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• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  choice between studying an extra two hours for a test and doing a critical ... announcing that it was an "Ashmont and Braintree train." Take a look at this ... now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  percent of it. So, if I were to do a full photo entry on all of Berlin, it ... Alfred Wallace, who sent a letter to Darwin describing a similar idea one ... Cold War built right through its center and accompanied by a 150-meter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... movie) and crash into bed early (that 5/3 of a day thing I talked about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  Boston, I'll find you a place to stay and show you around and we'll all have a great time." However, still, it's one of those things that I never ... baked them a cake. Unfortunately, I had turkey carcasses to attend to at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  doing. We boarded a repurposed school bus (there were a bunch of young ... who do things in order to talk about them (like me)” I, too, belong to that species now because I’m a blogger, so I’ll tell you about what I did

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  do and what I have apparently ended up doing have failed miserably at ... late nights are precipitated by something concrete and urgent: a pset, an ... every night with a mid-afternoon nap to boot, but sometimes, I don

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  We all have those weeks. Some sort of tragedy happens - a death in the family, the death of a friend, the sadness of a friend, an angry anonymous email, the hospitalization of a friend or cat - these all are very

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  the only independent living group at MIT? What if I have to do a cooking ... Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... ). Small wonder that I still recall those warm-hued summer days with a mellow

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back ... . My phone, however, is a different story. The problem with the phone

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  just means i have to prioritize earlier) I do keep a Post-It pad with me ... full semester, considering I'm probably also doing a UROP, so I'm not ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  . Despite that, I felt inconsolably bad about the exam for a few days. It’s been a long time since I’ve so thoroughly bungled a test. There are many ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  of translating a 3D form into 2D, while live drawing makes you do just ... since starting college. I've made a ton of art for my clubs at MIT and for ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  open, speaking, her eyebrows furrowed a bit.   CAMI: Do you think ... first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... illustrate it, but I thought it would be a neat challenge to illustrate it and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT’s COVID-19 precautions and their impact on admissions relevant news and next steps (updated 4/14); new blog posts below 👇🏼

  

  discuss what we do instead of a conventional CPW (and other complementary ... also appreciate that it is the prudent thing to do from a public health ... you are enrolled. You may find it useful to do so for your own learning

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 6, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  , there was conversation about things one could do over a gap year. it seems ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... and results deduced. today, i am observing at Artemis, which is a 1m

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  configure our camera, but in the end, all we do is we look at the sky. it is a ... right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A ... front of Stud! I do not know what for, but a friend, Melissa D. '25 ... meeting of MIT Wind, a club for the DoE collegiate wind competition!!  The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite ... calculations were wrong, and there isn’t a transit today at all?” The second ... Venus is a fairly predictable thing.” He paused, switching the settings on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  's Blood wouldn't do us any harm, they mean that having a drink wouldn't kill ... I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... wanted to take a music class and this seemed like the most bizarre and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  ’ve decided to do a post dedicated to my favorite number. Here, [latex ... ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... that is tau, alongside a few anecdotes about tau, MIT, and myself c

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021