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• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  tears. Pictures nor words cannot describe how glorious it is. It has ... Trail itself is a pretty standard hike, and has maybe 1000 feet of ... extra effort not to fall, because the trail itself is a four foot wide

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... junior fall. Its extent, however, is new. How did this happen? The key, as ... hold closest to my heart, my self-described raison d'être, is “being a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it ... to new scenarios — to create. On the other hand, trivia is much more

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... -Conner's culture is pretty much defined by fire alarms. Yeah, fire alarms and that ... two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  how much we at MIT appreciate you and how much effort you put into your ... Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading. :-) I know there are a lot of questions in the comments and I'll definitely get to

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  perhaps 5 classes and a UROP are too much... But heck, I've learned so much ... lifetime. Get ready to embrace it. Much love, A reluctantly, soon ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... (and by extension, you) is paying a gazillion dollars to have a top ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  of land a shade darker. Arkansas is gorgeous, but two years ago, I ... livestock is dwindling, replaced by the distasteful urbanity of a Southern ... somewhere about how “crying on public transport” is symptomatic of being in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  because the default is freshman year, and i thought it was a bug that the ... original didn't have. tldr: good to great features, UI/UX is a little ... when it was released, because this is a really good tool and the one i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  what happens after your laptop dies at MIT. I feel like this is almost a ... assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class. Someone did a presentation on how cringe culture is dead, or how ... impact of One Direction itself. High school is an awkward time. I was a ... , it also made me reflect on how much I tied my worth and identity to One

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  district is confusing to navigate because a silly surveyor decided to align it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... objectively made many of their lives much harder. this is maslow’s hierarchy of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then ... ?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well ... available to them.”  A corollary is that “…we may look just as favorably on

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  performing groups we have, and how big of a performing arts scene there is on ... further ado, here is just a sampling of the events happening this fall on campus! (OK, I lied, here's a small amount of ado: an important caveat is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  A guest entry by Adam The blogging machine that is Mollie is running ... , and in that picture right next to the bed is a model rocket. My first ... how he got set up, and he directed me to the department's UROP office. A

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  land that is Texas. I've been catching up on some much needed REM and ... (what a time) 30) Carved my first pumpkin (how have I gone so long ... do). But one thing is clear, it's been a blessed year. And the fact

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  "mental health days," this is a fairly common term (Google "take a mental ... pretty snazzy. Also, there is a very active AOL Instant Messenger chat room ... our E3 cards or is everything still being sorted? Does MIT sends out a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Cafe. For 75 cents you get as much brown rice as you can fit on a plate ... ? Everything at this food truck is pretty good, but beware of a similar truck ... in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  simplest solution: write. Writing is fun. That’s why I do it so much ... We begin with certain trivialities. *Resolution: A firm decision to ... times a week. I'll be strong, fit, the works. On Jan 2, it means: ahhhhhh

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014