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• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  release of Early Action decisions, we aren't allowed to blog on Saturday or ... telling on this kind of occasion. And now, it's nearly midnight, so I'm off; I'll re-emerge on the other side of finals, late Wednesday afternoon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... ://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/arthur-ganson/. His website has a lot of great pictures as well. I’d encourage all of ... of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  on Earth, and I helped Veena find a delightful new coat worthy of Kara ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... we were on the subway. At 2 PM in New York. The result was a Lucy and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  extensions on assignments, looking for a way to cling to the raft of life while ... assignments in on time. This semester, it has been week over week of trying to ... software, particularly websites. It's trying to cover a lot of ground and is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  of the boat! So the hard part was over. I sat down on the side of the ... .3% of all statistics are made up on the spot? ... on a tangent about my sailing PE class at some point. (If you were

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  "]whenever[/annotation] you want. Plenty of delicious blogs have already been written on this ... Go (TGTG) website:  We dream of a planet with no food waste, and every ... , you probably shouldn’t rely on TGTG as your sole source of sustenance

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  back. I look at the signs and posters on the wall and admire models of ... , I wanted to try a new route for getting there. Instead of walking ... As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  by Walter Lewin on neutron stars, and now much more of it will be spent ... Maxwell's Equations in integral form on Wikipedia. This is a new low for the ... Bekefi and Barrett from under a pile of crap. Luckily on the first page I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  passing thought. One of my new housemates lives west of me, within the US ... would pick me up on the other side. Of course, I'm a worrier, and I got ... dissociated. Was I really bringing boxes full of stuff across Niagara Falls on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are ... figured out how to track all of the admit packs going to international

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... mental bets on whether or not I succeed. So, out of spite, these are my ... , and sprint to class. Besides the stress of moving that fast, I was

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . Step 11: Go on with your day And so we did. The beginning of the ... narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... course road “filled” up (quotation marks because neither of us have future

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

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new ... ’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of ... , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I ... places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from ... the class. On the first day of lecture, the professor called on her ... by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  played a prank on us this year. Actually, the Brass Rat is one of the most ... 's book on the animals of North America and instantly chose the beaver. The ... . The first designs were that of the skylines (on the sides of the ring

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  the "Build Your Own Pizza" app on the Domino's website to order pizza for all the teams. MIT Natya is one of several dance teams on campus; I ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  The CollegeBoard's Website for information about the exams, and all of ... Well, I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday afternoon, and I'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  ...get permission, and paint it back at the end of the year. Some of the dorms on the east side of campus have looser policies, and some other dorms on the ... around on the website a bit if you'd like. In the meantime, any specific

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006