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• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to ... I went to station 8, which was the station for normal chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Fast Food Cooking for yourself (*gasp*) Dumpsters, free food mailing ... once a week, I get to eat with the brothers whenever I want. Being the ... “adulthood” that I am actively trying to avoid. However, I still must fend for

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  faculty and students to help out and/or co-lead and welcome ideas for new ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... . From novices who are just getting started to experienced people looking ... to taking for-credit classes, you can do for-credit practicum work with

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  support for a new circle constant. To get an idea of the scale of this, peek ... ]. One way to “derive” the formula for the area of a circle is by taking ... ’s The Tau Manifesto. I encourage you to read it for a deeper, more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... ="Proving things to myself, I think"]reasons,[/annotation] silly as they were, for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  will get to the place that is right for you, not just because of merit ... right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  lawsuits as long as they respond to requests for takedown by copyright ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... , and YouTube, and Wikipedia, and, for that matter, MIT Admissions) by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these ... could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  . This was nice to meet new people but also definitely exhausting for me ... , visiting family in Delaware and New York, and traveling to Cape Cod with some ... [annotation note="hi '28s! welcome to campus <3"]new class year[/annotation], and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  LOT. like a LOT. i didn't speak to anyone for three days after i read ... getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury ... answers to or clearly understand, at least not for a long, long time. this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... soon.  Therefore, on my way to get Frozen Yogurt on Saturday, I was super ... on our way to get Frozen Yogurt, we came across the actual battle scene

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  same values, was quite different from the MIT I would come to know (for ... school by its interviewer. I did keep up with Mr. Neighbours for a few years after I came to MIT. He was a great resource for me during the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting ... fast reader -- most books take me just a few hours to read. But

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  have to take my word or Google's word for it, since I forgot to take ... can get to Kendall Square by taking the Tech Shuttle, but in case you ... foot by considering that option. Allow me to demonstrate by using this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  just plugged in received its message, and decided to comply by rerouting ... Internet, unable to reach their new trusted gateway, reverted back to their ... out, he used it as an example to advocate for network security upgrades

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to ... A on the exam. Fast forward to the end of the semester and we see that ... speed bump and immediately look for ways to "show and prove" that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  . (By the way, being a TA for junior lab must really really suck. What a ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... , though, I think they complain about junior lab. It's best to come into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  for my art and not let it get subsumed by schoolwork and psets. This ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about ... rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016