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• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  the denotations of the words matched up very well (this is one of the problems with inventing new meanings for words: you end up with associations ... as a surprise that all my favorite battles are mental ones. for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  watching Harry Potter for the nth time. On a normal day, there are at least ... workouts for us. The first night I tried, we did it outside at 11 pm, and it ... , straight up, but now I'm a routine of doing it every night with the others. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  singing group within Next House! Our main goal for the group was for it to ... as essentially a shower thought by Cynthia L. '20 ended up becoming an actual thing. Like, for lack of a better term, W T F In the beginning

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out ... , looking for any and all signs of fall. My only directive was to maximize the ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty ... looking for. I was hoping someone would have an MIT shirt on or something, so I wouldn’t have to go up to strangers and say, “Hey are you the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  course 16 advisor for the first time and expressed my abject terror at ... ’s luxurious Institute mattress for the pure joy that is throwing together a ... waste time searching for like the freshman that you still feel like most

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... ? The guy who did the voice for a cartoon horse." Yet even though he didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  degrees and sunny. That basically sums up my prior experience with ... that sends out alerts for weather reports and updates when needed. I also ... drought conditions for too long Two days later the temperature suddenly

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  have to kick it into high gear for my 6.042 exam on Wednesday. I spent all of Monday night from 8pm to 2am studying. I woke up promptly at 7 ... down everything I knew, tried different things, and came up with what I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

   Answer: Stuff that I paid for. Right Answer: Stuff that I got for free at the ... the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not ... I got so much free stuff that I won’t need to buy shirts for another

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  Hello! What’s up Homo sapiens sapiens? To everyone I’ve met this ... be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  for the final competitive round, I realized that I was coming up on ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... strolling through the Infinite when I came across a poster for something

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  coded a ray caster for 6.837, the computer graphics class that has been ... the image we end up seeing, but if you modeled rendering that way, you'd waste a lot of computation because most photons wouldn't end up making it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I print out past exams for my next three organic chemistry and genetics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  for 36 hours and then wake up and microwave some leftovers and spend the ... from the masses purely for comic relief. But what drives us bloggers and ... through our scientifically rigorous work, for the sole purpose of clearing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... until commencement. Unfortunately, those were three weeks for my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman ... need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  images and digitize its public image. (Grapevines for the curious: Polaroid ... instant Polaroids just like Grandma used to do for her scrapbook. I still ... I will skip, except to note that one of the proposed designs for the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  . Small things add up here. Where you study can make a huge difference, for ... reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  do so likewise this year for you all EA'ers! *[ also = もう一度　いつまでも - though I don't think it will show up on the URL =p] Can't believe it ... enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008