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• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  Sometimes, its hard to pull yourself out of bed. The uncertainty of ... 're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... move: forward. And so you pick yourself up. And you take it one thing at

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and ... flight, drifting in and out of sleep --   and then i was back and i met a lot of new people, including our amazing new bloggers, and i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  fantastic showcase of the various arts and performance groups at MIT:   ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge ... on the seal playfully arguing about the merits of theory vs. practice

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  intelligent conclusions. In the words of the late Aaliyah, "If at first you don ... project done for one of my classes, 2.671, Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  , super biology queen Mollie says, "I'm sure at least some of the foam is due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... sending water + people goo down a water slide at high speed), you get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... . The weather at MIT has been delicious the past week or so. My friends ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Back From The West Coast ...with thoughts and conclusions on the recent serious posts.

  

  Hi everyone, I am back in town after a crazy day of traveling across ... a lot and discuss it with some of my superiors (for those of you just ... issues such as suicide. I respect the sentiments of the original poster

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  teenagers felt like one of my biggest achievements at MIT. Because finally, I ... Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Airbnb months in advance, creating an itinerary of trails to hike, and even

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  the disconnect I feel, and I'd probably feel out of place at any of the ... at least some representation of Devi and her mother understanding each ... . 1 trending series on Netflix right now, garnered a lot of attention

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... i put upon myself the task of writing a website i liked. at first i ... one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  live at MIT and have a taste of independence. After returning home and ... In April of 2018, I left home for a few days to attend [annotation ... -year at Northeastern University!"]younger sister[/annotation] stayed home on

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  the edges of the rain fly enough. There was a swimming pool at either ... Have you ever had your car pulled out of a parking lot muddy field by ... 's kind of fun to sit in your car while it wags around, a tractor's tail

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  Christmas present that cost around $20, which at the time was a lot of money ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of their room numbers. Each of the four floors is concentric with the shaft

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at ... ’t seen you guys at all this year,” referring to our mutual group of friends ... look at everything, between all the craziness of planning.)   

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... general excitement to begin my second semester at MIT (keep in mind this was ... like starting class at 10 am. And I really like that my day ends at 2 pm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  we will notice that the set $A$ must lie at the intersection of the ... -Schwarz inequality. There are a bajillion (or rather, at least 12) proofs of this ... 's it. And yet, when I look at the proof in all of it's glory, I think to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  high. I burned my mouth at a tasting of ghost pepper sauce (I said it ... protagonists at the edge of a precipice, reviving traditions that may not be the ... The last week and some are a blur, a long, joyous drink of EC. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  Potter, in the labyrinth at the end of Goblet of Fire. I came across a ... I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  compilation of end of the year reflections from my lovely friends and amigos ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... say I was excited would be an understatement. Taking advantage of the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014