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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the prior chord and then resolve it downward to create the most pleasant ... , it pales in nerdiness to some of the ones there. Anyway, when you wake ... in the wall next to 224C. I do not know how or why it got there, but it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  5.5. I won't go into detail as to what 5.5 was about, suffice it to say that I was not in a pleasant mood after reading it. I'll accept that this was probably mostly due to illness, but a lot of it still holds for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  it wasn't worth it to listen to them when you could just listen to ... important it was to talk to strangers, not just about what they do to conserve ... their opinions to be heard, and it's unbelievably simple to empower them

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college ... unknowns, possibilities, and decisions for me to explore, and I'm glad that ... here's a handy table of contents, feel free to skip around (though it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  little worse for wear after yesterday's heavy flying. The time to beat was ... problems at all. As it came around the final turn to approach the finish line ... :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  Tuesday, it started raining. And I was like "RAWRGH! I HATE MIT AND WANT TO ... Cheney, but he also did material about computers freezing and Y2K. It ... when; it was all just one lovely ray of sunshine to me--I took a bike

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  think it’s possible, to varying degrees of effectiveness depending on what ... wikiquote and other sources have been unable to locate it in any of her ... thoroughly inundated with this misattribution that it is no longer feasible to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  , snowflakes drift down to the ground. I think part of it is that these memories ... driving through it—but the snow's presence was enough to bring me some well ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  yourself after a blue patch and realizing it was largely thanks to someone ... corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... -Conner residents trying to sleep on Saturday night. It was an impromptu event that ... time in MIT history! Most MIT students move from doubles to singles after

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... something to offer and something to learn—it’s how every class year gets built ... to experts with years of experience. It was inspiring and freeing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  for an army but only has to feed a family, the boy has to eat it all ... contest that challenged patrons to eat as many hot dogs as possible. Being ... to do it, how is that even hard!?" Matt and Ben were skeptic. I was

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... it can be used to fund amazing work from organizations using AI for ... the way down the beginner slopes. It was the first time I had gotten to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... country? Yes! Well technically it's a principality, or according to ... , including electronic voting, which makes it officially fancier than the U

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  the possibility of being dangerous to yourself and those around you ... reports using her sneezes as “a way to pick up boys,” however it is worth ... others, but to each his own. So the next time you sneeze, think about it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  points as possible. Last year's contest was modeled after Simmons Hall so ... competition. Maybe, I'll win this year? So to hear Professor Slocum tell it ... case is to learn a lot about the design process and what it takes to be a

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  from campus as you can possibly get. She rode it over last night and locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy ... though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  . After settling in, it feels a lot like MIT--there's so much to do in a ... as possible before returning to the real world. I'm living with three ... everything you've done the following morning. It's starting to feel like a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  ; it's computer-based, so you get your score right after you take the ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began ... after I was done, I walked back to South Station and decided to wander

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a ... all. I want to be cool, too, and it sounds incredibly lame when I say it ... am not cool. Go to class; it is not cool to look like you're not trying

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016