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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  're allowed to paint the walls (and have cats and smoke, if you're into that ... comes time to choose your living groups (because, you know, it's only ... to do. I hope you all have a relaxing break, and a great start to your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  smarter than some other ones we've come across, so we could use your support. With all the recent varsity team stuff, it can't hurt to show our teams a ... . Budget cuts around the country may be forcing a lot of colleges to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  the period where freshmen get to meet and join living groups they ... just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... traffic around them and were trying to get the interest of freshmen who hadn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  . I wanted to get into the best schools, I dreamt of MIT, and, well ... to do research, focus on weather and forecasting, and get a PhD. Now ... needed to get back on the grind. From my [annotation note="though in many

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... making an effort to get off-campus more frequently, even if it's just to ... remember why it was that I went home, but one Friday I took the train down to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... reading led to this: (I call this one Shoot Buttons, I Knew I Should Have Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the ... not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  to scream. In a single moment, shaking under a stream of hot water, an ... home. I’d come out to my parents. I’d failed my first MIT exam. Looking ... , anything that reminded me of the things I’d decided to leave behind. As I

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not ... to Hippie Stereotypes, DIY clothing workshop, telephone pictionary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll.  Which MIT professor is your pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  Hi everyone! Just finally got caught up with answering your questions here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out ... Bio... the list goes on. My question: what are your predictions for 100

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  sometimes, but this semester proved to me that I can get it done. 2.009 pushed ... coming year: get more rest. I pushed back a lot of responsibilities to ... getting to collapse, I had to write two final papers, an application essay

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  to get out of my room other than just getting lunch and getting tested ... today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... indigenous people connected to this land. american colonialism and oppression

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Notes on Cancer rate my handwriting

  

  can get to [annotation note="now that tumblr is effectively dead, are we ... .[/annotation] That's such a cool sentence to type out. In the past, I've had issues ... an exam. This semester, I'm going to experiment with rewriting my notes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My ... backgrounds) Here's what I didn't have to back up before doing this

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  call two places home and I have many different people to call when I get ... cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  say, but now I have to get ready for tonight's presentation in Tampa ... just this question, but I gave a short answer and deferred to my colleagues. I promised the student I would link to the latest ZigZag video

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  ’s nothing to say here, except that it turned out that the air compressor Zach bought at Target operated on a 12 volt car battery, so he had to get ... , decided to welcome her return with a nice poster:   And a few ballons

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006