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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules ... . I can't wait to get back up north and start skiing with my family at ... find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• 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 / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  MIT Blogger now etc. I literally get paid to contribute to my own ... digression here. In any case, I also used to hate tea. I thought it tasted ... tired (which MIT is prone to make you feel). There's a character in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  yo-yos, comics, and other adventures my junior spring schedule!

  

  about the research process in MechE. I'm planning to design an experiment ... II This class is a 6-unit follow-up to 2.678, a core class in MechE. I ... mostly lab-based, which has proven to be quite fun given how many people I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  now have to rely on catching myself in the right moment to get into the ... invited to go eat at Maseeh dining, I wanted to tap myself in so I could ... grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  how long this was supposed to be, and they told me FOUR HOURS. I signed ... thankfully in English and adapted to make more sense in modern times, and I ... armies," even though she had decided in herself to leave the cause to be

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  pursue the sport. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, how I ... and off the ice. I've even had the opportunity to perform in shows and ... 't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• 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 / 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 ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant ... quiet mountain, and then realize we had to walk back."]in fall,[/annotation] I vowed to go hiking. Tucson is gorgeous; and, importantly, in Tucson

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• 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 / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... ) to the professional work we're about to begin. My primary role in this ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... sleeping from 6am to noon for the past month so I wasn't sure how my body ... 's from all different industries were going to be gathered in one place less

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016