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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  NOOOOO! It's so sad!

  

  copy of "The Tech" after work today. I was very excited to get my Tech ... maybe my entry may have persuaded you to pick the red chair. It was a well ... , chair manufacturers commented on it, it had to be good. Why didn't you

  • by Snively '11
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  wonder at Cambridge’s ability to rain even when it’s below freezing. Living ... them. Exam grading, which I couldn’t make it to because of lecture, is ... free admission to), forward it to Cory, and think about how we should go

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  obvious drawbacks of being sick, it's impossible to catch up during the ... , helped me move one of my finals to the end of the summer. It was no fun to ... me to explain. Immediately after turning in my 6.170 pset on Sunday

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were ... had assumed it to be—harder to come up with plot, easier to invent ... actually print out when we told it to do so, I still felt like strangling my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  ? Is it someone’s full-time job to churn out pumpkin after pumpkin non ... ? How is that humanly possible? The pumpkins are so intricate – surely it should take an entire day to make just a single pumpkin?” As it turns out

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  as possible, but rather to make it as simple as possible, so that anyone using it will know exactly how it functions and how to fix it if it ... to extinguish it, after the first use. This was causing a lot of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  just pause to bring it back to my mind, which only takes a second: after ... to rely on throughout your time at MIT. I couldn't recommend it enough ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  , only one year after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse ... weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... matter what "some people are saying." It also reminded me of Yuliya's blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  beautiful words by my dear friend Amy F. '20. It's conclusions she's come to (sometimes the hard way) after making it halfway through hell. Without further ... be a better person everyday, shows me why it is crucial to always be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were to be rejected, my mom would see it first. But still, I called. And ... to come here. I believe it would have worked out fine: I would have

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  to make ai systems as efficient as possible. afterwards my boss told me ... abstractions, which are usually pretty enjoyable to reason about; it’s only much later that you confront the reality of what it’s like to wrestle with a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  some privacy issues, but I simply choose not to think about it too hard ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... really want to break it down: Turn phone off. (Hard!) Get up. Walk

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... almost failing. By “every great story,” it's entirely possible that I mean

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the ... more crazy things? To put it another way: what was three months of not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  , probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing ... . There’s a lot of them. On the plus side, it really motivates you to add your ... the hall, but it matters to me so it’s on the list. Last year in Baker

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  twelve hours after it was written due to availability of pictures and ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... has a really large courtyard. When it’s not freezing outside, people eat ... ! We are going to see it on Saturday, and that was NOT a deliberate

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  after you reflect is to be as serious as possible when doing so, jot down ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to ... after I thought I had a hard semester. AND IT GOT WORSE. Thus, in the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to mention the $100 million gift that made it possible!), is that the ... knowing how to apply it to an exam question. (Prefrosh, take note of this.) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , freezing to them, and then being subjected to 50+ MPH winds is the landlocked ... forward it on to them and spread the word so that they know. I would also ... The MIT Early Action application deadline has been extended to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011