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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  schedule. Oh, I'm not Jewish. My sophomore year they called me up on my ... . I don't remember whether or not this was the same one where we were ... entry. Really, I can't think of any student organization at MIT that works

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College ... cases, not because they have magical properties. If you can otherwise ... graduating class is not going to hurt you. Ben's entry made me smile because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  bases running around, though not necessarily in the same living groups ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply ... and left all the others blank. In line with the Hall Rush policy of not

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class ... person works, too. I think professors are often under-utilized -- at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the ... because I had to, not because I wanted to. Eventually I get a call from my ... was not an enthused as I had hoped. "Kayode, you can't run to the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  Cooperative Society” (notably not?? an acronym)"]COOP[/annotation] close ... , not Harvard"]Harvard Bridge[/annotation] and continue onwards to Trader ... , ghost pepper chips that were not at all spicy, and a so-called “British

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... [annotation note="I know, not great, but she made it!"]our 3pm EST meeting was ... ever animated anything. Last, but not least, we learned that Angela hadn

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  airy, and Celeste conveys this through level design, not just new objects or different art. The game's incredibly fluid. I'm not sure I can ... works. And how can you talk about Celeste without talking about its

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  , relationships, personalities, values, etc. that I was not aware of before college ... 'm experiencing so many different aspects of life and then working on assimilating ... story is not unique. Many of my friends at MIT are also on a similar

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  , but it's certainly not the only one with a great story. So I sent a ... may not have much 'deeper meaning', it is still a way to express your ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  `m not back there yet (Boston next Monday!), I have trouble writing about ... up and up (and he gives lots of evidence- I`m not going to tackle this ... `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  true love is History. AP US History was not enough to quench my ... you still think that's not enough - cross-reg at Harvard! I think it ... science freaks and people who rather not see another literary analysis

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets ... :58 AM* "AH CRAPPPP. NOT AGAIN!" *throws TI-89 calculator into pocket and ... , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  room is good for doing work. You can hear a pen drop. And it's pretty ... know the adults that work here, so it's wierd for me to do it. But there ... library that I've used the most, as a Political Science major. Not only is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... actually worked, or why it mattered; or I felt that taking a certain class ... ). [annotation note = "The 'k' is a joke, albeit not a funny one. I was inspired by

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  Pi Day is a big deal at MIT. Not only does it go hand-in-hand with ... festival? Sounds fun! What's happening there? JOHN: I'm actually... not sure ... meter. BEATRICE: Ridiculous! A sphere?? That’s not how fluid dynamics

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  , especially if you are not careful. i was not.  spread sparsely among the logistics are friend meetups and family gatherings—the goodbyes, but not ... -referencing it with how things worked back home. it was pouring when we came back

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  possibilities. I am from radios blaring and pop music, And no, it is not too ... . Most high school creative writing contests focused on poetry, not prose ... you chink or gook, you will not get it. You will not understand why they

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  't posted her igloo post yet... sometimes procrastination works out in your ... get[/caption] Anyway, it’s not even that snowy yet. [note: i wrote this ... community and hang out/support each other in a group. i'm personally not in a

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  : since our comparator works more often than not, we can achieve high ... our 2-number comparator works only 20% of the time -- since by flipping ... comparator that works 80% of the time, which we can use in ALG. Before diving

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017