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• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  dorms to explore, a hundred activities to pursue, a thousand friends to ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million ... bustling, 24/7 lifestyle. No longer could I afford to spend hours on a single

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  about is the part where I will sit in a library for 8 hours trying to do a ... in the easiest physics class offered). Getting sick, dragging myself to ... . Sounds simple on paper but in real life it is enough to actually make you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  runner up had only ~5,000XP. I put in about two and a half hours and go to ... hours to take a 1,000XP lead and completing Italian in the process. Final ... planned to put in a maximum of 28 hours over 7 days. At this point my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  novel hobby, in certain circles, to have begun a sourdough starter during ... make a big change in order to grow. But you should always have faith: you ... good thing, since there is not a lot else enjoyable to think about right

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  moved to Northern California in 2000, just in time for warm weather and a ... In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I ... (Amelie style) on my old blog in August 2004, but it's pretty hard to find

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies ... this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  , and one of our freshmen gets so excited after a goal she goes to high ... give y’all a little recap.  For starters, it's important to know that ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain ... , including pencils, cough drops ("You can take one in your mouth, but you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... apparently was okay, because we ended up in a congo line, dancing to Vietnamese ... another man, who then lit a fuse leading to a wooden sign, which in English

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... your drawers a little bit harder. Maybe behind all the Ralph Lauren ... losing your best friend, someone who's always there for you. A part of me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  (EECS, or Course 6) at MIT, so if you're interested in working on the next ... also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a bit nervous going in, I thought the film did quite a good job; I enjoyed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  , Daniel. Fortunately, we made it to the webcast in the nick of time, and ... - that somehow it's a victory for every human being. So, I managed to ... to how the human eye works, how images are stored on your computer, how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Conner 2 Trip to the North End Bother bother bother bother

  

  A bunch of people from my floor decided to go to the North End to get ... I decided to just film it instead. I present to you, what it would look like if you were an MIT student and went to the North End. Enjoy!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  .2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the ... never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  the scenes to see how a fashion show is made. [caption id ... will be walking the runway today. I stop by to say hi and snap a couple pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately, we can’t admit everyone. If your decision was deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  ? (Happy Friday! Seen today on a chalkboard in Stata Center) ... Anniversary. So did students at MIT. On November 22, 2015, a Toy Story ... brought smiles to all those who passed by. To share the happiness, here are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman ... computer program ever. GAMIT How to Get Around MIT, the one stop shop for

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  camps - at every single camp I went to, I was housed in a dorm room that ... to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for ... part of a whisker). I didn't want to just redo an image in a pixel

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  , Congratulations on completing your first year at MIT! It has been a tough year ... be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and ... a 13th member to the Ring Committee. This additional member will be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008