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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  Nearly two weeks ago, I promised you a Post of Substance™ to be put ... , treason, hang her at dawn, all that. Let's just blame it on the weird dreams ... being eaten by second-order ordinary differential equations instead of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  differential equations and op amp PSETs, I’ve learned how to take care of myself ... high school was competitive to the point of being toxic, and that it’s important to pick the people that you hang around with wisely ( I have now

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome, unjust murders of black people, and news of senseless police brutality, every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  on the topic of extra-curricular activities. We collectively lamented ... "just to get into college" instead of encouraging them to follow their ... (and reward) the latter when we read, and that one of my favorite admits

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  [annotation note="Quick loft backstory: East Campus gives us a lot of furniture ... week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth week of school. But hey! I did build that loft! And she is BEAUTIFUL

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  the journey to PLAYsentations or, the conclusion to the best class I've taken at MIT...so far

  

  detect front and back foot taps with a fair degree of accuracy.  But you ... interest in design: “His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time ... understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 17, 2013
• 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 / 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 / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is ... because the sun stays out past 6 pm. No, the start of spring means one thing ... games are staples of an MIT student-athlete’s spring. Those games are a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of "helpful handouts." Although I've since forgotten what most of the papers ... my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  fact have an interminable cloud of work hanging over me, I'd collapse ... from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year, full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  clothes out of the wash, sending emails, cleaning up my room for CPW ... of being reasonable and going to sleep, I’m going to write this in one ... Initial Dissection After crawling my way to the freedom of spring break, I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  hang out. Here is a full outline of all of my plans for IAP. Physics ... 've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  being gimmicky, they are actually two copies of the same person. So… hang ... Family of Bloogyness this year. 60 entered. 7 survived the The Blogger ... , debating the implications of each choice, exploring hypothetical alternatives

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  mix of professional and personal travel. I typically blog about these kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for ... blogs for the rest of the month, b) alert Californians to some interesting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  , marathon in the world. The race begins at 10AM in Hopkinton, a suburb of ... line welcomes runners home, under the protective wing of the Boston Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with

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

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014