Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  same direction, then the atom is at a higher energy level than if one is ... "flip" direction - and if it flips, then tiny packets of energy are released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  if you go to the cheapest college and then find out that it is not the ... wouldn’t be helping anyone out. Your goal is not to ATTEND a college, it is ... college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... feels until it happens to you.  So while you shouldn’t tolerate bad

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  students acclimate to MIT. It was a fun, high-energy job. Every OL was ... is the time to explore, so do make use of it. Of course, exploring is a ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... thesis. The class is designed to be 1/3 thesis writers anonymous, 1 ... past summer on the Big Island of Hawaii and is continuing it from his lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i ... sentences into a story about how i was late to class and it's bad. well ... note="i left next house at 9:50, it takes about 15 minutes to get to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body ... thing I wanted. The pathway to recovery is not always so straight and manageable. A lot of healing is out of your hands. It takes time and patience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  effect? i think that it is useful to learn things, otherwise i'd drop out of college! i think it is useful to pursue things for the sake of ... . this is the starting hand size, subject to mulligans, and the maximum

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology is providing to this IP address, it may have ... and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a ... Use. This practice is also illegal and can lead to legal action against

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  like using physical agendas more. For one, it’s fun to buy a new one each ... a pair of awesome Steven Universe socks! It adds to my steven-universe-is ... agendas is because I like to very excessively cross out tasks as soon as

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  weird to be a senior. It feels weird to be a senior while excited ... clubs and responsibilities so that I have the energy to dip my toes into ... us alive, especially when it comes to medicine/research/etc., it's no

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... person ready to have such an influence? Or is utilizing the power of the internet more like giving nuclear codes to children? Lou is now channeling

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  . But instead of the first 10 (decimal is so ordinary!), I decided to provide the first 10 base 16, since hex is the way to go. 0x0. Lonestar ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  then have to clean it up, and even just buying all the ingredients can ... realllllllly wanted to try it. The main ingredient is "San Marzano tomatoes ... good bread to put it on. The way the strong, familiar blueberry taste is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... house manager, Ken, noticed this and sent someone to fix it. (The house

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... school students can learn less than or equal to /almost/ anything. It's a ... 't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  enjoyed my time, but it took the beginning weeks to appreciate it. Here I ... initiated me into the 9 to 5 world, something I thought would be easy. At the beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  achievable goal, even if it isn't that lofty, is a good way to keep progressing ... 's definitely progress, and this markdown file is not the best way to represent it ... bestowed her wisdom upon the bloggers. It is unarguably god tier for task

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  thrive at MIT. My name is Caroline Mak, and it's nice to meet you. ... living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT ... racing down Mass Ave, gliding from one foot to another, is an amazing

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... learned to love poetry. I love reading it, writing it, learning about it ... ! Pretty Room Next Year I got the room I wanted! It is pretty and large and

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014