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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ,000, even $50,000, equivalent to the payday salary of a “computer designer” in-game. The reason that The Game of Life has to quantify life experiences as

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  managing your time since the beginning of the semester. (Note to future self ... dreaming of schools where they didn't have to worry about getting wedgie ... fell asleep at nine. So when I have a lot of work to do and don't feel

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  insanity tldr some of my habits make no sense

  

  be like to live your entire life in that state of forced indifference ... day that i’m aware of and enjoy adhering to, and i think those are ... happy there are moments where i force myself to stop caring about

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  website outages, it’s easy to forget nowadays that MIT is a tech school. Luckily, the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) is always ahead of the curve, using ... With all the WiFi problems in [annotation note="One of the big

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  opportunity to put some of your thoughts in a textbook. I've had the distinct ... exposure to a wet lab (a lab that makes use of chemical solvents. Examples of ... Center. Plasma physics is a tough branch of physics to study, particularly

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  Like many of you, I have been playing Wordle, a game where you try to ... that I talk to Wordle about. Today’s [as of writing this] was ... “distance” between two words. Word lists and data come from Google’s corpus of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  fact. With the help of notes and rhythms, we are able to paint a picture ... creating a work of art. And to create a brilliant work of art, you not only ... excellent. It demonstrated, to audience members, the importance of a conductor

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  weeks of emailing, trying to get in contact with people working with water ... . His reluctance to answer ANY of our questions, even the seemingly ... returned outside shortly afterwards full of excitement. "You have to come in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  , students work in large teams of approximately 15 to 19 individuals to design ... previous years). At the end of the course, teams present their work to a live ... It's that time of year again! Final Projects Time! Finals Time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds like home Quarantine songs, from my home to yours

  

  as any to save this post from the crowded purgatory of [annotation note ... musical roots to combat the negative effects of quarantine. In truth, I ... communications. I offered the idea to make our own MIT version of Chilled

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... say about me? i’m reminded of a poem i enjoyed recently: “They aim to ... response to the question, but i’m pretty sure it was a combination of “not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  I persuaded to come to Mexico as well. As a digressionary piece of ... impression is that at least a good majority of students who apply to MISTI do ... the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... were a professor asking this difficult question to a group of incoming ... the world?!” Not to mention that some of their faces would look like

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  to the Museum of Science, and all we had to do was to give her our name ... to a few notable ones: Theater of Electricity All three of us are ... of materials like straws and paper cups to make a “satellite,” and the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  . We were trying to develop an efficient method of promoting cellular ... thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... humility, all of which she displays so effortlessly. I'm grateful to have her

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  feels more salient to me, rather than finals "week." Here's an overview of ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole "having friends" thing. This semester, I got to see more of my old friends

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of ... beginning of the year, recruiting impressionable freshmen who want to get

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... master of div, grad, AND curl!!!...which is to say, I'm having a real good ... (which I don't), it's mandatory to have at least some sort of meal plan

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019