot of time to the pandemic. the sophomores and freshmen have never experienced "normal" campus life, and the ... time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  college, per se. We don't need to spend the money on a huge, beautiful quad ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  , only for it to ultimately reappear under the couch.) I don’t know how long alumni typically wear it – I’ve spotted it on the fingers of a few ... tempted by the fruits of Silicon Valley or otherwise find their passion

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of anxious students and family members who are going through the college

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , which I came to appreciate over the two years that I did this research ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and you save the world. That isn’t how it turned out, though. I started the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is nothing new. Usually I enjoy the walk, but when the weather sucks or I ... carry me. But sometimes, the Tech Shuttle is so far from the nearest stop

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  The Putz-Tetazoo exchange program is a longstanding tradition where a resident of [annotation note="third floor of the east parallel of the dorm ... ="second floor of the west parallel of East Campus"]Putz[/annotation] swap rooms

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  [caption id="attachment_72593" align="aligncenter" width="1170"] the ... , the prequel I've wanted to go into computer science since seventh grade ... the NSA and the tour guide I had was really uptight and that kind of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk about the MIT THINK Scholars Program, which I had the privilege of taking ... , I’m on the committee that runs the program (along with Cami, Alan, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  admissions.  Even though I have observed many changes, including the transition ... -necessitated innovations like the now ubiquitous interactive virtual information sessions, I remain most interested in facilitating the reflection and investigation

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  be cOnSuMeD by the lab. ENDLESS. Helper functions. Helper functions for the helper functions. Functions to make test cases. Helper functions for the functions to make test cases to help me figure out what the FLIPPIN

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  tl;dr: MIT lets you drop subjects basically at the end of the ... Atlanta to attempt to fly back to Boston since essentially all of the ... so that I could go home for less than a thousand dollars. The fried

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018