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• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  today is the 5th day of Mekawit, 2007. On the lunar calendar, today is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  google ^^;) 5. The Headmaster is charming and has a twinkle in his eyes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14 hours working on stuff for the MIT 100K Competition. I started helping out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  expensive”. Surprising, since you can get them for $5 in the states. I’d said

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  officially enrolled! Step 5. Get yourself to Harvard The inefficiency of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  to move at a speed of about 5 steps every 10 seconds (over

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  .091 Intro to Solid-State Chemistry I wanted to take 5.111 but my advisor kind

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus, just to share how my semester is going. somehow, 1.5 weeks into classes, i'm already inundated with work--but i'm not complaining. after two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  talk about vacations and compare temperatures (-5 here, -25 in Perm). We

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   woke up ~ 5 am today. it was early and the sun had not risen. i contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  It's Pi Day. I woke up at 5:38AM (a nod to Nate Silver) and walked to work. It was dark, and a bit chilly, but it's a big day, and we have a lot of work to do. So, when I arrived on campus, I was pleased to see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , March 5th at the Harvard Kennedy School and Sunday, March 6th at Harvard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  our shared mailbox. Exciting stuff! 9:05: Depart Conner 5. Isn’t our

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

   Chris Peterson already photo-blogged about the hack very well here. 5

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  . Aesthetic 5. Practical Readings Disclosing New Worlds, Spinosa, Flores and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  Clif bars today. Oops. 5) I got up at 9 today to buy groceries for a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  characteristic of less than 5% of the possible paths you could take. But during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  are within a 0.5 millimeter tolerance. The massive stone blocks were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015