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• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  't try googling it. I made up this word, but you know exactly what it means ... hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the one I’d written would linger in my google drive, not fully ... practice together that week, but already we felt like something bigger. # I ... dye their hair. It sounded up my alley; I love writing, and this would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  . Long tangent and explanation incoming, per usual. I think the last year ... The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from my cave of despair to blog again! I've made this post two years in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent ... then, I’ve had an inverted sleep pattern I’ve been too lazy to change. It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going to go off. I go and look at my computer (which is supposed to be my ... 's battery had completely drained. I wait 20 minutes for the shower, and then

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about the last two; I just started with ‘relax’ and ‘recharge’ and then felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  schools. Incidentally, when I Googled my name the first page of results ... I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: new HASS concentration in Computing and Society studying humans? studying computers? porque no los dos?

  

  concentration in Computing and Society that I am stupidly geeked about and want to ... and depth in a single field. As I mentioned in my blog post about the ... concentration, I have seen just tremendous, insatiable intellectual hunger in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... Hogwarts! (I also recently watched Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which, although I have Many Nerdy Opinions about how relatively good

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  school. I google whether eating only boiled eggs and apples will give me scurvy. I walk to Trader Joe's and buy a 5 lb bag of oranges. I google ... i. I took thermodynamics last fall, where I realized that a bomb

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  the number on google and came right away even though i didn’t tell him ... build a life after." I said sure, and she wrote this post. I had planned ... stayed in drafts. However, I thought it was still relevant, both for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  A month and a half ago, I posted the first part of my series introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  cancer, and otherwise having no fun at all. I know this is a common misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  had to volunteer to host, so the bloggers aren't automatic hosts. (I ... decision. I would really encourage all of you to ask lots of questions this ... responses. I would also encourage you to explore all the dormitories and as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  comments, so I thought I'd help her out. Dionysian said: "Why are you guys ... networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... the hacks when they get put up anyway). I know this because I talked

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  ’s because with everything I need to do, with the blank spots on my Google ... Last Thursday night, I was walking back from Simmons after making dinner at Pika for the first time. It was kind of cold, and I was tired

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  i have taken two thousand, four hundred and forty photos since i came ... , one after the other, in perfect linear narrative since i first stepped on campus. but i’ve found, increasingly, that memories don’t work that

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  , but four physics problem sets per week hurts even more. Perhaps I ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And sometimes why? A reality check on the state of my MIT blogging.

  

  landmarks. Well, here's why. So I got to MIT three years ago and I found out ... next two years, I decided that if I didn't learn a foreign language, I would be an utter failure as a person. I was losing my tenuous grasp of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  , which I believe meets for 2 hours per week only in the spring Really, it ... quiz. That's pretty uncommon for MIT as a whole, but I've had a few ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006