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• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  different ways an forced myself to have a go of all it and blah blah blah But ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  restaurant closed, we were forced to eat dinner at Mama Clorinda, a semi ... recommend attempting to summit a volcano at 15,700 ft with only one day of ... bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  requirements. By assisted, I mean something more like “forced to comply in order ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  distorted slightly from a spherical shape due to drag forces on the sphere ... 've planned on being Course 20* since before coming to MIT**, MIT students tend to all take the same core curriculum as freshmen. This not only

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... -legged robot, he returned to the subject in his biweekly "Movie Answer Man

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  way i'm trudging along this semester feels like i'm being forced to take ... 't feel like doing any of those. i had to force myself to write this post ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  a steep boi. I was forced to learn many things and attend many office ... minimum needed to pass your classes, usually resulting from MIT's pass ... apathy that they forget about their [annotation note="Brief Introduction to

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  , essentially, forcing me to leave The Bubble. exploring a museum in the middle of ... college is supposed to be a stepping-stone to adulthood, where undergrads can attempt to be functional human beings an environment conducive

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  extended to pubs and clubs, as in the US, forcing us all to abstain or break ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... to tackle Scotland's binge-drinking culture have been announced by the

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

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given ... known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... to day life was like. Maybe you really like skating? Maybe you really

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT International Science and Technology Initiative helps students find ways to study ... internship in Spain this summer, and I am super psyched. (I still have to send

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  stars really started to align. First, Google announced its Willow quantum ...  real. I simply refuse to believe in such strange, unintuitive physics that I ... want to see is something like a person falling through the floor (via

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  events to your Google Calendar through tinyurl.com/rushwilg ... occurred at our house. I'm happy to announce that we did not, in fact, burn down, and that we still exist! I first moved to WILG after I took a gap

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Dartmouth on the bus to visit and I gave him the grand walking tour of Boston ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... Pod shuffle, and since she already owns an iPod, she decided to bestow it upon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...

  

  , don't feel the need to force yourself to enjoy it. CPW is a great time ... all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to write to all of you who will be coming to visit very soon. You might be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 8, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  itinerary — forces you to think about your own desires rather than what your ... for some imaginary audience forced me to confront why i cared about the ... too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to navigate MIT and attempt to reconcile my diverse interests in both biological

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  was handed one sticker, no strings attached (not even a website to visit ... Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I'm happy to be getting lots and lots of sleep in my FULL SIZE (!) bed at home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006