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• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  limits, a ghost wandering the halls of First East. But the long weekend ... where I'm...t-posing with the rest of my bio summer camp on Killian ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  applies to the Romance languages. There are plenty of examples of all of ... . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I ... semester of your MIT experience, and it's coming to an end. Sophomore fall is notoriously academically difficult because you're adjusting your expectations of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  version of my hall's shirt, created to reflect the vibe of the newer culture ... At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There ... , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  be considered the added convenience of having a dining hall on the ... and parents alike that in fact the quality of food at the dining halls ... admit that the omelets from McCormick dining hall were the highlights of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  their own style of taking notes and keeping organized. But if you ... [/caption] Historically, I’ve only ever finished three notebooks out of the dozens I’ve had ... scrapbooking. Obviously, it’s impractical to take a picture of each and every

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  channel to play Sting's 'The Last Ship', which is sort of our de facto hall ... COVID-19 ensued. A lot of people have been saying this, but this week has ... stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote ... the universe, this all having raised up an image in my head of a world ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  Hall, Senior Haus, Epsilon Theta, and Fenway House, which covers most of ... days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  Department of Applied Mechanical Engineering in an Urban Environment ... Inside Scoop To: Me You should check out the Vassar side of Stata ("Razor ... . I decided to share the wealth with my friends over the course of the

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even ... average. The delay's not due to waiting or a lack of options, but due to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  Ruth said: "Seriously, update! A more pictures, less blocks of text ... , gracefully has her cake and eats it too. And the rest of Conner 2 (plus ... ? Well, I finally made it home and then spent a lot of time catching up on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post ... One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  Olympics). We entered every event offered. We won most of them, but I think ... Buick Regal — not the whole car but about 200 parts (which is about 1% of ... a great time and had some good crews (was voted EARC coach of the year

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  residents of dorms with dining halls (Simmons, Baker, MCormick and Next) are ... dining halls visit other dorms for food, but I have no idea how many of ... -packed week. The beginning of the week was either pretty lame or well

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it ... -on-a-drum-with-a-stick thing.) Not only that, but our three hours of practice a week count as a class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  there were 9 of us who applied; I only know of four, including myself, and ... I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  of this residence hall. Another unique feature is the extensive use of ... distant lands (Lexington, Massachusetts) to attend what is hailed as one of ... ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008