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• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  . Partial Production, Partial Passion There is a literal folder in my google ... absolutely nothing in particular. In one of my 7.013 lectures as a freshman ... what you do to procrastinate”. A fellow classmate turned to her friend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  Sometimes taking a little time to recharge is really all you need. I've been spending hours in used bookstores and swimming and taking deep ... pronounce as "Ra-to-lee" even though the logo has the built-in pronounciation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new place. If you're considering a career in academia, you probably ought to ... should get used to that.) And a question via email: Yasemin asked (via

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q&A ... one that asks applicants to describe a situation/project/idea in which ... problematic for us. In this example, having experience does not work to your

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... much time is left on my conversion to a movie in Final Cut Pro. (Two ... -minute break where I got to click on a bunch of buttons. On the last page

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  departments, nigh impossible) to get a research position in your first year ... , or 20, or maybe 10.  And the best way to know if you're interested in a ... have trouble with those last two).  You're spending $55K a year to be

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  Berlin around 11 PM, leaving me plenty of time to get home and get almost a ... shops in NYC to smell different ones; I can feel myself developing a sense ... , and went to get a coffee from the cafe near my gate. This gave me an

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... is that they create a comfortable space to ask questions, which has

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Calm in Suburban Ohio sunsets, helicopters, and fruit

  

  playground. And it felt pretty darn cool because I was no longer in a rush to ... nice to live in a more relaxed East Campus in the previous months. I ... fireflies lit up the trees. There was no one around—a terrifying scenario in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 16, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  sophomores useful skills and to let the upperclassmen get practice leading a ... to read a 23-page document teaching us more skills), it was time to ... helpful to be able to practice handling stressful situations in a controlled

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in ... . (... but I still went to it!) As a preventative measure, I purchased a medium

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and ... 's getting hard to hold on. But I will let you know. // P.S. Here's a video ... Coming off of a state-of-mind-altering weekend in Maine with people

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  blocked off due to construction) is Building 76 a new building in ... stay sufficiently awake during class to click a response in when the ... complete delivery of rings to happen a few months later, usually in April

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting ... get "20 or 24 1-ounce burgers" out of a pound of ground beef, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of ... year olds, expected to become experts in a wide variety of areas often ... be held standing in a hallway, or even turn out to include a bunch of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  WVIEYqisFLW6q1vbJXBs And finally, here’s a reminder to fill out your FUN form ... This is a short appreciation post for fun., one of my favorite bands ... everything’s wrong It just gets so hard sometimes Be calm This is rather a mood

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  single chip in your computer (unless you spilled a bag of Doritos or ... brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... this opportunity to talk about a few Nobel-prize-winning discoveries

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get ... things, then all get in a giant tub together. The water is scaldingly hot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in ... , you'll get the i3 stuff in the mail. If you never had a chance to visit ... related. CPW just happens to be a good time to get a head start on getting a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006