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• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I ... think about the marshmallow in front of her, or how you’re not thinking ... dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I remembered. When the CodeIt application opened up in late August, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  you have to take a GRE? And how was it?" I did, in fact. I took both the ... his makeup off and ramble about how things were at PHS theatre back in ... :00 PM; Athletics Fair in Rockwell Cage, 2:00-4:00 PM (bonus: I'll be in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  I was in for--originally thinking the project would take the rest of ... in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... enlarger. I fancied seeing what an 8x10 negative would look like, but the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  add that I'll buy Jonathan's description, and that it's amazing how much ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the ... degree in that major/sub-major in 2005. (Yes, I made it in Word. Yes, I do

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  my computer more than I would otherwise like. These days, I use a web ... Writers (MFA in Writing) random articles (7) These are mostly things I ... musical" - someone in a pit orchestra I was conducting mentioned this "bob

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... thought they would find out how little I know and how stupid I was and I ... school preview in many ways and I wanted to find out whether I would like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... buy it again in the future as I plan on taking more Spanish classes. I ... do not want to do; working is how I run from my fear that nobody will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  start walking early in the morning and sometimes I would sleep in and walk ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... taught me exactly what I need and what I don’t. Much how extra stuff weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... of my shoulders. I didn’t buy dorm decor and didn’t spend much time in ... [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  in this dormspam I sent out of desperation: I will pay $15 for an H2GO ... that exclusively does corporate swag, so if I wanted to buy one, I'd have to buy 500. I've also asked several hallmates to let me see if their

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  irrational when I am around you. --How can I know so many hundreds of digits of ... baby, how about I tinker with your software while you turn on my hardware ... the entire class in one place, I even ran into some people that I hadn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  room as a last resort to putting off psets, I buy groceries whenever I ... busy, it’s that I haven’t been busy enough. Last Monday, in MAS.S66 ... in a standard deck, and wrote an unique ID to each one. Then I wrote an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  arrival... I'm wondering how long I can get away without buying a real ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I ... count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Fahrenheit. I learned how to spell cumulonimbus, in preparation for my brother’s spelling test, and I learned how to cook things that are not cereal, in ... in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a ... becuase I don't understand quite how IMAP works on Eudora 6.2. No, really. Really. How many e-mails does Mitra send me in a typical day? Let

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  I, and I am him....." Yesterday, there was terrible traffic in the ... there were elephants in Cambridge, I ran to get some elephant bait to try ... Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... , but we couldn't see exactly how. I was skeptical that it would be that ... would slide off instead of pool in the middle. We finally decided that it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009