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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  only two days to make my choice. Thinking back to those 48 hours, when I ... professor's office hours, I began to ask more questions during my recitations ... to be smart, adaptive, and (most importantly) willing to work

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out ... warm fifteen minute walk. i tap my id at the elevator and take it to the

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to ... Hello (again) World! My goal to blog once a week has sadly failed ... unfamiliar with the terminology: hosed- (adj): to be completely and utterly

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  : Another Earth Of Gods and Men A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ... the movie (and keep the movie under 2 hours. Nolan knows how to exercise ... . I do love the Back to the Future trilogy, Primer (best, best, BEST

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  member" of MIT-EMS, you're required to staff the ambulance for 49 hours ... hours and you get to choose your session) each semester. You're only ... the 49 hours works out to about a shift every other week, and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  code took 15-20 minutes, so I essentially had three tries every hour to ... tired, I found it in me to read for an hour. And with that, I concluded my ... I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  since it seemed low-commitment and beneficial, so I decided to join. I used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... "rewirements," or wellness activities designed to help you build more healthy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  teaches you how to identify important problems and what types of problems ... ) and petitioned for it to satisfy my 9.01 requirement. It's important to ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  Hiii, Audrey C. ‘24 here! I’m briefly infiltrating the blogs to talk ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply to THINK! It’s different from most other high school research

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  opposed to hours.  Here's the final design of my 2 robots: May ... hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  the Institute’s hallways without escort or a limit to visiting hours ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  an hour in the rain to queue outside of the [annotation note="a really ... sadly in my wordpress at this current moment, but have not had any time to ... semesters, there would always be work to do, and during some weeks work piled

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! 🦃 Yara has a peath sign on her head!

  

  usually sleep over, and while I attempt to pay off my bajillion hours of ... think it’s important to pause and recognize the good, especially when the ... , and she wanted a cute video to send to the family group chat. So, I put

  • by Hala K. '29
  • November 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  the one where i talk to ameer what is real again?

  

  , in front of me is the Jeremy, behind me is Ariel, DJ to my left, and ... -shaped table with a puzzle on top. Five or more days a week, eight or more hours ... tangibly real, to digitized clusters of pixels on a Zoom call. What is "real

  • by kellen manning
  • April 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the ... dorms with dining halls (McCormick, Baker, Next, and Simmons) have to sign

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... persists for many hours - Inability to keep fluids down - You have a fever or ... and go to sleep. I scrubbed my hands red, showered, and took a two-hour

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  post. Disclaimer: I gave myself exactly one hour to write this post ... once I got back to French House. It lasted an hour. 10pm. My dorm ... OBSERVE? Also, it had now gotten to That Hour Of The Night where my brain

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . (One of the many luxuries of IAP is to be able to spend hours just ... finished pieces in the end, in order to improve as a potter, it’s important ... hours a week. Every weekend, I would walk 35 minutes or so past Fenway, a

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  ? When was it supposed to start?” “Half an hour ago,” said the other. They ... important to me than intelligent or likely to succeed. I've learned that friends and family are much, much more important to me than grades or money

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012