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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  weekend of February was the ESP retreat, where we drove up to New Hampshire ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this ... ’ll continue my theme of talking about my problems in public, and I’ll walk you

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  words of congratulations and praise from our new favorite astronaut, the ... It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of Jony Ive's breathless product launches, complete with pictures of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Devoid of Content Well, mostly.

  

  This post is almost entirely devoid of content except to point out a particularly funny exchange in the comments of a recent post. It's a constant ... commenting is acceptable behavior or not. I'm guilty of being one of those

  • by Snively '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... , at least in spirit, as soon as we were kicked out of our dorms. But I ... My first year at MIT has officially ended!! That's crazy!! Spring

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of ... at the end of the exam), but still passed. And like clockwork, the chem ... take the midterm today in two hours and 19 minutes, as of the moment I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I ... is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was called: "Sin No Mbre". Puzzled, I stared at it: "Sin No Mbre" Now I don

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.

  

  sheep, at least one side of which is black." So today I came home and ... least two books that are elements of this library system. 3. At least two ... DID YOU KNOW? The combined weight of all the termites in the world is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  terrible inside joke for people who went to MIT at the time of Spring ... It's the time of year when the blogs get a little wistful. I attribute it to a few factors. The sun goes down at 4 pm. It's cold, so you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  solid month. At the end of it, I admitted defeat: like a bear who has ... down. So as a bit of a cop-out and hopefully a new jumpstart, this blog ... had laughed at my lack of loom bands, the little games I played with my

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I ... always had eggs before a big exam. It's become one of my pre-exam routines. I missed dining hours this morning so I'm at Anna's Taqueria because I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... in table groups, and reflected on some of the capabilities that define ... thoughts We created a fleet of Lego aircraft as part of a simulation based

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything which I’ve read at least ... . as cj commented on shuli’s post introducing the new set of bloggers, i ... some essay advice from the bloggers of yore and a few words from me

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  experience a lot of stress and snap at people you care about and wonder what in ... , i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... thursday evening section of CMS.307 coincided with a 6.867 exam, so i had to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making up for it by putting tons of effort into this much-anticipated virtual tour of Burton-Conner. Seriously. I took literally about 70 pictures of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Another post from Marilee A note from Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  "Whaaat? The letters were postmarked when?" by Marilee Jones, Dean of Admissions at MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The decisions are in the mail They're on their way...

  

  The postman departs with the last of the decision letters, at 1:52pm EST.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  Throughout high school and my first two years of college, I extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... manually. I imagine some amount of sorting could be accomplished with a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  App – and our application is only available at MyMIT. Here are a ... clippings. But, if there are other pieces of scannable information that you ... create your new MyMIT account and begin your application until early

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014