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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do ... digital photographer, through and through. This is what I do after a day of ... fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  or other, so I probably won't get a chance to do it tonight. Anyway ... celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush-infested Valentine's day crusade to deliver something like 2,000 love-infested "band-o

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  a time when I would otherwise have been studying or not doing laundry ... FASAP, an advising seminar for MIT freshmen that has not one, not one-and-a ... say that my participation in this program about which I've told you a

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

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... , and whatever the heck you do with a theremin to raise the potential ... Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  'sex'[/caption] My UROP: A lot of the stuff I was supposed to do for ... to do that for the sole purpose of getting swole enough to do a kip up ... COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  had a certain joie de vivre when interacting with people? yeah, that was ... see frosh interact, part of me is a little jealous, because how do they ... " means. you're doing a really good job. these things take time. thank you

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... wistfulness. It occupies my thoughts as a mere figment of my past; when I think ... evenings I’d spend splayed across my couch with a book, I feel as if I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  the dorm for a nap. I slept until 8 o'clock and then packed up to study ... productive. 12 hours is a surprisingly useful chunk of time. NEVER do it, it ... 's what everybody else was doing. "I'm doing it!" I thought, "I'm doing MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  visible on Google, so answering a question well on math.SE makes the answer ... Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  , pull out your device, and ask Google. We’re in a day and age where you ... I'm in the process of writing a post about my own summer, but in the meantime, I've got a guest post from my friend Elaine L. '18, who also wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Late last month, on July 25th, I boarded a Lufthansa flight from ... students. Like its counterparts in math (IMO), physics (IPhO), chemistry (IChO ... in a kind of academic olympics. At IOI 2015, 322 students from 83

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  's a lot of math! We continued work, coming on 1 o'clock in the morning ... finished studying and went to bed. I woke up this morning at 8 for a 9 o ... Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  more interested in sophomores or juniors. I do not have a resume. The ... do I want with a fourth one? (For the curious: my first job, as I ... detergent 3 rubber ducks More candy than a mildly aggressive trick

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  , but I figured I should doing something a little more intentional. A ... Google Calendar, any event that evoked a strong emotion, I wrote down. This was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a ... *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* Lesson learned--you should always have a backup

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  as I can before I guaduate. So far, I have been doing okay but could be doing better: close to MIT, there's Sapporo Ramen in the H-Mart at ... so I hear: I've yet to go) but it's good in a pinch and when you

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  part of a team, and getting out on the water every morning helps me de ... alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  MIT isn’t a political campus. Sure, it had its moments during the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  about getting help from a surgeon who got her degree online, Professor O ... and the course has won a prize from the Queen (see Professor O'Shea ... without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  or forget to check Google Tasks, as I am wont to do: "Feed Kristina ... from the somewhat ambitious "Find a UROP to turn into a thesis!" to "Keep ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011