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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... going to DINEPA, or Direction Nationale de l’Eau Potable et de l ... ; unfortunately, he didn't have too much of the information we wanted, since we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  friends and family are much, much more important to me than grades or money ... ’t need an MIT education to start doing amazing, world-changing things ... report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  enjoyed it enough to do it well without too much effort. I wanted, like everyone at MIT does (according to the fantastic pressure survey in the Tech ... . When the sun is out, I'm out. When I need to sleep, I do. A third policy

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  mealtime jaunts, it's difficult to find much free time to speak of. This ... ? Yes, but you need to be disciplined and devoted to making it work. I ... (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  novel nature enables each page to tell multiple sub-stories at once as ... stilted or awkward. An author tries to shove too much into one character ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  to learn about and it feels very much like not-school :P (Definitely does harken back to my science bowl days where I memorized so much random ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and running, now you need to know how to use it! Next up is assembly ... midterm grades, you didn't need to take the final, but if you bombed only one midterm then you'd only need to do that section on the final. Didn

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  course at MIT, and I need no further proof than to note that the class was ... Mechanical Engineering course 2.009: Product Engineering Processes took to Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  neuroscientist (or your parents) will tell you, your brain does need sleep in order ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter ... This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  to reach the end of the line. Every once in a while, a train passes by ... from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much ... end of classes! Time to have some fun. Fun? How do you have fun at MIT

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  pleasure. Besides, he didn't need to get into MIT, not the way I did. When ... she needed more than a boyfriend to get there.  As Mitski sang, the ... Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... the need to be attended to most of the time. i should be allowed to take ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the next four years were to hold. I was anxious about living so far away from home. I was worried about the academic rigor that was to come. I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  : "What do you mean I need to pay $1,200 to fix it? I'm still covered under ... pine (to check email), zephyr (to IM, once in a blue moon), tellme combo ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  sure they put your baggage on the next flight, and you're going to need ... So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  it's impossible to recognize, which makes its inclusion pretty much ... to customize the ring to reflect their time here. At the end of the freshmen year, about a dozen students are appointed to the Ring Committee (by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  , with open notes and as much time as I needed, and scan my answers back to ... 't think much about it afterwards, but woah. That meant the world to me ... needed to refer to notes. Together, we would diagnose what's going on. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  reopen in a year and we needed as much attention as possible. Burton Conner ... their floors. much to our surprise, we received a ton of responses!! i was ... of Burton Conner. REX, which was from August 29 to September 1st, is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... relief and calm when I kicked my feet in the water was one I needed to ... boring. But all this means is that I need to decide what activities are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  style is flexible enough to suit your diverse academic needs (spoiler: it ... (including myself) value: you need to ask for help, research opportunities, etc ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011