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  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... . Still, though, I’m glad I did it. I learned the limits of how much my ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet ... , I was reading some articles from “The Cut”, a section of New York

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  remember seeing an inordinate number of calculators. You might’ve also ... Associate Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at Olin College. At MIT ... ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... . And I love the creative process of writing, which has been part of my ... of ways, MIT is my adventure. I hope to share it with you :)  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... , appreciation of, and indulgence in our favorite substance to the community.  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I ... + piccolo) below the seat in front of me just the way I was taught by ... of background info: The MIT Concert Band is a student organization, as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  in a very long time. So I heave the pretty incredible stash of lined ... 'm cheating) off my lap, open up notepad, and commence my play-by-play of ... hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team ... . Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers ... thousand-person hackathon?  My friends have gotten sick of me yapping about

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Infinite Magazine [joint post with Kidist A.]

  

  to reframe art, politics, culture, and aesthetics through the lens of ... [annotation note="generally, a spread refers to two facing pages of a magazine that are usually of similar content. in infinite, we expand this

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  ('22) and Wesley Block ('22) on the history of the Institute, spanning from World War 2 to COVID-19. It uses 80 years of AI-enhanced archival ... pinnacle of technological innovation. Exploring several themes and arcs, it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue, 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor ... , already sleeping across from me. Some weeks, it got kind of hot, but we had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  hundreds of MIT students but also thousands of dedicated puzzlers from all ... [annotation note="literally, I got about eight hours of sleep total that weekend ... associated with[annotation note="tetazoo and putz, two floors of east campus

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics ... : There are four types of math major at MIT—pure math, general math, applied ... subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  A lot of people living in the United States don’t understand how complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people ... the calendar, I managed to claim 37 hours of shifts over two weeks, working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015