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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  Chris, have you never seen Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?? The ulimate ... because they were similar. Yes I have READ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ... you don't see your question or if you have another one, feel free to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical ... nothing wrong with dropping a class. Or two. Or three. It is important to ... apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  . Systems to guide my life, my habits, my routine, my lifestyle, my decisions ... To set the mood: You and me - shallou   Looking back 2018 was an incredible, incredible year. I learned to be comfortable with being

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  ever since I'd spent 11 hours seated next to an overly large man with a ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... happened the moment when I got off the limousine bus from the airport to go

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  hours to sand, prime, paint, and assemble our toy. We definitely didn ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound ... blasters connected to a backpack which served as a massive ammo hopper

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the ... 's important to me -- family, friends, health, happiness, and avoiding

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  ="defined as most listened to"]Favorite[/annotation] artist / Hours listened to ... to them / Top song by them: BTS / 45 hours / "Boy with Luv ft. Halsey ... Nomad Favorite artist / Hours listened to them / Top song by them

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  in chromosome 5, leading to an extension of the circadian period from ~24 hours to a little over 25 hours. To express this mutation ... to produce a generation of offspring with random point mutations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... ’re looking to start keeping a little notebook or everything and have no idea where to start, feel free to use this as inspiration. [caption id

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  student here, learning how to think is still the most important thing anyone ... 's something to write about on a very cold rainy day, and b) I have some really ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on ... thing from "Hitchhiker's Guide" series Date: May(?) 2005 (opening day of "Hitchhiker's Guide" movie Group: James Tetazoo, I think Picture 4: Location

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  situation or is able to offer relevant advice or at the very least just guide ... , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Being the “Dumb” Friend and the freedom from comparison

  

  I’m set to learn next year. Perhaps even more importantly, they have ... magnitudes. I’m starting to repeat myself here, but the number of hours I ... every hour spent on topology would be an hour less to spend with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  hard, make all the cheatsheets, do the practice tests, go to office hours ... important to me. Writing is literally how I process the world as I see it ... while you guys. I'm happy to report that I'm alive and I'm actually doing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  or a friend. Speaking of TAs, office hours are a great opportunity to ... state trumps 3 hours of distracted studying, so I try my best to set ... try to go to office hours, email a TA, ask a friend, or ask on Piazza

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  unfolds because uncertainty is scary and it is valid to want to guide how ... then what to feel  with every shard of grief,  and every speck of ... easy to justify happiness for being happy but not sorrow for being sad. i

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... is probably not the most important thing I’ve gained by coming to MIT ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  hour to thaw. Alternatively, rinse the tilapia in warm water (still in ... hour, the beets and carrots should be easy to poke with a fork and soft ... recipes on the admissions blogs: The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For ... , 12 unit-hours mean 24 to 31 real hours per week. Since Course 16

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015