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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  -consecutive hours, 86 measures, five parts, thirty sheets of staff paper, and six ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i ... -hour performance optimization software labs, or the 90-hour mental

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there ... a gooey kind of reluctant understanding. During office hours my friend

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to ... 't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly ... hours) and ended up winning the costume contest. When the book premiered

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as ... adventures in Logan Airport during the last three hours, though, and this is ... view of the night sky for three and a half hours because THE SUN GOES

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  ,275, calculated at $9 per hour. This is more than I'm getting paid at the NIH. But ... you can spent 40 hours per week in the lab instead of the 5-12 hours ... more flexible hours and time-off for vacations. So, if there's a lab that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... for at least 40 hours of desk service every week. Also, she's been working all these 90 hour weeks with a violent illness. Seriously, it sounds

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  have sizing restrictions so we ended up just getting four 12x24 sheets to ... recipe but can be adjusted accordingly for your own needs: four 24x12x(1

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially interesting, and 24.902 Intro Syntax, didn't have readings. So the only class I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  Course 17 - Political Science & Course 24-1 - Philosophy, with a minor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone laughed nervously, “woahhh…

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  private school with[annotation note="and 24 kids in my graduating class :0

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  textbooks. Somewhat for 24.915 (Acoustic Phonetics) and somewhat for my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  Until very recently,⁠05 read, they still haven't kicked me out of the group chat yet. I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  I signed up for a healthy and sane schedule of 48 units and a UROP, but then I realized I could also sneak into a comic book class with the…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  This entire blog has this playlist. Enjoy. This semester was rough. This sort of sentence has been one I’ve had trouble saying throughout my time at MIT. Some semesters go…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  Song: Ramblings of a Lunatic by Bears In Trees Two months ago, I wrote about four-dimensional worms.  Specifically, the philosophical notion that people exist through time in the same way we do…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  Song: Down to Earth from Wall-E. “I found myself pleasantly surprised with how well she was able to hold my attention with math content.”- Anonymous Reviewer aka Jeremy in my…

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the Activities Midway or on Instagram. Arcturus is revving up recruitment this fall, and to spread the word (and…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  I’m not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on fire while trying to boil it.⁠20 it was in the pot with water and everything... don't ask…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022