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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  -field-hockey-season-rest I had allocated for myself was officially over, so I should get my ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... sure. But for now, I have sold my soul to scheme (the programming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... childhood interests. I never thought that by going to college here I would be ... are designed by the higher beings that pretend to rule over the planet

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color ... 'm new to Matlab.) ... most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Checking My Calendar I know I'll eat my words come late September, but I'm looking forward to three…

  

  many classes we wonder when they get a chance to eat (if you don't have ... to fill in my calendar. By the way, as promised, I have the answers ... The New York Times has had an interesting set of articles over the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway for the title of Person Most Likely to Try to Entertain You by Talking ... characterized by only mass, charge, and angular momentum. At MIT, the no-time-for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  doubleshot from LaVerde's, and get ready for their first exam of the fall term ... after getting a 79 on my second 5.112: Chem for Masochists test. It wasn ... -para-n-butyl-blah-blee-blah-blee-blah" and get a 98 on your first exam. Emboldened by such an experience, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  November 6th, 11:59 PM, for SOME students affected by this weekend's nor ... affected by the storm will be unable to meet tomorrow's Early Action deadline for application to MIT. That is OK. There are more important things to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to ... to construct a bridge) -- [Getting started] I've got a variety of ... anticipation to see everything come together. [7:00 AM] Finally getting

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  to get COVID tested, and then to Dunkin for breakfast. Those days were ... teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... the 2nd floor and then again to the mezzanine. I sat for hours with my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  . It feels weird to be doing things for the last time when I already sort ... dorms you can choose to live in, but I wanted to get a place with my ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  amazed by how well i'm able to bounce back and keep facing forward rather ... is a hotspot for birders!) joanna always being willing to grab lunch ... hang out with me as i wrangle my worms or make spontaneous plans to get

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some a capella A concert by the MIT Chorallaries (7 pictures)

  

  solos... I got to sit behind the sound guy! ;) And, for the grand ... busy week for a capella, as there were also concerts by the MIT ... office by checking out the concert by the Chorallaries. Hundreds of people

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

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  trying to study for the 5.43: Advanced Organic Chemistry final. Just come ... . Maybe it was their first day. Ruth laughed heartily. I managed to get a ... This was supposed to be a deeply philosophical entry on the wonders

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  what we set the new password to. I didn’t end up working that night. I ... my classes— I still do. I leave enough time for myself to finish my PSETs on time and study for my exams. Knowing I need to do something yet

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  new restaurants, and to spend extended periods of time in nature. And ... , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  to present to my peers, the rationale for this being the intensity of ... past few weeks. also, i had shut away my internal to-do list for the ... ,[/annotation] so we took a picture by the camp fire and sent it to our professor, who

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is ... train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... make yet another 180, to be followed by several other twisty and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... we get to critically examine programming languages from a design ... people to show up to things and trying to get people to take responsibility

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them." This quote came from an F-15 pilot who stopped by to speak to the AFROTC ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  discussing with the new freshmen if they wanted to loft their beds for more ... into the room at all. So this year I was determined to get the beach ... through for me again- so I rented a UHaul, made an adventurous trip to Home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008