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• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  deckbuilding roguelike that I've poured over sixty hours into. If you can't tell, that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days ... You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  for a play, a musical, and a pit orchestra. I figured if I was going to ... the end of the semester. You can also just try it for a week and then ... musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  from last term, where by some miracle I managed to get all three. For ... Last week, I dropped 9.15 from my preregistration schedule for the ... you who took Calc AB can opt for 18.01A/18.02A, which covers the whole

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for ... the iPhone Product Design team, and will be working in Cupertino for the ... I will be blogging essentially zero for the next 6 months.  I will

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  ." ArtBeat can feel slightly awkward for a poor college student, and I have ... dancing to kids' tunes. I like to come for the crafts and get stuck at a ... stuff from sponsors (last year, I got a free plant, and this year, I got a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  campus. I tried a different storage company last summer farther away from ... from the picture above, I have a ton of stuff. A lot of it is clothes. I ... Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  cycles – making rounds from “Hey…I can do this…” to “OMG. This is impossible!” and back again. But true to my procrastinatorial roots, I can ... stage in Kresge, thanking Pres. O for a great opening act - he was one

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single ... verbal final presentation is also given to a panel of specialists (for this ... erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  where I’ll live a year from now, but wherever it is, I’ll look for the ... back in it. I’d better be back in it for something that matters, a tech ... ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  heat into heating for surrounding buildings. Yay! Where was I? Oh ... on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the shortest route from my house to my work was across a bay, I guess I'd see ... set off on a commuter boat (really!) from Boston Harbor to Hull. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Preparing for CPW

  

  admitted folks are excited! I just got back from an amazing week in Scandinavia and I think it's time for a little update. Forgive me, though, for not writing a whole lot this evening -- I'm still on Stockholm time, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  anything aside from great, great books. I also read a couple boring books ... - Accomplished..kinda? I've been using Notion a lot more for goal setting, note ... week. - Typical. This means that I should usually go for about 50 blogs a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  . First, a quick background just so you guys know where I am coming from. I ... project, who seems very hopeful that a lot can come from a space where ... nothing would be cooler than a public lab where I can walk in with an idea

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  . Whenever I get a kind email, a note, I file it away for moments where I feel ... that I just don't believe. If you think about it for a few more moments ... 'm always thinking, "and then what?" How do we get from a point where you

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  during the semester can be hard. Early into the semester, I made a ... originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break ... mostly, I was on top of my problem sets. There was a funny incident, where

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  's literally nothing I can't turn into a formula):     Where S is ...   Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that

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

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  after. From her balcony window, I can see the bright lights of the town ... -up instinct, and then I jaunt around for the morning, and crash for a nap in the ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  I'm sitting on a JetBlue flight from San Francisco to Boston ... most of the event. I also got a list of names from Dumbledore, of MIT ... came up and slipped a card into my hand. Bewildered, I looked around for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013