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• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to ... there's a cloud of information in my brain that's impossible to touch, but ... . I think the only thing I know now is that I know very little, and that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... .[/annotation]:  The Friendly Toast is astir with early-morning chatter and the bubbling ... back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final exam, there is only 1 final exam. That’s right. One exam that ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  all the things I've been up to -- and there is some studying, I promise ... ). In the leadup to cruftmas, the hall is always frenzied with a dozen ... that often. It was nice to be able to spend a few hours chatting and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that choice?" President Hockfield: "There is a huge amount of choice at MIT, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  kinds of popular platforms. And the real cultural story is that a place ... There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I ... $500,000 and a ton of faculty sponsors to actually do it) There's been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  physics discoveries, and I tend to get a tad sidetracked in the popular ... on that when the day comes! There are only a few more experiments left ... are! And with that, I will go grab a book off the bookshelf, Blood

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  90-something days of summer (Part 1) MIT people around the world

  

  to see them going on to college and pursue that love. It's the MIT ... is the technique triathletes use to forget about small things that go ... the night, brought a darkness that blinded my senses and cooled the air

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Flip Flops The original title of this entry was "YakTrax."

  

  , and a tshirt. There's actually a lot to take into consideration when you ... start wearing shoes and socks. To get ready for the winter, this week the ... learned a bit about winter fashion, and how to dress appropriately. I was

  • by Bryan
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  forgot to carry the actual cards. This is why I live in a dorm that’s close ... my turn. In a few minutes, I have my ticket, and I sprint back to the ... seems that now my body is out of its initial shock and ready to process

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  have rarely been scientists and engineers. This isn't to say that there ... that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is low- power RF ... traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  , The Goldfinch. but there are a few that I consumed way too quickly and ... read, I see a lot that I remember vividly and still love: The Wind ... , Thinking Fast and Slow, a renowned tome that delves into the intricacies of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an ... , I took 5.111, which is (re)Introduction to Chemistry. The semester ... the big dome is still up, which totally aids climbing it, not like that

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  memories that it will hold for us down the line.   Oh, and here. There ... is a Brass Rat? Well, it's a ring that comes in gold, silver, or stainless steel. It has a beaver on it. And a dog. And an owl. So... there are

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  writing and we want to give you all the points you deserve." I've gotten a ... this is by far the most polite and complimentary. It's nice to see the ... color and perm gift certificates to the "Unique 8 Salon." I just got a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  "institutional memory" a lot. it refers to the knowledge that's shared between the ... to be less busy. anyway, the point is that having [annotation note ... , probably." we lament the fact that we're both seniors, and that there isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  , I've had the opportunity to perform a more diverse and challenging ... minute straight, and there's a great crescendo where the choir chants, "T ... ..." all the way down to blastoff. Yes, that concert certainly was a unique

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  convinced me to add a compartment to my table, so that you could open the top ... few days and decided that I hated it. So I donated it to the floor ... At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  . Anyway, one thing that I've started to do with my friends is playing the ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... to capture is ~the deep talk~. Most college students have experienced

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  is so integral to the present and future of the world, especially the ... . The phenomenon is called Campbell’s Law, and it states that the more any ... distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018