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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  there wasn't much pressure from other students to spend long hours in the ... . (Admittedly, this is not a long list compared to the number of supervisors in ... , headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  feel, even the most difficult question in life—what is it you plan to do ... , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... sparing a thought for all the woes which continue to sit in the back of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  accurate to what's in the sandbox. The overarching goal of my UROP is to ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my schedule. I used to watch a lot of the Media Lab's content back in middle

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me ... eventually do things but I wasn’t quite yet in the right mind space to take ... .  For the first half of our trip, we decided to try "real" camping in a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  in Green Bank, WV is located in the nation's only radio-quiet zone that ... writing class to know the rest. In other news, I've been running around like a maniac, made two overnight trips to Connecticut in the same week

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  about life. We played Terraforming Mars in the garage until J had to ... ’re mostly the same as you were in high school. You’re less shy, though, no ... moment is worth giving yourself over to, so is the passage of time. I live

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  back to animals. Appel assumed that the United States, like most modern ... picture of where the "turkey" in "Turkey vs. Spam" comes from. This is ... carcasses in my blog, isn't it? MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Science is AWESOME!

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from ... awesomeness that it is." Tear! I decided to finally blog (weeks after the fact ... . I'll be watching, just to give the show a good kick in the pants on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars ... my two suitcases. I’m going to be in Europe for the same amount of time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , my childhood had taught me that the correct response to free candy is ... . Send email out to dorm: My dear countrymen, in light of the recent ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  something else. It is the most formidable piece of literature I have ever ... ), I went to the undergraduate math office in the same hallway and asked ... logged in on the same computer. I emailed the following message to the 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  make for good song lyrics) Agawam is best known as being the ... found half price tickets to Six Flags which were a little cheaper than the ... actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  the year of YouTube, iPods, gas for $3.50 a gallon, record ... Nobel prizes, proposed changes to the undergraduate curriculum, began ... ://web.mit.edu/spotlight/lookback-2006/ for a look back at the spotlights. So what’s in store for 2007

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  teacher lunch is okay. There isn't much pizza left by the time I arrive ... whole lot out there for kids to learn about radio astronomy - most of the ... . She wants to know about my interest in radio astronomy, the class I took

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  . In the words of the incomparable sage of Long Beach, Snoop Dogg "He is ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... secretly longed for the day when he would not have to spend 3.5 hours of his

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... (more details to come) and read it on and off throughout the spring. It is ... , albeit mostly for academic reasons. Hopefully leisurely travel is in my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  I wrote this in pieces - from Cambridge to San Diego, the train from ... here.) Kevin wants to know: How is the food at MIT? The food at MIT is ... curiosity, what is the font that you guys keep using in your images? Gill Sans

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  and the idea is that you’re just supposed to follow your stream of ... than to maybe add in links or pictures, i’m going to try and preserve the ... ) [annotation note="this is where the meta part comes in!"]writing is hard

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  educational videos in the background is a good way to stop yourself from using ... my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... . there are very few women in the game industry and this is still a huge

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019