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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  like fifteen hours of the game to get over that and acknowledge his ... played it for like 20 hours in the 4 days that I was supposed to be packing ... rigorous for my burned out summer brain. I guess what I'm trying to say is I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  it to the blogs. Robert is passionate about web design and development ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their ... brainstorming: First, we design how this calculator is going to work, Then

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  hours and 57 minutes this time, so I have plenty of time to get to class ... I wake up at 6:07am to my alarm clock, which squirts water at me ... application to a “Clown College” on CommonApp. Perhaps those car insurance

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  several ways: it's small, relatively far from MIT (I walked about an hour to ... If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  "Doc" Edgerton invented high-speed stroboscopic photography, and to this ... , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  freshman year, but only just got around to taking it since it was hard to ... committed to taking it since it's just as great as I expected, and I'm super excited to have the opportunity to create choreography in an academic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  to take that seriously too, and then i’ll spend a few dozen hours ... weekend was my last ever cpw, so i decided to revisit some of the same ... minutes later were so perfect, and that was when i knew i wanted to join the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  is three hours long and stays fairly faithful to its source material ... . The 6+ hour exam was scheduled for Friday, January 22nd, so I spent the three weeks leading up to that date poring over a complete set of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  on the table for about two hours to thaw, allowing the water to drain ... its plastic wrapping for four hours or so to defrost. Alternatively ... ) Steps: Leave the frozen hamburgers on a plate for a few hours to thaw

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... Reckoning. It wasn’t really like that. We spent FOUR HOURS in our committee ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  event that allows you- at absolutely no charge- to showcase your ability to gracefully flail on the ice rink, while dressed up as your favorite ... paste on setting: Friday. After 4 hours, at 11:59, quickly sprinkle in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  . And then, I’ll try to work like I normally would, stopping for an hour ... situation at MIT. He’d already heard (it’s hard not to be constantly plugged in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  another three hours to writing a story—Dionysus, about a conflicted girl in ... went to bed around seven, slept for five hours, then headed to my writing ... I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano, “always” being a brief

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  Whenever I try to think about the last year, it doesn't feel real. In ... , because it's just so sad and generally emotionally taxing to think about ... comparison to the spring. And incredibly real, to the point where I'm just so

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  an effort this break to try to move a little. Since we don’t like most forms of exercise and used to go on walks with our mom frequently, changing those walks to speed-walks was a fairly simple transition. Most of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  to wake up two and a half hours earlier than usual without collapsing ... -day. Friday, on the other hand, somehow finds a way to wedge itself between ... -face-is-melting-from-lack-of-sleep exhaustion. I like to dabble in the ancient and storied art of The Doodle, so

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  such a big family. (5) Exhaustion - I've had to endure three 14-hour ... I blogged, I was on a train from Darmstadt to Salem; since then, I ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  of free time to socialize, relax, and simply enjoy everything that makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008