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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... Tissues - One 12 page lab report on the superposition of effects of ... spring, I took 5.12 (Organic Chemistry I). The night before the exam, I

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of my favorite things about the MIT schedule -- we have approximately one ... /25 (Thanksgiving). The calendar, I think, reflects the fact that MIT students really

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the wrong tickets for the Chinatown bus, which we need to have changed mere moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  Ocho, in Miami's Little Havana. The Cuban sampler at Versailles ... the opportunity to meet and dine with the Tampa Bay-area Educational Counselors (ECs) before the Central Meeting. The Tampa ECs and I dining at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ... to Dorchester before, not even for bowling, I decided to enjoy the great weather and explore for a couple minutes. By the way, it's sunny

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A New Year’s Resolution, MyMIT-Style Thoughts on my proposal to make MyMIT more community-based.

  

  Happy new year everyone! I've been out with the flu most of this ... just blows. Most of the time I can ignore it and power ahead, but the flu seems to demand attention. Alas. Hoping to be back in the office tomorrow

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  Giant celebrations in Boston/Cambridge last night for the Red Sox' big comeback victory against the Yankees in the American League ... party, but, really, as much as my friends and I love the the intrigue of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  "At the core of many of his stories was a distinction between success ... still trump change among those who really run. As the years go by, I see ... where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the visual arts presence here (and in the greater Boston area) is super vibrant ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the ... assure me that all was well. At first I clearly didn’t know the meaning of the word, and was thoroughly confused by whether the side to side head

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  science?" The Registrar's office says that 460 students do not have their ... Science] (or 6.3, not sure yet), and Musical Theater. The question is, is ... -HASS Course are among the most logistically easy to complete, since every MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very ... comes to you in 4 parts. Part 1: The menu I write from ye olden days of ... on some of the classic American Thanksgiving dishes–turkey, mashed

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here, was that our memories can be more accessible when we write around the objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  The Summer Science Program (SSP), which is co-sponsored by MIT, is a ... collaborate to complete a meaningful scientific research project, learning the ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... year"]haven’t played the game yet[/annotation], Ultrahand is one of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation of the Super Secret Student Marketing Team. At that time it was just ... playlists. You know, vibes and all that. A year ago we expanded on the idea

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  what I need. It’s the first time in the last two years that I’ve stopped to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the words of one of my friends, ‘reshuffle my cards’. I feel spoilt- the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  -out refers specifically to phenomena in the occupational context and should not ... Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  A few Fridays ago, I sat down (as I normally do at the end of a long ... was a good-old three hours of minimal brain activity and the occasional musical sequence. When my younger brother hit the play button, I was already

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018