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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  , which scared the hell out of me when I didn’t get admitted to other ... -dimensional than most media gives us credit for. It makes me sad to think how many ... ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  . then again, i'd rather not get my hopes up in case things go to shit ... airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... :35pm) i get to the airport with jebby. we're planning on rooming

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... do not do justice to how Clay-obsessed some Claymates are. I don ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  !* So I get to class on Tuesday and see this: "Interesting, that should ... what it seems like to me. My professor was sitting at home, in his ... for learning about capacitance. Well, we'll have to rectify that in

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write, speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are texts to memorize, drills to practice, and grammar to study. In Art

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  , so as long as you get us the copies in a timely manner, there will be no impact. The best way to get us a missing piece is by fax. Our ... have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. The mission of the blogs is to help our ... to help advise creative projects in the office and serve as a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you ... college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... local: I can go home to get things. Sometimes that means I can go home and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... "every government dollar invested in energy R&D returns 40-fold to the economy — in energy efficiency, energy savings and in new technologies — a

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  earlier today, "How many points do you think we get on caltechvsmit.com for ... Some of you may remember last year, when Caltech students came to ... decided to have a little fun with Caltech. You see, Caltech has this famous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  don't mind a lack of sleep too much. In the morning, I get to watch the ... , have coordinated their Problem Sets to be due in almost symmetrical time ... . Challenges come in bursts and send an electrifying signal to the brain. "12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... is so difficult to answer is because of the problems I discussed in the ... -the-cuff judgments deserve to be taken seriously.   In other words, if you have a

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

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... guys, if you get into MIT there's a high likelihood that you'll get to ... swimmingly. In addition to our suites there are several others, one of which is

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  , first picturing ourselves in the 10+ companies we applied to, and then in ... take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... feeling in the air. Listening to the exciting vamp in the background

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] Before I got to MIT, in all of my classes, there ... problem was to get the answer. What about the answer? Why does it even ... assignment was to bring in photos and talk about why we liked/disliked them. I

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  up applying to Math in Moscow, which is usually held in-person in ... motivate me to actually watch the lectures in a timely fashion and come up ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  wanted to teach about Love is that it was my primary game framework in both ... pumpkins to gain health and stop moving. Here is a video of it in action ... teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  : how close to last am I for PE team picks? Physical education was, to ... , something to poke at: c'mere and look at how weak Camille is. It wasn ... someone to notice that I was adamant on skipping meals because of how I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022