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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  is the Great Dome. Its head-on view is inspired by the original 1930s ... and placement are the same as the original 1930s ring." I loved the dome ... 'MIT' below the seal is stylized to mimic the 1930s ring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  EDGE/x is: it’s a two-year academic support program run by the Office of ... lead singer of The Smiths. It’s something that my friends from home have ... and Fabián’s impressed reactions to me singing along to the chorus of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  co-chair!!(also helloo '26s 👀) Hello! I’m Nora and I’m from ... Unlikely Hero.” My friend sent this, and it’s a bunch of Emperor penguin ... of a poem than a song. it’s called “Dasht-e-Tanhai" (I just got exposed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  to [annotation note="hi y’all"]newly admitted 2026s ... I see on reddit — there’s this sense that people want to know all of ... over life. This post is a bit tricky to write because it’s actually

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  is because I’m currently in MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT ... . To make a sphere, it’s much easier to use a semicircle and revolve it ... degrees. But thanks to my Subteam lead’s help, I was able to learn this, and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  with one person’s perspective on it that might be of use to anyone ... was a Monday puzzle and one of the clues was “MIT’s business school ... challenging and that in itself is worth celebrating. So here’s to new hobbies

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  embarked on some soul-searching and deep digging of MIT’s Course Catalog. I ... impact. Let’s start with creativity. Because my concentration within ... an amorphous problem that you are tasked with solving. It’s up to you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  , they all said that’s a really good question! and not one of them answered ... ."][/annotation] It’s been a bit over a year since that spring. Now, I have an anecdote ... a project to count salmon. Here’s the idea. Salmon spawn in rivers and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  /24, Friday): Drive to New York We [annotation note='She‘s such a pro at driving ... actually walk inside after hearing about it our entire lives. It’s kinda ... station and took up half of the building’s interior. I think the youngest

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  project, so here’s a list of the 10 most useful lessons. 1.  Lightning ... paperbacks in the 1970’s. As a cross country runner, I have poured hours of ... own learning, not someone else’s mistake. The vast majority of people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  repeat all of his father’s mistakes, won’t he perhaps get entirely lost?” to which siddhartha’s friend replies “Would you actually believe that ... safe from sin, from greed, from foolishness? Were his father’s religious

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... while talking to themselves. it’s difficult to get a meaningful measure of ... someone’s hairs are damaged we can feed in the relevant electric signals

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  best to avoid saying nothing at all. It’s probably true that, in college ... in high school. Yet, it’s also true that this school has made me a lot ... ; still do my best to read people’s body posture and facial expression and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  old east campus working through feelings caused by news

  

  . for burton-conner, that class year was the 2023s. and there are lots of challenges with this, not least the fact that the 2023s themselves only lived in burton-conner one year before it got renovated. in reality, the 23s

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  a story that let them know they were not alone. So that’s the story we ... ="Our teacher for eighth grade U.S. History in School B happened to be the teacher ... titled “We were the secretaries of our high school’s music department” if

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  -most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart[/annotation] but rather spending-all-of-IAP-on-opposite-coasts-apart! Here’s what ... * Activities Periods Allan’s IAP I arrived with my parents to Berkeley ... bus tour, since I was jetlagged. It’s only a three hour difference, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  there’s a way to balance the three as long as you're organized and realize ... website for MIT’s Computational Biology group. I’m really enjoying the ... -rich website and given free rein to make it as cool as possible. That’s why the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  Computational Media Design class, we used Scratch’s drag-and-drop coding to make 3 ... transfer over. I also took a seminar MAS.S64 EdibleBYTES, where we built mini ... to MIT? Nope, you don’t. It’s nice to know though, because MIT gives

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  leaving things until the last minute, or a classic case of Murphy’s Law, but ... , so I’m sure you already know what’s coming next: Lectures for other ... and sell it as a children’s book. As it stands, one dog making macaroni

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  in a chair in Hayden Library. Although arguably, it’s just a bunch of ... interwoven into the very fabric of MIT’s culture. According to the 2014 MIT ... subject matter. When there was no response, I took an upperclassmen’s advice

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014