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  A moveable feast

  

  every hour of darkness, running in the rain at midnight, throwing ice onto the frozen river at 1 and watching it ripple out like an array of stars ... of a kid trying to surpass himself at 6, and finding himself awed at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • June 16, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  . It looks at all forms of transport: cars, transit, bikes and ... When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  naturally at 8 a.m. on a daily basis and I've found a semblance of work ethic ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... cleaning, but at least the laundry's done. I had a good experience with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  ’m kind of painfully bad at chess right now. I’m also incredibly sucky at ... recognizing and accepting that I can be really bad at things was one of the most ... requires a lot of concentration (at least on my part). Everyone knows the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... . As I walked her around the myriad of different labs that serve host to mechanical wonders in various states of disarray, blabbing incessantly about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  between a chemistry test and a biology test. So at 4:00 PM on the eve of ... backpack it went. Hardly was this inconsistent with the Way of Things at MIT ... along the lines of “Free ___ and ___ at (some place within a 5-minute run

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  bed watching Netflix, but...at the end of the day, i was really grateful ... meet a lot of people in classes/at random events that you can lose touch ... i'm taking this course called "The Science of Well-Being" on Coursera

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  it is possible to get an adequate amount of sleep at MIT, as long as ... their best work. You're welcome to do that too. Lots of people at MIT are ... of the day except approximately 6-8 AM. The upside at MIT is that, due

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Holy Grail of Hacks Returns and everything it took to get there

  

  longer lasting. Talks of reviving Tetris started floating around at the end ... the project design requirement set at a lifespan of 10 years and an ... own chance to be bad at Tetris where all of Boston could see me. A small

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 3, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  for its signal of the year coming to an end and the promise of the new ... , cleaning out closets of last year’s coats and donating them, filing paperwork, going through old emails and cleaning up all of my computer desktops. And

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  action needed to be taken by you. You are at no disadvantage of your ... document. At this time, however, you should not send additional copies of ... finished processing all of the application materials submitted for early

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Support MIT Sports!! Vote for MIT Crew!

  

  fast. Crew at MIT is one of the largest sports, and our only Division 1 ... for "Crew of the Week" and you can all help our crew team be recognized ... little support! For those of you unfamiliar, Crew is sort of a big deal

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Leaves, Strawberries, Doors Pictures of campus, faculty dinner, another door. (7 pictures)

  

  , and more. One of the dinner tables at ZBT; in this picture, you can ... (small) collection of photos of doors at MIT, this from a room ... to turn as early a September, but only recently has most of the campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Orientation Wrap-Up Reason #457 why I love Orientation: I don't have to pay for food for a…

  

  your first week at MIT. Since Sam and Mitra both have covered many of ... welcomed the Class of '09 to MIT at Convocation, so I guess you can say she ... So Orientation is pretty much also a week of free food. The saying

  • by Bryan
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the speed of light, people falling into black holes, and people stretching out ... indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  remember that in the few moments of time I tried my hand at creating music ... -I-will-this-is-what-I-came-here-for spirit that overtook me at the start of the semester. For me, this isn’t a ... and at the frat. There’s been the prospect of my first technical job

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

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

  

  to cut out any part of it. Feel free to just look at the pictures. So ... was pretty crowded. There was a ton of awesome stuff to look at ... the folks who design all of the coolest computing projects at MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  little home of MIT and Harvard. The ceremonies traditionally take place at ... I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect, now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  Class of 2011 at ISEF, we'll be having a breakfast gathering on Thursday ... with a dozen of the 20+ MIT 2010s at Intel ISEF. The table at dinner. In ... , I got to visit many of the finalists and their projects. Anneke '10 at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007