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• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... science, I spend nearly all of my waking hours hunched over a desk coding

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  to work hard and play hard, and helping out with Terrascope. And ... and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in ... , but we’re not obligated to make it fit the theme so long as we

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  swift hours, you're blissfully free to cruise along, guarded from the edge ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA's for 29 hours per day and then lied about it on my blog. (*I plan to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  .html. So after 3 hours of trying to learn CSS I went to the Dreamweaver ... Mollie has decided that she doesn't want to write any more "this is how my interview weekend went" entries. So seeing all she has to talk

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... paid for. Okay, going to GERMANY in three hours!! I LOVE MIT!! WOOHOO ... want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  I wake up with a jolt. In middle school, I used to have a recurring ... day at school only to realize I forgot to do a major assignment. I’d wake up tired and disoriented, briefly unable to discern dreams from

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  train, used to and, to some extent, continues to play an important role in ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... Mississippi. Among all the Amtrak trains I’ve experienced, three stand out to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  'm excited. I'm nervous. Most importantly, though, I'm happy to see how far I ... burst onto the stage to welcome everyone to the [annotation note ... happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  I'm forgetful when it comes to packing. Thanksgiving break, I forgot to pack extra pants. When I went home for my birthday, I remembered my ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  ?" etc etc) I've gotten more exposure to politics than I ever had in my life. This is the first year I've been old enough to actually vote, and though I realized there were other ways to get involved without actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  enlightenment from the generations gone by, ready to fill eager young minds with ... away. I write to you now from Frankfurt, Germany, with the title of “MIT ... transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  ="105765" /] I'm not quite sure when it happened, but if I had to guess it was ... undoubtedly procrastinating far more important matters—   "If we ... visit that corner of my mind, letting our brainchild buoy me back to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose, much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and stupid sportswriters continue to laud players who play through injury. What we celebrate, and whom we praise as heroes, becomes what we want to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... AAS business sessions in order to pass resolutions and make decisions on ... lot of useful information and gained insight as to how we can improve

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  we do not have enough information. While it is important to file your Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials received after that date are accepted and will catch up to your file. Around

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Truth About Science comic-style.

  

  then, haha) My experiments are working! And as a result, I'm about to spend a significant portion of the next 72 hours taking full advantage of ... about the realities of science. I've edited out expletives, in order to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  need to check in for my flight home in six hours. My one-week-old brass ... my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on ... 's 150th was a pretty neat event to cover: Check out these three articles

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011