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• Blog / MIT Life

  Blog Entry: Recession Edition At MIT, your spoon is too big.

  

  decreased in a geometric series. It is predicted that Paul would have finished ... In times of economic crisis, Random Hall perseveres in upholding the ... “too hosed” with homework to participate in the social event, eventually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that ... of drug stores in the area, so unless you have a particular surplus of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  gondola ride. I would recommend to anybody going to Venice in the near ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown ... every afternoon. Maybe they spray tourist pheremones too. I would. The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  AM, would be a horrifying thought. But on this particular day, I feel ... minutes before lifting, I sit in a corner and nibble on a breakfast cracker ... robot as thanks" in return for 15 minutes of my day, and because I am a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... , psets, eat, sleep, repeat. i fill the hours in between with mindless

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  semester was a total blur. In some ways, I did it wrong. 5 classes and a UROP ... sucked in. Through my experiences last semster though, I was able to understand more about myself and where I'd like to go in the coming years. MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  didn't really know how I would feel about it. Turns out, I found my ... ). This would give me a deeper understanding of the techniques I use, in ... ," and it's really flexible. In 18C, I would take a variety of course 18

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  showed new people how to make them as they came in. I don’t how much we ... absolutely suck at. I would often miss the ball right in front of me, but by ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  's right there in my pset, how cool is that?? I just know my friends thought I had ... I'm interested in would be unsustainable. I need to choose something ... the difference in the sheer number of classes I would need to take to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 ... , if I can't solve this riddle, I won't be accepted into MIT. In reality ... grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... freshmen to cook with them, or to be in a food co-op with them. (yes, I ... of how much we love what we do. But on some level I don't think it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  more and more about how the world around me functions. I would always ... I went to that other school, I would end up in academia forever. If I ... be an imperfect fit. I was more interested in how the models being used

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... would enroll, percentage-wise), but generally it ranges. I'm sure they ... . I like that I have learned how to do a lot of things, especially

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  answer blog that I mentioned. People would come in and they would ask ... ? Chelsea: Um, well, I’m Chelsea. I’m a junior in course 21E. 21E is something ... , computer science. I am in your house because you, uh, invited me here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and ... ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  creepy. He asked if I would take a picture of him in a costume he’d just ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... would likely never become anything on their own. I have a similar thing ... have been floating around in my head for several months while I stressed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  of being in the class. Imagine how excited I was to have made the cut ... . But anyway - Now that I'm in the IAP EMT class, I get to experience the ... being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and ... my housemates would be good people or not, but i ended up having a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  my dorm just in time for the big day. I dug around in my closet for the rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people ... -less gloves...I even dyed my hair...and I was totally in character. I basically

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008