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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  end. I don't want to call businesses to ask to make sure the food ... better and a dozen cheap thrills. I want to be tired when I go to bed ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... trying and failing to make change in their own lives, and I doubted an ... indulgence. I read How to Talk to Anyone (a wonderful, wonderful book) when I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  . You don't choose to have a disability. However, there are certain states ... relevant to everyone. People whose identities mean a lot to them may ... gave my spot to a minority." I have also heard people (@me) say "I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  myself for saying this when I have a kid later on, and have to make all ... how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference ... imparted a sense of weightlessness, probably similar to what a balloon feels

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ...  into these problems only to find a nonresult is heartbreaking, to put it mildly ... . Monday morning, she wakes up at 9:51 A.M., a situation you might try to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of ... the hallways, wonderful communities to join, and a whole city to explore ... ’d love to, I can’t put my mental state through a rigorous scientific

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  to make one of the bouncy balls roll down a ramp because the previous ... paired with a mentor in the Boston area to do an original scientific ... year I had applied to be a counselor, but I landed the job of AD. My boss

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... trying a friend's gummy vitamins ended up drastically changing my day to day life. A vitamin a day equated to sleeping easier, less groggy

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  our lobby to have a frank discussion about safe sex practices and ... ! The perfect way to start any CPW morning. Surprisingly, it tastes a lot ... ’s anything like last year’s, though, then there was bound to be a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  decided to make a super-retro 8bit blocky construction / run away from ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... , but my awareness of it doesn't make it go away. i desperately want to do ... to pick whatever's most urgent. [See: Appendix A.] I've been noticing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a ... soft, and just forces you to shut up for a minute. I’ll sometimes just

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate ... it to other animals), but you get a clean biologically-derived fuel out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish speaking country, perhaps for a MISTI or a GTL over IAP. It’s one thing to ... another to be able to speak and understand the language at a realistic pace

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  baseball to politics was like) "If you're making a true prediction, you ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  . Next fall you might find yourself wanting to be a Randomite (or an ... together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to ... to make… PANCAKES?! Dig into blueberry chocolate chip spicy cinnamon

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  nerd out hard core, so feel free to go back to homepage and click on a ... screenshot of course notes: This relates the NYC subway line to a concept ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012