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• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... , so it's just a reminder of how close rush is. it's exciting, of course ... after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  living in a dorm on campus. I was in this program for two summers (I took ... sitting in a lecture and listening. To each his own.) Duke University ... Scholar Programs offer a diverse range of classes in visual arts, sports

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  This entry was inspired by a Washington Post article about how the use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  how stressful a semester of classes really was. Being submerged in work ... ’t appreciate how much effort we had been putting in until we didn’t have to ... ’t know. You should ask one. I hear they’re very friendly. The truth is, a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free ... admissions blogger meeting, which primarily consists of a discussion about how ... professor friends talks about how they’ve been working to improve diversity in

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  summarize it in a manner that is "understandable to everyone." Anyway, all ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  there, so that’s a pretty good sign I’ll fit in. :) I also loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... dorm, Simmons Hall. Well, how could you not love Simmons?! They have a

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... . Regardless of your opinion of him, he is at least definitely one of the best in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  tuned in to her feelings, while he is a kid who frequently feels angsty or ... : Apocalypse came in the form of a deadly pandemic, and now the world is reduced ... Dreams, and his encounters with people in the waking world. It is a wild

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  is how I learned that Matt McGann has a giant log in his room for ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked ... thread: How much do I like MIT? The best answer I can think of is, more

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... absolutely no free time whatsoever. I vaguely learned how to manage my time so

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  . They gave a conference talk in England about how my wing played a silly ... feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... out of the MFA in a silent, dream-like stupor of which only a movie as ... : melancholiathemovie.com Without sharing too much about the film, Melancholia is &ldquo

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  be a look you want in a shot, it is not the look we want. David ... . The mass of a photon in any frame but its rest frame is E/c^2. The more ... background light. David is a shape in the dark. Putting some of them

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  people from MIT here to take me in a van to campus?” Luckily, I eventually ... could now see my breath in the air. Still, I was in a state of confusion ... in what appeared to be a maze, I saw the dome, and I had a moment of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute ... planning. In thermo, something's "free energy" is related to its enthalpy ... substrate of my emotion and the v_max is how much I could possibly be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... , make sure you have time to decompress. "You" time is never a waste of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... emails like "pink lamp in 2-232" or "one and three quarters of a gallon of ... . It's all free, too. But the thing is, you have to move fast. Running

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  , didn’t realize just how much of a powerhouse MIT was. But if you think ... saw how girls in my sorority would leave for a weekend and return as ... task—no, my duty—to finally say what needs to be said: MIT is a jock

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  being in such a large atmosphere. Worries about how these classes could ... due to it being a much larger class, which is compounded by our virtual ... significant is this number? Does a ratio of 5:1 mean a lot when you can have a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020