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• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  makerspaces, in and out of 2.007. I grew comfortable on many machines and began ... , in that I am currently alive and well, but those two weeks are fairly ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... education MIT provides. Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  conserve energy. My technique is bad and I tend to burn out wayyy too fast ... I wrote in an earlier blog that I took up running. Since coming back ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  full of energy I could feel in the air but the gathering was not my cup ... happened at the Outfinite, at eleven in the evening. Modern style I was ... what is to come to me as it just so happens I was and the in the items in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  interns), then work in developing sustainable energy things -- i'm doing ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  notifies me of his new tweet. I check it out and shake my head. It’s in the ... I still can’t process that I’ve turned in my final work for the ... much warmth from it as I can. In that position, I finally drift off to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there ... class with him, and he liked me because I helped other students in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  ... In December 2020, I learned about the MakerLodge training that first-years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... campus. I registered for one of the first in-person trainings because I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  me whether I was a morning person or a night owl in high school, I ... 't necessarily the case, though. I spent most of high school in a vicious cycle of ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  they might be in a few days, or weeks, or months. I can delay apartment ... A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be ... and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... skills as well. In August, I'm going to the ACS meeting in Philadelphia as

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... . Teenagers in Scotland can get hold of booze so long as they have a tall

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  harmful effects of inflation. I can add a little more about each. Laura is ... to MIT in two years, I wish you all the best for the future ... winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  memo. In all seriousness though, I actually do get sleep, usually about ... was. Note my amused face in this picture.  Or it can be bad when ... how hectic my schedule is I always make time to hang out with my friends

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  .[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more ... your own meaning out of the disconnected sentences. In the meantime, I ... —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  changes that will impede this global energy crisis from spiraling out of ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I walked out enlightened and luminous, which are qualities dark matter can ... passionate about the research topic. However, I had tons Hubble-barns of fun in

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  that’s kind of the appeal, if I’m honest – I can have other people read ... ="ALSO can I just say how pissed I am about daylight savings time I am now 8 ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  -year career. Well, I sure enjoyed my month home in Harrisburg, although ... .391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now, but it's a really intense course: 9 days, 9 hours a day, 9 units. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007