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• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... inherent in counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds to 3/14 at 1:59 pm

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  did an incredible job of processing things well beyond the deadline. On ... goes well, you'll know in 2 weeks and 53 minutes. :-) [Edit: to respond

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Course 10 classes with closed-notes pop quizzes that last about 10 minutes ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test ... have a bike. My senior year of high school, I won a bike on Capital Blue

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  triangular furballs, and watching them waddle around made me happy. On Sunday ... minutes longer than Adam would have liked (I can't help it, I have a soft

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  New portlets are coming soon. Not sure how soon, but as soon as I can manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... link to biology content on the OCW site. For students who choose multiple

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  , foods, feelings, smells, and sounds that I reflect back on when I returned ... all around Switzerland on a half-fare travel pass with free train travel ... trips taken on my own, solo-travel Managed all the paperwork and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... officially left my mark on 4 different rooms on Conner 2. Freshman year, April ... walls with them, and it would look sort of like a beach- yellow sand on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  up. Take them for what you will. On Homesickness Everyone is lonely ... parents, or shutting yourself out from all the excitement that's going on ... upperclassmen are up and about on campus, trying to meet all of you and hear your

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  Three days of Manhattan ended on Monday afternoon beneath a dripping ... and breaking like bones on the trash-encrusted sidewalk. Jess Lin and I ... my left kidney on the infallibility of my internal compass. Did you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... top universities in the world. The conference took place on Saturday ... to go but I had a pset due on Saturday and plans to hang out with

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  costume, there’s a forty-minute time limit on how long one person can wear ... -four hours compulsively checking every email alert on my phone until I got the ... putting on the Tim costume. And an application. And a video. In fact, there

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A new semester but if I give you my daily schedule here, what will I fill my Facebook…

  

  Since everyone's doing it, I don't want to miss out on telling you ... class at MIT on my resume. Not bad. Plus it's my favorite professor's last ... learned on Java. (for all you coders out there, let me go ahead and say

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  something that resembled shade. After a breezy but sweaty 45 minutes of ... . Even if you know you only have 90 minutes or less to make a great impression on someone, it is unlikely you would immediately launch into a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  Tuesday...there was a lot going on! Topics of the presentation sessions ... been viewed and absorbed), attention (what people focus on when shown a ... talk session was actually the first one I attended. It was a symposium on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  all her friends on House 4. I've also been spending an embarrassing ... because it's been something that has been on my mind for almost three years ... friends that he trusted. We eventually lived on a floor in New Vassar with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  that went on once I finally got to MIT start at around 5:40!!! To be ... conversation about anything from computers on wheels to gun control. Anyone ... at MIT would be nothing without my input on what it is like to start

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  Friday night I slept for 10 hours and 8 glorious minutes. If you subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my eyelids before I drifted off, it was actually only 10 hours and 4 minutes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  Yesterday morning, something odd appeared on MIT's campus... It was ... hacks that result are admired by pretty much everyone on campus. This ... founded in 1958 and began operations on October 1 of that year. Naturally

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... , but my milk was in a fridge on Conner 4 (along with my eggs, apple juice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005