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• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... way too much studying to do. And regretted it, as I sat in my room for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in ... an impulse buy of some Star Wars: Episode III valentines the other day

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  imagine, it's terribly convenient to be able to run downstairs if you run ... . Julie lofted her bed to fit her fridge underneath it. Mark '07. Mark is ... As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  ~10 years ago, this is the first you've heard of ISEF, and you want to ... is open to members of the general public for viewing and when all ... as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... -001 is officially the single coolest room I've ever seen. It's so cool, that I've decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  ... Is it common/uncommon to go into Boston a lot or do people generally ... . Seances Colin asked, Is it possible to contact the spirit of Ellen Swallow ... seem to think the 5th?). It is super-hottttt, and tons easier to navigate.

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

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  wanted the answer to, is "do I have enough energy to go to tea time today ... that purpose is as simple as "it feels good to do it". And that sometimes ... . On Floor Pi, one of our traditions is this event called tea time. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  Property Brothers and Love It or List It). Realized we needed to buy an HDMI ... to leave. My grandparents are pretty old. My dog is old. My mom ... decision. Also, it would force me to grow up and seek out that independence I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most ... ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to ... out to New Hampshire to do this? Wouldn’t it have been a lot warmer and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... age is 18. You can read about it here, but the basic story is: Proposals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't flood you with pictures from Mathcamp. Suffice it to say that it was a ... , so it was actually quite difficult. A fun component to the course was ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  those to its French counterpart, so there is a lot of cultural overlap ... , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  cultures. It took, and continues to take, a lot of time and energy--I may ... this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to ... Chinese at MIT. Other than English, Chinese is my most fluent language. It’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... . This is an incredibly insightful talk. I first watched it in 2002, and ... As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me ... windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  instance, it is very easy for me to hate a specific person in my life who ... expertise to write, but for now i’ll just say that i believe it is possible ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... dining plan during college, knowing how to cook is still an essential life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  !" It's not surprising then, that people are buying these small octopi to ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... pretty surprising to see how frequently it occurs. 54. To prevent the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009