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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  perfectly possible at MIT. Sometimes you just have to do a little planning to ... 's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  as a grad student. You might get to do it as a postdoc. This is ... in town that you can do those things on a budget.) After that, we went ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been inducted into the Best of the Blogs, a great honor and my second post to do ... these last two posts were just me typing furiously on a keyboard for a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  , the Big Game is made in a completely new way! why do we love the Big ... do? Or what if it looked like a normal game-problem, but had very ... a while to figure out what to do, but the game-problems are

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  . In fact, if you don't do any Rush as a freshman then YOU'RE DOING IT ... getting a bid. That's right, I spent 2 weeks with this fraternity, doing ... Do Not Need To Live In A Fraternity To Feel Like You Belong. I live on

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  . But it’s also a bit of a comfortable spot to do some reflecting and ... ’ll have a lot more energy to enjoy what I do. I hope that this also keeps ... feel like doing sprinkled around the work time, I get a similar amount

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  same way, what we should keep doing in a different way, and what we should stop doing? What conversations do we want to be a part of, and ... completely redesign our website (as well as the website for SFS). It will be a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  explanation. Is there way I can send along a picture of what I created?? Do I ... that's what I want to study and later do in life. Is there a majore for ... details on how you start a project to enter into an Intel fair? Do I just

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  part of my major, and after this it gets a lot better.  I really do feel ... actually never thought I could do it.  I thought that MIT didn't give A's for ... reports, and every once in a while they do it! My third technical class was

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  MISTI and my buddy Chandler is doing a missions trip through Breaker of ... summer on track. Make a "101 Things to Do" list for that city or area ... For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  and a left, a front and a back. This has to do with the fact that animals tend to travel in a certain direction, facing forward when doing so ... : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  20 Things I Learned In 2020 from a course 20 who is in her 20s

  

  do my part in trying. A smile can go a long way. It is not my job to ... . Enough said. There is a huge community of local mappers who chart out ... to use. Cartography is still very much a thing. It's okay to not be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  here’s your reminder to follow @tinycarebot automated reminders to care for yourself

  

  do that. It's called @tinycarebot, and it is a Twitter bot that MIT Ph ... ;       A snapshot of our incoming email traffic to the ... . That's ~22.5k new cases, with an average response, from a human, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  a general handle on what was going to happen: we’d do a table read of ... act I: prologue When I was a kid, I used to dread going to sleep. I ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t really scared of doing anything! That said, I also think a good lesson from ... Hello again, internet~ It has been a while. Well, actually, I’m on ... , it’s been a lot more work already, but actually, I think I enjoy my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it's just once every two weeks as part of a co-op? Or do most kids just end up eating whatever is quickly made?" 2) "If you (or anyone you know) has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to do or not to do something; *New Year’s Resolution: On Jan 1, it means ... times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  around without a clue as to what I was doing, I finally.... ...gave up and ... So. I decided that I needed a new banner. Alright, so that's a lie. Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  November 2004, so I've got a handle on what I'm supposed to be doing in lab ... 've started making a summer to-do list), and also looking forward to doing some ... So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  that I wanted to try and do a minor in course 20. I figured I'd start ... building cool things and having a lot of fun doing it. One of my close high ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012