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  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... semester. Over the next five days, I put in 50+ hours of solid, sweat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  issues like these, but I think one of the most important things is to ... good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  allowance" to incoming students, I decided to apply that money to a new laptop. I got my old laptop when I came to MIT (although, really, "laptop" is ... equipment), and let's just say that the past four years were not kind to it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  think it's important to recognize this. There are some truly beautiful entries here. So that's the motivation behind this entry: to repost some of ... translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  take-off in Boston to touch-down in Quebec City was around 5 ½ hours ... :30. We caught a half-hour bus ride to La Chute de Montmorency, a waterfall ... This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had another hour or so to ask her questions. She told us how to get good at ... seemed to be a consensus among a bunch of people I talked to that this was

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  coming if it thinks giving me four days off will be sufficient bribe to ... to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , it's a nice break from everything- to spend a few hours a week working ... . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... half hour their voices floated in from the kitchen. “—and then Mrs. Essix ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  harder than it looks. :) Each unit is supposed to be equivalent to one hour ... this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... they make no sense to anyone who's not here, I decided to ramble at some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  tabs open on my phone to see if such a post would be worth doing. it was ... > weather," that I got it down to about 1300, which is still pretty bad. then, I just decided to write about the most recent (I think?) 105 tabs open

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT was. Conversations with current students led me to believe that MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  , which is important because you have to write a thesis to graduate ... breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to climate change, from plate tectonics to exoplanets. Our department is housed

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ’re solving problems. We have to realize our important similarities and ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  -considered posts I've been meaning to write, but, like Phoebe, I'm a bit hosed right now, and I don't have the time or headspace to write them. But, like I tell our bloggers, not every blog post needs to aspire to being among the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  Full disclosure: Regarding the tagline: I have no idea how to write an ode. To be totally honest, I'm not even really sure what an ode is. I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  myself. But I also want to see her happiness–when she tastes the hours I ... “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ‘Live to Eat,’ where would you rate yourself?” The question was asked at

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  , but also by the important-to-me realization I had during the semester I ... In my dorm, East Campus, residents are allowed to paint the door to their room. Unlike murals on the walls, which generally have to be

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  wonderful opportunity to focus on something important to you. Take Samantha ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  wonderful opportunity to focus on something important to you. Take Samantha ... As I do each year about this time, I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007