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• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... ’s not much for me to say about these things; not enough, at least.   i ... holding tomorrow, and how we’ve been working really hard to put everything

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  collected my things and moved to the lounge car once again, where I ... , he quieted down, much to my chagrin but likely appreciated by the chef ... anew to a much changed landscape, which seems in my mind more typical of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  about this if you do not have foot problems) need to wear shoes that help ... heavy stuff on the back of the foot you may need to make each step smaller ... two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... figured a simulator is a good place to do it.  Until I saw a shiny, shiny ... give those to you?" "Only if you don't crash." "NOOOO I WANT MY

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  to do so much. I feel ridiculous and strange sitting in a hotel room ... , we've been working in small groups to devise projects that we could take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  , except for this one, you don't need to bother you mom to find your birth ... talk a little bit about why they decided to spend so much time on this ... thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  need to make the most of my time here. MIT gives a great deal of ... ...blah. I don't even feel a right to feel bad about those days because nothing ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... , you will get a sense of how much things cost. If you’re new to buying ... expensive. I went here once to get some freshly baked bread. There are bulk

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  worked out unevenly - 5 girls to 4 boys - their team had Garrett, who once ... the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to ... up on top of each other like the laundry I forgot to fold on Sunday

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  out, though, that you need a reservation in order to go skydiving, and ... copious amounts of food, you need to rethink your definition of a ... courses, and with much help from Ash - and yet I was beginning to feel my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  defining the future stop being vague

  

  I don’t need to worry about the future so much—the train will always ... current world is not good enough, and we need to strive for change, and we ... without any well-defined values at all—but values need to be achieved

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Class of 2014 track jacket When your MIT friends say you're a dork, you know you have a problem

  

  It finally arrived. All you need to know is that something in here matches something in here.

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  MIT. MIT has changed me so much as a person that it kind of shocks me to ... , reputation, weather) turned out not to matter as much as the things i didn ... with is yourself. The only person you need to be better than is yourself

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  that your teachers are also impacted and may need extra time to complete ... , we send our best to everyone impacted by this situation. Our thoughts ... , or even months, before things get back to normal. Please know that for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  still manage to get into accidents pretty much every day because of the ... I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the biggest is people who do not understand how to drive on the Infinite

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  wonders have inspired scientists to innovate. When a group of MIT researchers wanted to create the next and best surgical band-aid, they turned their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  allowed to account for extremes, we need a hypothetical example in which the ... negatively to the organ variant to guide our search for moral principles. Does ... , paradoxically, become a rather depressing pastime of mine. Sometimes, it's fun to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  entire country is open to me. Seriously, if I needed a place to stay or ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008