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• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn't actually write this entry on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  they want or coming back on campus and taking advantage of what is, in my ... "piston" (on the left half of the machine) to displace air to the cooler side of the engine. The air on the cool side loses heat to the outside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short ... even a trophy and everything. On the second day of class, we talk ... edges of the sights should be on the same height. It should also be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  wonderful result, reflecting on the midpoint of a journey through MIT as well ... . I’ve spent a lot of the past year especially focused on building ... large chunks of time to work on homework results in me wasting most of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... England sun beaming down on my face. So in the quiet solitude of the morning ... left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  chill on the fifth floor. Skullhouse is five stories and from one of the ... taking place on Allston St. Pictures and news of it were circulating all ... chairs on one of the docks on the Esplanade and sat there watching the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  grade at MIT. My birthday. And so on. I've cried over some of these ... week has been particularly rough on several of my friends here at MIT ... First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  going on in that room, and thus quite possibly a whole bunch of people in ... Originally, I planned on naming this entry “Cool Stuff at MIT” and ... actually goes on at MIT, and decided that said series would inevitably morph

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and the Geek, one of our very own MIT alums, is on the show. After LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  : • a very good quality paper with random lines of text that we typed on ... on the top of the memory mushroom when Anastassia gave it to us! 2 ... /programs of shows we’ve seen on campus (all of which were phenomenal!): • Jekyll

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  great advice on choosing majors, charts of requirements for each major ... seems that many of the admitted students already have an idea of what ... , what you wrote on your application has absolutely no bearing on what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  living at pika happens on the roof instead of under it. Pika's homemade ... on the roofdeck, absorbing plenty of delightful UV radiation on the ... Science) and live on Conner 4 of Burton-Conner. Basically, I've got a run-of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  Peak fall foliage has finally hit MIT. Some trees on campus started to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus ... ). I'm not a very good photographer, but here are a few images of campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  As many of you know, I'm an avid reader of the New York Times. Reading the Sunday paper is a favorite part of my week. During less busy times of the year, I'll do the crossword in the Magazine. Also in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  education, even if it's not one of these brand-name, looks-good-on ... In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  people here on campus as well as the millions of students on other college ... prepare for my 4-year journey that will probably include a lot of late nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the ... a lot of lacquer. I put a Union Jack on my helmet and was really ... front may or may not be the CEO of Hasbro ;) On a sidenote, we made a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  she has four years of life experience on me and everyone around us. She ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021