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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  learned about Gibbs free energy for an hour. There were a lot of partial ... /brain and cognitive sciences major is that I frequently don't have class on Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  well. I hoped to get free tickets to Carmen from the Council for the Arts ... , try it on for size. Have fun! ... early and take my free Monday off to get ahead. And so I did. Cue the fun

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by MIT's Undergraduate Association! "WAIT FREE FOOD?" That's right. You and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  places to fix bikes on-campus, free for anyone to use. While the Fix ... scooting around campus much less from now on :o For the past 3 years, my ... that the term “cruft” was coined by MIT students as a derisive comment on

  • by Paolo A. '21 G
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  people who can’t locate Tibet on a map would clamor passionately for ... My cousin was involved in the Free Tibet campaign when he attended ... story about some people whom he’d met at Free Tibet rallies who

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  unphotogenic). Blurred for your own safety. (Just kidding, my boyfriend doesn ... some of my closest friends around town at odd hours, it was hard for ... about how you'll start it during winter break. Plan on seeing it through

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  contents. There was a space on the envelope for me to write an address. I ... struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions….. Don't Panic!

  

  , decisions day (D-Day from here on out) is upon us and for the prospective ... 't the best choice for you. From here on out, changes in your life are ... school, take it by the horns. Carve out a niche for yourself, join clubs

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  most-of-a-buttload of stuff then sits on my floor for the entire semester ... feeling it for the first time. The joy of (relative) adulthood, of free time ... , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  , but as of recent it feels more like a chore. Every week that passes by ... excitement for what's really happening. Now, when I write, it feels emptier and ... , but I thought I'd shed some light on why I've been so...reserved in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  running our comparator on the same 2 numbers 40 log N times. For ALG to work ... , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... sum to 5 + 9 = 14, and so on. In this way, you don’t need to actually

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if ... , the kids got to make flat versions of themselves and the teacher had ... Sharp, the one who won the Nobel for discovering introns and exons??" Yes

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  affordable dining experiences run by students, for students. Hosted at unique ... have a reliable impact. Whereas working on, for example, a research ... tortellini on a Sunday morning for a friend, obsessing over the perfect acidity

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  sweaters that made me…suspicious.** It was nice! For once I went on a date ... something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on ... that I could simply not take any more for the rest of my time here. But I ... alternate titles include: on taking too many damn classes; should we

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

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang ... , and as time goes on, it becomes easier and easier for Zuko to listen to ... show's been around for like over a decade soooooooooo, y'know, there

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  together at the table outside next to me and put on a concert for those ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... sitting for more than 2 minutes. But those who could stand to talk to me for

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  on Wednesdays to get to know one another (led by someone you might know ... student might have. We’ve heard talks on finding proof for the Bible, and ... for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What do you mean by “MIT Speak”?

  MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.03, which is 5-0-7, for 6-2. At MIT, all of your friends would understand exactly what you're saying. (You have to enter "MIT Code" in the ask field
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  ’s home by myself. A subway is a subway, the hardest part (for me) is simply ... high-speed rail that is made a lot faster by levitating the train on a ... Seoul faster and more conveniently on the train than by driving, if you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016