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• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... . Soon, people from throughout the Simmons community were doing whatever ... Simmons can do that well of a job of bringing people together. So thank you

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

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  , do not ask a software engineer to do anything inconsistent with their ... read essays titled things like "Do Machines Make History?" and "The

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  people can’t do integrals. At this point, I ask myself a very fundamental ... five. We had to do integrals, with a time limit. If you got one wrong ... or very excited about integrals to fit in, do well, or have fun at MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  -handed people have an advantage in combat. Why do we care about music? Why, in ... paints. Do we have an innate template for culture, from language to ... . Religion suggests oneness of the universe. Why not do away with the word

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  whole point of going here.  There are 22+ majors, and if you do a quick ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... starts with doing excellent work, but it extends beyond that. It requires

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  ISOs, and you want to do smart nerdy things with smart nerdy people, you ... hospitality I was shown. I don't know where I will go next. All I can do - all anyone can do - is try to put themselves in new, occasionally uncomfortable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... of where you come from." I'm still doing that a little bit. I still ... I'm going to try. *I actually took notes everywhere. I do that in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  -six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... tolerance for discomfort. It sucks in the moment, but lets you do cool things

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  they) taught me to see it. When I do the best I can, reading applications ... thing to do is, however naive and unreachable that hope might be, it's in ... whatever you do next.   The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  campus, since that's one of the hardest things to do when the semester is ... time at MIT when I'm doing things completely unrelated to classes. I ... doing that.

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  handles them: "Doing something—bouncing something off the wall? You don’t do that, it’s a memorial. Writing something on the wall? You don’t do that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  doing homework with them and talking until too late. It’s about the way ... want to tell so much, but where do I even start? Perhaps with the first ... waffles and socialization. Then I will do math. And I will be very very

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  can do any of that, I need to learn some German. Fulbright agrees, so ... cochlear implants, a biochemist is doing research on multiple sclerosis, a ... class, he wasn’t my advisor, I wasn’t doing research with him. But we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  like to do sometimes when no one is watching) since winter break so to ... apartment, all I wanted to do was eat nectarines (which, by the way, are ... penchant for working far more during the holidays than I ever do during the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  't have anything to do, I felt guilty - like I should be doing work or ... times I don't want to be anywhere else. I do belong here, after all

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  time to do things that would let me relax like baking, drawing, and ... Nati, I'm kind of taking this semester to do the things that I enjoy doing and recuperate. Since I've been here, I got into running

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  I do okay - I've been really nervous! But I am taking it with my good friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... doing all the problem sets super early, so I hope it goes okay! Other

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  and wearing a MAGfest badge. Me: Hey! Do we have a fridge in our room ... "are there fridges in these rooms?" and not "do we have a fridge in the ... favorite character from a video game you have to do it exactly right or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... for being able to do a full performance in a lecture hall without ... , you can still do so here: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/MIT2013. Your

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  , etc.) of the My Little Pony show or franchise. They typically do not ... go and watch MLP to find out for yourself ;) Doing a humanized (or ... what I can do. And another thing. Some of my friends decided the outfit

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013