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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  up the supports, as well as how high you want the bed to be. Not to ... be diverting from the artistic message of this post. Which is, MIT ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  inevitable passage of time. There will come the day when I'm no longer at MIT ... from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same ... . i like seasons which show you the passage of time. there are some things i'll miss and some things i won't. i'll miss the lovely people and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the ... 't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... . task Z takes 1 hour and two people, and it can only be done after X and Y

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  being an absolute rock star. Turns out most of the people in the band ... MIT had a football game this afternoon against Worcester State. The final score was 49-6. It's apparently the worst loss in over 15 years. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  them they would be more impressed by the thing itself than by its ... usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... the way, is 12.) But even at MIT, not everything can be measured. When ... As for the first time, after a freshman year that can best be described

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would ... 'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... the classroom of 2020 look like? Should there be classrooms in 2020 ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair*, or tie your shoes. So every time one of the aforementioned tasks has to

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

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  ambitious. I didn’t have to work that hard. I’ll be the first to admit that I ... drive to be doing the most I possibly could be in any given moment. In ... time, so the solution can't be to just chill. Which is, of course, not

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... , doing laundry regularly), and worse at the things I used to do automatically (ie. drinking water, eating food, turning off the lights before I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  having to be taken away by the very ambulance I am working by telling her I ... "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down the symptoms of workaholic withdrawal through the ancient zen technique

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  , and then I decided to be all creative and turn the cup into a tree trunk ... I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over what I think is either Indiana or Illinois. By the time you read this, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  our households that may not be the best for studying and working. We ... would probably be the only "free" summer I had since everything was remote ... friends, who were also working throughout the summer, would be the best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted to read. I will, however, grace you with this: It takes up more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  cruising down the 101 music. If that makes me a boomer then so be it. Also, I ... drama about him being a landlord prompted me to see what the music is like ... was [annotation note="I turned 21 and went to The Muddy, MIT's grad

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019