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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a ... course, doesn't really hold a candle to something I did this summer -- I ... them apart we have to take a small piece of their tails (don't worry

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... [annotation note="they were like… “let’s go to a bar after!” and I was like.....“i’m ... Today is August 31st, the final day of REX, but I’m writing this from

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  a couple seconds. what was i supposed to say? hi, i’m not really sure why i’m here. or hi, one of my friends killed himself, and i don’t know ... before. no, i reply, i haven’t. she asks me to take a seat. a few minutes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  . I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... , I'm one of those people that says "epic" a lot). Trekking down ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won't ... It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to Life, Back to Reality Did you know that you can make an equation out of anything?

  

  " Needless to say with all those tests and psets, I'm having a math overload ... Name the song I stole the lyrics from and win a cookie. So this week ... chemoattractants in a microfluidic device - 2 problem sets 2.005 - Thermal

  • by Bryan
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Anticipation a little something to keep you company

  

  're probably feeling a lot of butterflies right now. Butterflies that might want ... a time. Because today is special. Because you'll never be in this ... ever again. So here's a little something to help you cherish every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  a few other artists that I really love. I didn't realize that music ... I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn't

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  and instead I grabbed an old MathCounts t-shirt and I felt like a total ... sin in a past life. So, I always give some excuse as to why I'm growing ... doesn't even live in Pennsylvania when he's representing them in the US

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  . Rewind to Friday, noon. Thanks to Mystery Hunt Kickoff (a.k.a. “Zyzzylcon ... history won't let me forget it. For your viewing pleasure, here's a ... was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  , guess what country I'm in: Looks like Europe, doesn't it! For a second ... my life. I'm kind of like a less creepy version of the subservient ... . "Cross suchandsuch a bridge for .25 miles." Yessir Google Maps, I'm at

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  of the missed quiz it doesn’t feel like a reset day; I catch up on ... the more we know We don't know anything I'm not hosed beyond belief; I’m ... , but I haven’t gotten there yet. The search for a reset day feels like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  [/annotation] in it, don't worry) and both were delicious. there's a dope park nearby ... to do during the academic year since i didn't have a bike! bike's are ... Lower Allston. Boston is a completely different place in summer and i'm

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  ; I enjoyed the lesson but didn’t see a kettle bell again for months ... , since you couldn’t skip a workout and promise to make it up the next day ... triceps were visible in a way they hadn’t been before. And my carpal tunnel

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  at South Station on Friday night South Station is a transportation hub ... : Economics) and I met there on Friday night to hear Jewel perform a free concert. There was some tie-in with Verizon's release of a newer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  technical projects. “a lot of people” means… actually i’m not sure. i don’t ... extremely wealthy? i wouldn’t mind, but it’s not a goal that motivates me day ... say about me? i’m reminded of a poem i enjoyed recently: “They aim to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . similarly, looking at my grades is a choice i can make. i don't have to look ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  wherever you go, there you are alive internet theory

  

  of a saying but I couldn't quite remember. I thought it went "If you ... ! Life is hard! I don't really know what I'm doing! My mother tells me that ... ? To be sincere,  I didn't think I'd make it near. My twenty second

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2025