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  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  -7). 1 Corinthians = 7th book of the new testament. 13th chapter =7 + (5 ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  large enough to take over a whole row of tables at meals. -- Like at ... really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  waking up. At 7:30, I frowzily rolled out of bed, realized that this isn ... healthy, refreshing four-hours of extra-lite sleep the night before, so at 7 ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  the shuttle and when it will pick you up. You spend a lot of time at the ... . That’s what’s up. At the end of the day, just remember folks: “It ... wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  when they threw yet another curveball at me, this time in the form of a fancy new piece of equipment – a so-called pineapple mould. [caption id ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  hyperventilated a bit. At 9:10, they called me in. I was ushered through a set of ... In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... GOODNESS!" At some point, our director told us that he assigned roles based

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  , I have to get at least 6 hours of sleep the night before. If I get 5 ... amounts of healthier food. If you always get hungry at midnight, consider ... bars or whatever to class. Drink lots of water, especially late at night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  glass. And let’s make the pumpkin colourful! Roll the new layer of glass ... glassblowing classes at MIT are about ten times cheaper than similar classes ... " align="alignright" width="300"] Concept art of a glassblowing gremlin

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  having a great time exploring a new city. I felt tired at the end of it all ... to August, and I’m about to start at the Zoom Institute of Technology ... last couple of years in high school, I was in a near-constant state of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  of my time at MIT nearly enough. During the school year, the only ... "]discover[/annotation] new places now. Here are some of my favorites! Brookline Lunch A ... corner of the Porter Exchange building. It's very unassuming at first

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  exciting, good kind of way). Here’s what I’ve got in my final (!) semester at ... I’ve never really understood the appeal of beach vacations. I spend a day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme ... at the end. 8 Number of teams the class is divided into. 24.9 The ... surrounding area shot using a drone. They played this at the beginning of the

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... MA quite long enough :) I've had my share of driving mishaps, but ... ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  since I’ve been at MIT, I’ve felt like I’ve been really on top of ... and professor at MIT,[/annotation] and I lamented about my fears for the future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  . This new group hosts a monthly forum in which attendees discuss issues of ... vaguely political ambiguity of the previous sentences and would rather just ... open to all MIT students regardless of identity. How did you find out

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  eyebrows at me when I told them that I ran as “a meditation on the utility of ... week. And going for three hour walks at midnight in the middle of the ... could do all of my hobbies on the side, but you can’t do that here. Or at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  one of my favorite classes at MIT. I will likely write an entire post ... sleeplessness. I hate the nagging desire to escape MIT at the end of the week. I ... commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  instructor Mike Conti. Of the ten years he's taught shooting at MIT, this is ... pellet at a time. Not only was this a limitation of the pistol itself, but ... loaded one pellet at a time. We talked about the parts of the pistol

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020