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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  extracurricular at MIT is really a bigger commitment than it was in high school, because free time is definitely at a premium. I still like musical theatre ... Du Temps" was written while the composer was a prisoner of war in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... for UROPs is currently $9/hr, and that's how much you'll be paid if you ... . Did you run into any complications? Also, how much credit is normally

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Debunked I clear things up.

  

  said e-mails are in the works). I am a student. Students don't get to ... labeled as, A GUESS. When Matt or Ben post when the decision date is we will ... acceptable so I'll try to keep it to a minimum. Feel free to use your

  • by Snively '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how ... forward to exercising in, I've realized how important it is to take a break ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  is who we are. Without people, MIT isn’t much more than a random pile ... ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to ... things? With that, I took a step back and stopped focusing so much on what

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  , cite a theorem, and turn it in. Well, that is exactly what I did, and I ... in my schedule. I saw that it was much more rewarding to take a course ... low on a homework before, and I honestly was so confused as to how I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... intricacies of turbulent flow, how it disrupts normal optics, and a million

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a ... difficult weeks in a row when you know there's a break coming up, no matter

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  better than random guesses? And how can we know? This is a very good ... there is a lot of truth in that. Fundamentally an admissions process is ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  yourselves. There is so much to do here, so much to get involved in, and so ... to tell us how you handled a situation in which things did not go ... how I don’t understand him and this is usually my cue to calmly stop

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  It's a little-known fact that McCormick Hall is home to not only ... Hall, which is a double-stack of donuts that houses two bloggers plus ... soaked in whatever toxic substance fills the Charles River, smashed a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is ... in the blogs... stay tuned! *edit: while I was writing this post, a ... not much of a supporter of modern art. Oh well. Oh, and a Mood Meter

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  rude awakening. 18.01 is much harder than BC Calc. Much much harder in ... was but 1 problem in the whole set, hence why at 6:30 a.m. this is what ... fulfillment in figuring out a hard problem, and working hard is only one aspect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... and compete for a spot in the [annotation note="National Collegiate ... in the U.S."]NCAA[/annotation] tournament.  The regular season was a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  the spring really proved to me how much I had grown as a student in ... published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be ... things I’ve made. I had a plan for how and when I’d finish writing. The

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  which was just singing is now in shards on the table, speaks to how difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... , the question of how to best distribute bodily mass on sleds is a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... out the details with the actors. Anyway, Stephanie is in a kind of large ... set online using our floor funds! My roommate Kunal is a communications

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  . Recently, I tried to tap back into how I felt when I was in her shoes. For ... ’s have been no longer than three weeks, in countries where I had a better ... pivoted towards my dad, “How can you not be upset? Are you not going to miss

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  an absurd way was still living rent-free in my head. We talked about a ... turn in a pset or three, but that’s what P/NR is for, and I stopped ... lot of time worrying about how I’m going to survive in a professional

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  , but this one is much more special than last year's (you might hear about it in the news). Simmons is hard at work as well, preparing for the ... think how I was attending these events with my friends as a freshman and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015