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• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  first three weeks each felt blissfully long, as if i’d found a way to ... has more to do with an inability to retrieve information than a problem with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... difficult for me that it physically aches. that it is difficult to focus on ... going through similar things made it easier to talk about it and easier to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to Python"]6.0001[/annotation]class recently ended, and it's time to unpack

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  class really fun. He's a really down to earth guy who has been really in ... , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... changed the length of psets to be shorter and be more manageable. He was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  to look like. Instagram feeds filled with beating rays of sunshine. Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places. Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... and support that so many people provided in order to make this the success that it was. To most of you, this puzzle probably ranged somewhere

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston area clients. i can't even begin to summarize everything i learned this semester, but you can start to poke around in the 6.811 course website to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... to me was: What do you want to work on during junior year? Junior Year

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... to the Midwest, so I was expecting the Windy City to greet me like this: Luckily I can say that beyond the weather, Chicago was quite good to me

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  Stata Center attempting to do my homework for EID (ESD.051, Engineering ... .390 (Introduction to Computational Biology), and 20.330 (Fields, Forces, and Flows in ... as putting in time to the GEL outreach committee. Over in the land of

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... the need to "out do" anyone here- but rather we fall into the temptation

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride ... some serious heat.  (according to accuweather it peaked at 108 ... -Yale-MIT trip to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, driving all the way

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  getting to the drive-in window where the lady says, "Here's your Big Mac ... .. can I have a look at those?" She says, "No." "Oh, and also, you have to ... means that you have to live in that dormitory for the year (unlike

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  What does August mean to you? For me it used to mean that school was ... that I want to take, classes that I find interesting. August is exciting ... haven't seen in 3 months are coming back to campus. This is what August

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow ... ? And how did you get to be hosts? Are all the bloggers automatically ... matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT ... . There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here ... rabbit to class. A rabbit. She brought a rabbit to a lecture about Thevenin

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  whole days to decide where to live this year. As for me, I seriously considered trying to move to East Campus for awhile, but in the end I decided to confirm my original assignment at Burton-Conner. The adjustment

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... them for long enough, they will implore you to think. After hastily

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If ... survival, whatever you’re trying to survive against. If you don’t hit that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023