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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... many students in Scotland, on the other hand, just go to the pub. It ... soon as they get their hands on spirits. Yet despite these isolated

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  me off guard. To me, this was fun. I get to spend every waking hour ... carrying on a conversation with my friends who are desperately trying not to ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  hard on your equipment) can throw off the entire system. (Ironically ... a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... -order coherence). We expect to get [latex]g^{(2)}(0) = 0[/latex] because that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how ... being on your own could be hard, but I didn’t realize that if you're not ... it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Gimme a “C”! What a bunch of the cheerleaders are up to this summer. Hint: It's not sitting…

  

  - Debt Capital Markets (DCM) Where? NYC Details: I get to work on a ... the cheerleading squad to see if I could get anybody else's summer plans. Since nobody on the squad responds to emails, I got four five responses

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and running lemonade stands. I'll get a real job someday.) Moments of pain are

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure ... 't really have time to study for. The website we were taking the quiz on crashed about two minutes in. I didn't get back to my dorm till 7:55pm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  how we used to go on play-dates to restaurants in Harvard Square and ... watching everyone else on my floor leave MIT forever and their rooms get ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  Tulip figured out how to hack the train to get the car to move to the ... timid 😂 We honestly don't even know how to put into words how much we ... change, how difficult it can be, yet ultimately best, to accept and embrace

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... begin to ask the questions and reflect on our use of technology, if we

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  my cohorts and I were escorted to the FAP lair on the fourth floor of ... themselves into an FPOP, allow me to settle your internal dispute: do it. You ... obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... reserving some time in your day to paint. ... A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  examining what determines hospital quality, focusing on aspects such as how ... on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... remember how weird it was to be back at MIT - I never conceived of coming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough ... ’s nice to be on campus. Really nice. But the longer I’m here, the easier it ... each other that, wait. This sucks. This isn’t how things are supposed to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  with your last few weeks? maybe check out selam's 'how to college ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard and back to satisfy a late-night ginger soda craving actually, finally

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if ... born. what a power it takes to say, and mean it, that your bones will ... life -- what a power it takes to let go, and watch, as your blood streams

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roadtrip! Spontaneity is my middle name.

  

  . Don't really know what I'm going to do once I get there, but I figure I don't need to, and I'm sure I'll figure something out when I get there ... So since the semester is over, and Boston is a little wet to say the

  • by Bryan
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  software development: how to write software that is safe from bugs, easy to ... retake 006 instead of taking 6.034 since I want to get credit for 6 ... comfortable making my own websites because I didn't think I knew how to make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  i don't quite catch on to material as fast as everyone else. the way ... this homework. it's something strange to come to terms with, how this ... i've ever had the pleasure of knowing. he taught me how to love

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  handful of essays to get through. I should be stressed out - really really ... sight and I haven't even begun to process and reflect on what the past ... and as my time as a blogger comes close to an end, I'm hoping I can get

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021