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• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  likely. My pantry of food resembles that of the Soup Nazi. Anyways, I grab ... this thing called the Lagrangian and The Principle of Least Action that ... , the lecture on Monday was on some of the basics of differential geometry

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  and take their minds off the constant demands of an MIT education. Bad ... take up most of my time during the day, and I also needed to finish a ... enough time to get my fill of goofing around before the hell of spring

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... few pedestrians as well, so walking on the streets is kind of lonely ... most of the skyline, not some scraggly palm trees on the side of the road

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  himself an actual MIT class. As usual, Prof. Sadoway (former Chair of the ... music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am ... part was Sadoway was moving fast. Not lightning fast, but the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... of Soft Matter." Even though I'd never be able to take the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  . options at the end of my job search i had offers from the following three ... doing QR as my full-time job i’d likely end up discovering parts of the ... . the part of their work which i'm excited about is developing ai tools

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... , that last half of the sentence was difficult to type given that I ... the superposition of all the little solutions. It's not that hard to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  elusive skill of patience – waiting for the bus, waiting on a friend at a ... feared the finality of it, all at the same time. I find the act of ... : Grab some popcorn and escape the stress of this world for the stress of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  everything is going in a positive direction. :) The rest of the summer was ... the hell out of my room. Coming up in the next three weeks with ... I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  kind of embarrassed for disappearing for a month from the blogs ... among the ups and downs of my life. But things have been busy. In the ... . 9-5, morning coffees, the whole shamwow. I've been doing a lot of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Theme I've been looking at too many de-motivational posters!

  

  Because it seems to be the theme of Paul's blog.

  • by Snively '11
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language ... Spanish, and recently decided to get back into the habit of using it once ... leagues based on their level of participation that week. The app awards

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

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

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... representative of the schedule of a typical MIT student, nor should it be. It is ... 'll continue to remind you of this throughout the post, but I thought I'd be up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers

  

  midway and the athletics midway, where you can visit booths of different ... of the options I'm pondering). I did like being on crew, but there ... , of course. I think most of the other varsity sports require a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my ... four months. Coming home for the first time after this whirlwind of a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  art things #1 illustration, graphic design, ceramics, and photography

  

  Although it may not be as apparent as other aspects of MIT, the ... making stuff. Instead of attempting to provide an expansive overview of the ... design is based on the iconic cable cars of San Francisco, which I grew up

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • December 1, 2023