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• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... to, very objectively, determine whether or not you’re overcommitted. It ... reflection that I was, in fact, fairly curious as to how I actually spend my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... Nick, on his newly furry face) Tomorrow, it's back to numbers, p ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  listening to a nurse say "puff our your chest like a girl puffs out her boobs ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get ... cursing Hurricane Sandy for postponing my oral exam to 7:30am on my birthday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  (Still) Celebrating the 150th! Boy oh boy is it delicious (and free!)

  

  groan, now.) MIT is a fairly unique school when it comes to on ... but this to say: you have to try a burrito from Anna's. If you're up for ... sources of graphic content. Also, how am I supposed to center captions with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and ... , but the conversation snippets are fun to listen to. "Dude, you're teaching THAT to MIDDLE SCHOOLERS?" and "how'd swing dancing go?" and "food

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  last night working on my ICE-T ("ice tea") problem set. To answer James ... hydrogen, because that could explode and kill you while you're talking to ... prove that you actually know how to do chemical engineering before you go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  disposable camera I’d taken pictures on to CVS and get its film developed, in ... rhythm of speaking to your best friend again, after forgetting—but not ... dream you’re reminded of after waking—how the back-and-forth of our voices

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  My Life Is In Shambles… … and that’s ok

  

  (primarily, sleep and food deprivation). I was trying so hard to hang on to ... how badly I was struggling. Not that my friends didn’t notice (I like to ... most permanent aspect of how (if you’ll excuse the pun) [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 26, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their ... -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  , are we there yet? How much longer do I have to walk to get where I want ... holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... lied to my entire life? You’re telling me I must sit here now and accept

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... 's a question) if you could tell me how easy it is to double major in two ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  lot? That disappointment took us back to the 24-hour grocery store on ... out on dorm row. Passers-by don't seem to realize that their conversations waft up to my room - heads up, in case you ever find yourself on a 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  of random things. Then I realize I have work and get back to it. It ... ’.  Monday  12:30 pm I get on a call with one of my pod mates and ask ... to catch up. She’s just moved out somewhere to the West to live on a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  is made out to be, depending of course on your time management skills ... considering how terrible some weeks can get. The rest of my night is so relaxed ... , something that I think gets lost in all of the excitement that does go on here

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  observed that "your last name* maps to a rare earth element whose compounds ... entrance, that's GREAT: you have time to break the ice! So, before your ... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  to stare at the Great Dome, still in disbelief that you’re actually ... class wouldn’t change one bit. From learning how to use the machines in ... hometowns were like. But no matter how close we were getting, it didn’t truly

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely clean. Just one more thing to add to how busy I already am, rebuilding my computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Where I Call Home california california cambridge!

  

  world I came from and how I ended up in this strange little bubble on the ... morning to a warm weight on my tummy, the little gremlin dog I called ... laying down on the hardwood floors arms wide open as Snickers came over to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Disappearing (or life goes on) .

  

  you're interested, like I've been threatening to do for some time, I ... I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  to see and one of them suggested that I talk about how I personally ... Minecraft was dying, I leeched on to other creators, mainly going to the indie ... community to play on a server with them. My particular favorites are Tubbo

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020