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• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  face with the best desserts in town for one night is worth the couple ... only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... 't come out for another 9 minutes-- no 8 minutes now. But, out of morbid ... Another Believer by Rufus Wainwright begins to play in the background

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  D '63 was awarded the Nobel memorial prize in Economics. For MIT, this ... Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and ... room for the press conference and posed for pictures with Diamond. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  loaded “What’s your major?,” then the fun begins. I give the usual 30 ... talk about it for that long– I just need to know that the conversational game is being played. If you’re interested about all the various things I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  serve us our 6.006 exam." (credit for pic goes to FB user Loneoceans Ggy ... , for two hours at a time, has no midterms, no final, and 6.2 out of 7 (i ... workload, my friends and I have made a promise to insert fun, spontaneous

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my ... " by They Might Be Giants begins with the lyrics, "I saw the best minds ... readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  visited. 32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason. 33. I hate when people ... clothes for my closet/dresser. 37. I hate to sleep. 38. I think I am smart ... the beach. 45. I had the chicken pox. 46. I'm excited for the future

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... the swim test lol) For the first time, I have no mandatory soccer ... -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cognitive Processes or: i take a personality test again

  

  ? Maybe...maybe not? I think personality tests are really fun for me because ... For those who know me well, you'll know that I'm an absolute sucker for personality tests. I've done practically every personality test

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  Well...if there’s one thing you can know for sure about studying at ... realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in ... learning all about model-making, 3D modeling, 3D printing, etc. But now for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  to spend my summer playing catchup. I asked my parents for permission ... that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by March. [annotation note="An event for Latino admitted students"]Sin Li

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ="the Educational Studies Program, best known for running Splash ... all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... for most of his lunches and dinners, for example. Come to think of it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  red Gatorade and chick flicks chased down by Star Wars. (Yesterday was ... have them take a look at me. Being sick in college is not fun, no matter ... really fun dorm-wide white water rafting trip that I unfortunately missed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  . Making games to make games is fun and good, but using games for some sort ... next semester. This week, it's time for a slightly different discussion ... for being somewhat spammy and prone to flame wars) thread that got

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  gained international recognition for discovering three of the largest known ... for Undergraduates, Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy ... meter telescope to observe 74 red supergiants, which are massive, cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT Bloggers Sniped Wrapped in which people take a LOT of photos of me around campus

  

  , some for different subgroups, one for random or fun things that happen ... series of group chats for work stuff or class materials. What's really cool is that you can make separate tabs for different topics. It's kind of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  . For those of you in transition years, graduating high school and ... was also (going to be) a transition year for me. I was determined to ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  people graduating this year for whome one year is 25%/33%/50% of their MIT ... say time is flying. Take for example MIT. When I was a first year, 100 ... slow. Then, I was a sophomore, and that eventually took up 50% of my

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  just staring at computer screens trying to solve puzzles for “fun.” Last ... Modernist poetry; writing vocal arrangements and plays for your friends to ... . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for ... protect our water. The red pattern and winged design is inspired by Native ... Sustainability Minor for the Class of 2017 and younger. He also suggested

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016