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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  immediately positive. But a heavy physical system can’t simulate that sort of ... semester, I sent an e-mail to Helen Lee saying I didn’t get into the class ... month ago! I can’t believe I’m eighteen, although it apparently doesn’t

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  classes. For those of you who can't instantly divide numbers by 24 in your ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... handy!) Emily T. '15 came in and magically found the light switch, and Ian

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?

  

  . You haven't the faintest idea who those people are, or what that little ... FRIDAY EVENING reading about obscure saints?!) She didn't just Google ... /date/festival puzzle wasn't the only one she tackled that weekend. Her browser history

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  the season last night. I went because it wasn’t just any last football ... , Virginia. Alas, DeRon got a mild concussion early in the game, so it wasn’t ... of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. But they don't stop

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  inflection. Jess disagreed, unbitingly. I can't blame her much; Jess and I have ... long as said patron doesn't show up in jeans. Jean-Georges is not amused ... -moving. Anyway, eventually I sat. I still can't decide whether the literary

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  significant projects. Quick, sexy, independent projects usually don't result in ... , since besides 8.012, I didn't know much. But it was definitely good ... experiment. Unfortunately for my partner and me, we didn't realize that some

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  was nothing we hadn't heard before, it was still interesting to hear it ... extremely distressed leaving the admit party that my child didn't even want to ... consequence of another disorder, doesn't mean that a child can't do brillant

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  -than-ideal conditions have forced us to be better, because if you can't adjust to Field D, you literally won't be able to play. In that way, the frequent practice ... our tour! We didn't get to see everything, like the sailing pavilion

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that ... , things like that. Because I didn't want to write all of this stuff anew, I ... wasn't the most effective method to find how close each color was, so I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  knowledge, since the class goes at a rapid pace that doesn’t allow for much ... —e.g. making it to a part of a problem that I couldn’t reach last time, even if sending the whole thing still seems impossible. Reading! I so don’t read

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  an actual, documented, studied effect called the Tetris Effect! Aren’t ... isn’t. For something more fancy, color changes are cool too! Give your ... happier—this isn’t. 

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in ... 's website. I didn't feel like sifting through the actual dataset for a minimax ... wasn’t quite enough to win the NVIDIA board – another student had labeled

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  ! Read Anna Karenina, didn't like it that much Slaughterhouse 5 The ... there. The other Cambridge has this quaint town aesthetic ours doesn't ... side of my family in Turkey. I hadn't been there in 5 years, and I worked

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  doing some math and a lot of camp. Mickey Mouse™ won’t tell you this, but ... cafeterias. Don’t believe me? I have proof. [carousel image1="103895" image2 ... Boeing factory field trip. Maybe it can’t actually reverse time and take me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  that wasn’t as stand-out-weird. So when the introduction train finally ... looked at me, and was like, “huh. boysenberry. haven’t heard that one ... before college, but when I joined I decided that I didn’t want to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  the scattered light wasn't there. Researchers already have ways to ... well as missions like CHEOPS and [annotation note="I wasn't sure where to ... ="attachment_102089" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Who said scientists don't have a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  , and taking six classes. Many days start with a lecture at 9:30 and aren’t over until my last meeting is, up to 12 hours later. This isn’t a ... of life that drives me absolutely insane. They weren’t lying when they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  check the Orientation slack so you don't miss any of these deadlines. 2 ... undergraduate population. So, you don't want to be missing out on getting to know ... in the US so you don’t have to immediately worry about getting it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  21 in February! I don't talk a lot about party culture on the blogs ... festival. A lot of unhealthy habits, for sure, that I won't delve into too ... wouldn't have been the same at all without her. I am also so grateful to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  semester. I didn't realize I could grow to be so peaceful, or to look at the ... hobbies this semester, but found that I wasn't able to do that for a variety ... particular, but found that I broke my guitar in August and didn't find enough

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023