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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  . "Beards?" you say. Yes, beards. See, November is also home to a hallowed ... you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... , growing a beard is actually quite tough. To illustrate the self

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  on anger understanding and learning and navigating

  

  how I had really become a bitch. Or how I was always angry all the time. Or how I should simply "care less." I think this is the same mentality ... instead have started laughing more. Is this a good thing? Unsure. I think I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room ... questions, and try not to make really dumb[annotation note="A neg is when you ... things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... proportional to how much my ears hurt. Also, because I didn’t expect the glass to ... is dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, which means that it helps

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  . Mrs. Moore, because she had seen how much I had struggled in algebra, and how hard I worked to get an A in it, coming in every lunch to work ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... 's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... means psets, a midterm, a final, and daily lectures. The pace is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  even before getting here that emphasize how well-known it is. There are ... how sometimes people don’t have any clue about where MIT is. My simple ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  happened a week later at CPW is an impossible feat. I remember the people ... . I’ve expressed these “MIT is a perfect fit” sentiments before, with a ... convenience store; Ama is shown with a tub of icing, deemed later a liquid at

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  the first floor with a window facing. I wonder if there is a chance that ... the morning. The ground is shaking and my head is pounding and it's a ... light is broken in suite 106, is there any way a bulb could be replaced

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . This is a great class, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone with an ... , and to the best of my knowledge its true nature is still a mystery). A ... Mechanics is a "deeper" theory of reality than classical mechanics, yet in the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... , hire a professional agency to take on this project—and I am very much not ... once we’re all back. 2020 For me, design is as much about letting go

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to ... teaches you how to be a *good* software engineer. *good* means that your ... , which is why i'm not completely bummed out about the class. but i am a bit

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it ... . Find a partner! Being Tim is Hard Work, and you need someone to guide you ... how to keep cool inside the suit. 3. Complete a quiz to show you know

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  ="REX stands for Residence Exploration, which is a 5-ish-days period where the ... captains of our own destinies, but transitioning into college is a test you ... ’m laughing, I’m relishing a new, intoxicating sense of freedom that I’ve never

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author ... How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is ... diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  questions: "What is the dark stuff?" and "How do you think about such a ... matter" like stars and galaxies. The other 95 percent of the universe is a ... who receive a "big envelope" in the mail, it's not because we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…

  

  (I'd say Clueless is a more faithful adaptation of Emma). The largest ... Cafe is the best place in town for soup dumplings (very, very yummy ... (and most expensive) movie theater. When I walked in, I saw a big crowd

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  ) Space is, for lack of a better word, neat[3]. Last semester, in 8 ... . I'm kind of awestruck at how you can go from "this galaxy is ... age, and is flying away from our own galaxy as a whole at X kilometers

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014