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  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  , innovation and creation - are important, even central, to the Internet. And they are important and central to MIT too. That's why MIT Professor Sir ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  , because scuba ends at 10pm, giving me only an hour to finish the pset ... to allot your time to. My three hour scuba diving class is interesting ... minutes across campus to the [annotation note = "the lesser-known younger

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  more hours of studying, watching the clock strike midnight so I can go to ... . So, I’ve made myself a promise: to spend at least one hour each day ... Every modern TV show with more than 3 seasons seems to have one thing

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  Back in my first semester, I wrote a lot. I had spare hours each day, and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  do to talk with an international security expert for an hour?  I sent ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  technical as MIT -- it became evident to us that art was something important ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  applying to. This was important! This was about my future. *facepalm* I ... I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I remember asking my parents to bless my application. I'm pretty sure that I

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  roadmap. You all have brilliant minds. You are going to do big important ... ) some advice for how to quickly finish his art notebook cover project ... goofing on collages. “Ok, whatever, I was just trying to help.” Because I

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  -CPW-rant that the previous item became, it's important enough to be repeated here ... Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  often outside of school. When you get to see people all hours of the day, when they’re happy, sad, stressed, and dramatically dancing to an hour ... within the span of an hour keeping succulents alive sprinting to

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  to spend my entire summer sitting on my sofa. And so I spent hours and ... now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  tried to convince him that 1000 seconds was something like 3 hours ... Signs that I would someday Do Science can be traced to when I was 6 +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  analytically rigorous. I tried to describe an article I recently read from the ... , but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained ... University Press), even those trying "faithfully" to represent Shakespeare

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  collapse. I d̶i̶e̶d̶  slept for 19 hours straight and then went to the bad ... ’m excited to give you the full story of the complete mess that we made. Here ... used volumes to scale up normal pie recipes. After we had our ingredients

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , but better to be sure. I didn't see the message until hours later, as ... to focus after the first hour. Then the next day I could barely pay ... around in bed for what felt like an hour trying to fall asleep. I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my ... watched, clutching a clipboard to my chest. Exam Room 1 is not a normal

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  next hour and a half, before I head to the kitchen and cook lunch. The ... asks if I'm free to play some Among Us, and we play for a few hours ... people want to play Tichu. The four of us play games for hours. By the time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while ... prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several ... estimated top speed of 174 miles per hour, could traverse the continental U

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... ; Spent 8 hours at the lab. My postdoc wants to get my current project ... think that at other schools, maybe athletes don't have to do silly things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  , and types of people so it's important to try and live somewhere you ... double (my double) and some singles. It was kind of important for us to ... works. In some respects that's tricky to answer, but I can give it a shot

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008