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• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  treatise on how to gain weight and never let it go, 2) a poem of seemingly ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the ... natural habitat, my 5.112 notebook. But confusion is a good thing. To me

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to the site, the online voters will "make the final choice, which will be ... who wrote scripts (computer programs) to "stuff" the ballot box. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  obviously only applies to for-credit subjects) and a few other restrictions ... pretty much a mess and I haven't folded all my laundry, but I'm making a ... will be pretty necessary. I've found a team to join annd I'm definitely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... to compensate by progressing in difficulty at a slightly faster rate ... distilled into a form gentle enough to be diffused into our frail young minds

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  GRA would make waffles for our hall; a particular fencing meet; walking ... translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... energy to. But unlike my previous sidequests, I'll have a lot of time - and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  like to use a lot of extended metaphors--tempering iron, making porcelain ... the other bloggers have been blogging a lot, too!). To returning readers ... skills (though that definitely improved a lot too). It was the ability to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  . First, an applicant should never assume something to be true about a ... activity. Do you think I'm overreacting to have found this a bit appalling? I ... lower/middle-class kids can't or shouldn't make time to daydream, or the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to ... responded saying he’s too busy this semester to be a supervisor Decide to go ... Email a third professor because you are starting to lose hope of getting

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death ... stood. That'll show my mom not to call my drumming a nuisance

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  was kind of sad to think about for a while. Really, Allison? You have no ... they’re definitely a great way to connect with other people (hence the frequency in get-to-know-you questionnaires), so I was still a little

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually turns into a marathon Futurama-watching session. I'm using my IAP time to ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  tickets to a performance of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freisch ... class burst into flames of the warring variety, and I was treated to a ... want to make the point that the entire ordeal in real-time was treated

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  on a roof or behind a door that is supposed to be locked does. however ... major updating is supposed to be done soon, though that's been true for a ... Little Dome in ten-degree weather, or making the information kiosk play a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  allowed to live in a single room?" There are actually two people in the ... means people are forced to "crowd" a room by turning a double into a ... available, and if you make a note on your housing preference sheets and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... has taken on a concentration in writing, which requires her to take ... , connects sounds to colors, rather than symbols. Imagining a sound brings to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  here. So we decided to create Independent Studies (which was a whole ... interest us and apply those things to the creation of a short film. We just ... we did not know what we would be able to achieve by creating a short

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s the School of Science like?

  questions: What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the content of our universe? How does our brain—a complex system of interconnected neurons, give rise to our mind—our consciousness and ability to
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  , and I’m just using my normal pen, so I don’t have to make a lot of ... outside world, so I’d like to take a moment and reconnect myself with what ... list-based posts this fall as I would have liked, I present to you a list

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... need to give you some context: a ridiculously eventful Thursday. A BRIEF ... due to the sleep deprivation. Not only did I have a powerful urge to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  .  however, this does not stop us from trying to make the claim into a fact ... [annotation note="jebby & fatima, kai & uzay to name a few ... , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024