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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... . (Sidenote, for reference: "normal" courseload is 48 units, and one unit is ... developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... 's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... they are relatively uncommon. There's no set policy for all of MIT. On

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... are names of real places. I've been here for two days and I'm really ... cold for several hours (Jebby got a food coma because she ate so much

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  Area Four (A4) is a popular pizzeria/cafe near MIT. Known for their ... -to pizza spot for many MIT students. But not me. I am A4's biggest hater, as I believe their pizza defies all known laws of reality. For one, the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... guilty for not constantly tooling. To my amazement, the wallowing never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  “The muscles of my soul, longing for the opportunity to feel and fear ... report that I got exactly what I was looking for. Amongst adjacent ... . For every bridge burned, there were some incredible, genuine connections

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  we stayed in Caetani Castle for a week. We hauled our luggage up the ... me two days of begging Admir for him to promise to open the doors over ... memory[/caption] For lunch and dinner, we would go down to a little

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions ... digression: through a stroke of luck, my car rental reservation for a sedan was ... collect temperature and cloud data for NASA with the Globe Observer citizen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I ... most known for its dining hall, for better or for worse[/caption] Right ... still uncomfortable enough for me to throw them in the laundry bag. Taking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about ... for getting to the final product. Learning to interpret and work from

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  exciting and terrifying since I'll be so far from everyone I know. for most ... final projects, or cram for finals in classes I haven't attended in weeks ... my best friends, one of whom will be in Italy/Denmark/Taiwan for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  "Make Way for Ducklings" statue[/caption] The "MIT Bubble" is definitely ... a tourist visiting Boston for the first time. BTW that's supposed to ... if I had pictures of skulls engraved onto tombstones. This was for her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  hearing about it. regardless, everyone admires you for being super ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... time for you to drop some commitments and take some time to chill and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  you’re on your own, kid

  

  relationship; in fact, I think it was incredibly good for me to be in it. I ... , about who I can be. But I'm grateful that for the indefinite future I ... on for the past four years? How does one even go about [annotation note

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  value our relationship so much for that, but to paint it all as simply ... good or what one should automatically strive for, but that’s for a post ... all of its miracles, but that was backpropagation: searching for the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  22 to 28 will pass in the blink of an eye, and so on. thank you for presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think ... came across the following paragraph: Lately, though, I’ve searched for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been dancing for two hours. At midnight, the band said goodnight, but the crowd

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... science, so I registered for it as my [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... was going to last for, and the economy was steadily nosediving, and I ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  like it's right there B: well for me it's more like B: a maze of switches ... A: i think i just have so much hate and resentment for myself A: that i've like, built up over the years A: for no good reason B: same B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022