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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see" atomic hydrogen out in space, astronomers look for its signature: radiation ... wavelengths?!" you ask. A fine question. In fact - one might say that it's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  going on! Not everything is all that interesting (in fact, most of it is ... [/annotation]. [Monday 5/20] Started this blog post!I ate lunch at Chipotle in Kendall ... friend. Protip: storage facilities in Boston/Cambridge get lots of business

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in ... clear thinking. Sometimes, this works; sometimes, it's as simple as ... MIT students have to live in a dorm for all four years (they don't), or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  projects too--the Design/Build/Fly team is working towards competition day in ... field. But in a lot of cases, that sort of attitude is self-fulfilling; a ... , I applied for an undergraduate research position in the Media Lab. As

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  bottle to mix them in. And then...BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" He whisks his hand around in a circle, to mimic an accretion disk. *     *     * I met Carl ... -inch refracting telescope was the second largest telescope in the world

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  complained at first, but in the end, she didn’t regret it. Niederdenkmal ... look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is ... taught me not to put faith in the widespread claim that brown people don

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  CPW is Monday, April 2, 2007. That's in five days! I know you're all second-semester seniors, but procrastination is not your friend in this ... . ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- Shameless CPW Plug #1: Meet The Bloggers Want to meet these guys in real life

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  house team sent care packages to the residents housed in baker. there was ... ) submit a request to remain in on-campus housing. i applied. i also ... in the summer. baker isn’t east campus, but it’s more than i feel like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Writer’s Bloc

  

  (and I know you're out there) can buy it here. Dylan is currently hard

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  tarp in the dregs of Chinatown, torrents of rain flushing from the sky ... waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... 've bought cursory custard buns and huddled in a cafeteria-style bakery under a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a ... validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it ... 'm getting better at handling feelings around failure, and that in itself makes

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to ... the fall semester, and sometime late in IAP, I hit on the idea of a ... plan in place, I resolved to finish my door by the end of IAP. And, well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because ... , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  Some point back in April, after all the decisions had come in, my mom ... year from a slightly different angle. However, keep in mind that you are ... about the things in your life that are cool and unique. Don't be afraid to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  in mind for this semester. We've been having exec meetings through summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... ="Information platform for organizations and programs in the MIT community"]MIT Engage

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  The way we interact in our three-dimensional world is frankly kind of ... most clear understanding of this may be through the directions on Earth ... -dimensional world results in a two-dimensional image of what can be seen from where

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  not sound like an ass in doing so. I've got them all written down, and ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... have goals in life. I never really got around to making any before I came

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  clearly and responds to all of our questions. I like that I can be casual in ... class. I had done horribly in physics all my life and I knew it was ... content learned in lectures and provide recitation sheets where you apply

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  in this field, etc. It is no longer a question that can be easily ... unfortunate series of events, what I want to be has always been pretty clear. If you are new to the MIT blogs, mine in particular, there are a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  end seriously sore from ~6 hours in one seat. I’m 24 minutes out from ... Corridor, I could see clear through to the other side. The entire hallway was ... used to say, “Walk in like you own the place.” Marching through the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015