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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context ... inside our individual rooms tend to be a bit more utilitarian, still

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  an exhibit for the Singapore Writers Festival. So I wanted to write ... art junkies, From stop and smell the flowers to imagine the ... ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... functions. There was no way to sort or filter the contents aside from doing so ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  my experiences enough to come up with some deep analysis of my semester ... with the world differently than I used to. Things I used to enjoy kinda suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  classes, i've ended up reducing the problems to mathematical manipulations ... (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the cosmetics brand Glossier. the paper is here. protip: if you want to stop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  to unspool from the rest of my body. I need a break, and luckily, I can get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... to the gas station to grab a few drinks. Fifteen seconds outside, and I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  , I’m just so glad, happy, elated, delighted to be here with people I’m already in love with and in a place I’m so proud to call home. (Alexa J. ‘20 ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the mountaintop were those who would travel to Brazil to study insects ... Berlin, Germany, and now am back at MIT to start a Ph.D. in Applied

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  With the title of this entry, you might think I’m about to tell you ... talking about the weekend BEFORE that, which happened to be a rare breed of weekend. “Being hosed” is an MIT phrase meaning “having too much to do and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting ... received a full scholarship worth more than $52,000 to attend MIT next year ... -year varsity starter in the outfield for the Warriors, applied to the MIT with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  call the other and put the phone on loudspeaker to spread the joy ... ways, I was extremely jealous of him. He gets to spend the next four ... then we headed back to our rooms. As we crossed Sixth Street the angelic

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard mit is as a prefrosh, to a rising sophomore whose gone through all the goods and bads of freshman year, what do you have to say about mit now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a ... helping to dilate my blood vessels, and how this all related to the pressure

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  thekeri said: And to Laura: update? Please? I'm suffering over Spring ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18 ... mad at me because my kindergarden teacher wanted to talk to her, and she

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  Here goes another Omnibus... sorry if I didn't get to your question (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers!). ------------------------------------- abstract wrote, "ummm... to break the long debate on percentages, do you know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  ’s final projects hell month, my stack of moving boxes are begging me to fill ... /full when you need to borrow/return a bike respectively. MIT also has an ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to ... to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022