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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48, Part 2 Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do…

  

  very good story.) WMBR is the campus radio station: it began in the ... gave us time to experiment in our first season without too much exposure ... elsewhere fly in for the weekend to teach (I'm looking at you, James B

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  love. The Class Council is giving away tickets to a lot of concerts in ... Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... to buy college things with my dad, possibly the trip when I forgot what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  had no space left. Appendix A turned out to be pretty much the most ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the gender

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the ... problems in the first place. That growing up is this thing that’s inherently ... the carpet to stare at the dome, let me roll around in the grass and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The pretzel, invented during the 8th century AD, is shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... and had to head off. The rest of the band, much more bandcore than I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to explain what MIT is like, not so much to explain what admissions is like ... important about the things you do? Which activities mean the most to you? What

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  . Anyway, the main point is that (1) thinking too much about the HASS ... is that the problem set solutions can look like this. Keep in mind, I ... fruitless cycle of (1) going to Borders, (2) intending to buy the novel, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruth says update your blog! FIRST is cool. So are rebuses.

  

  dining plan where you pay a set fee in the beginning of the semester and ... amusing note: the Conner-side elevator in Burton-Conner is broken. There's a ... The field hockey team is doing awesome this year, (The Tech even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat ... /GPA/extracurriculars/social media presence/Hogwarts house. I did all of those things, back in the ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... should be plenty to feed the 14-person floor for the next week or so. Paul

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  cycle is one of the major impediments to deliberate personal change in ... suggesting the right thing to do is to obsess over these things - most of them ... comes to mind. this is the context through which i have found focus in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  , the past two years were very effective in erasing most of it. to some ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT. there is so much i still wish to accomplish, so many classes i never got

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  afloat in the deep end that is my job, and connecting with polar opposites ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... filled with some of the most passionate people you'll ever have the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... to get into the only theater in Boston showing Brokeback Mountain on ... epic "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" to music (even though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  you don't have class until February is pretty fun to rub in the faces of ... . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to ... thing to buy was the mystery bag. The mystery bag was a veritable wealth

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  inch thick, is absolutely hilarious, and, according to the back cover ... event called Splash, in which pretty much anyone can volunteer to teach a ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  , since it is supposedly the middle of winter, I didn't think to bring one ... probably have, since according to Wikipedia it's the second most viral video ... picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  ended up going to school in the same city, and that has markedly changed ... we actually did it in the Spring! Most of the people that I know prefer ... , I guess.  Social Experiences  I realize I go to Oath a lot. In the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  MIT or the college process, you are in the wrong post. SCRAM! This is an ... majority of my writings are applicable to the masses. Everyone is welcome, come on in, the water is just fine. In my first piece I addressed

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  of the stupid memes we like to yell in lounges. The best feature is ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020