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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  , too. The President has directed Energy Secretary Steven Chu to provide ... 's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... intelligent” scientists to provide solutions to the oil leak, and Alexander

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  find it hard to stay engaged since lecture is punctuated with problem ... —partly because i thought i was too late to the game to get good at it, and partly ... math problems, which most of the time is trying random shit until it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company ... the usual email informing me of its arrival, so it took a week to figure ... it seems to be working fine. I am Totally Ecstatic about having all the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common ... supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the ... appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  supportive of it either. the story that comes to mind is from march 2018. it’s ... behind. it is retelling my high school narrative to be one where i am the ... one So I left, that is it That's my life, nothing is sacred I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  them. Help is rarely as far away as you think it is. Don't be afraid to ... the river just to get to school is a pain. But at the same time, it ... . Conversely, it is possible to be incredibly influential and respected in an

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  ” behind it (tl;dr: there is none) and was inspired to take and research a ... independent, it’s incorrect to assume that someone who is 51% “thinking” is much ... its methods, as real science is supposed to be. It was also created from

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the ... This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes and its symptoms. Genetically, it appears to depend on small effects

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  '; this is the one I'm studying. It is a joint program between Course 4 ... am in it below!). It's made up of smaller parts designed to fit ... . I don't know too much about it, but according to its website "its

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  many kinds of awesome, your grade is going to be 1/4 of it for 4 years ... ). CPW is a chance for you to meet people in your grade and go to once ... perspective! Go out, see it all. Your host tell you East Campus is weird and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  know it is, try not to obsess over your pending decision. Do spend time ... Joonho K. '20 (2019) it’s okay to be nervous, anxious, excited, whatever ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  talk to in quarantine, it is nice to at least feel like i'm connecting ... happy, but a key component of it includes exercises for you to put certain ... students to meet new people at 9 pm EDT each day. it was so much fun!!! i met

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  Peter Singer: I think this quote cuts to the core of the book: “if it is ... , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... book and annotate it because there is so much I can learn to grow as a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  , it just means that Netflix is about to add some new TV shows and movies ... two camps when it comes to a new year. The first camp sees it as a reset ... .M. (school isn’t in session yet, not that this is even slightly correlated to

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

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  different. It seems almost hard to imagine that this time last week, I was ... . Discovery is finding out that I needed to draft a study plan for my courses at ... school. 7. Discovery is learning to manage a SAT preparation program with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that ... health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is ... in spring, I said fuck it and decided to rush. It is one of the best

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance ... $4133, which averages to just under $10 per meal. The Full 19 is a little ... stress on long days and avoids the temptation to skip meals, which is very

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... psets all night it becomes much too easy to skip meals and rely on fast ... made the largest difference in terms of my day to day happiness it's not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  about to start happening. As much as it will hurt, people who won't be ... now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created ... such, It's time for me to shift my writing a bit. You'll notice fewer and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008