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• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  thermodynamics[/annotation] because it is one of three (3!) midterms I have on ... there's a constant battle about how everything is going. Minute-to-minute ... that night so I could work on blogging and research Wednesday

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... movement. Pretty artwork and messages can be configured on them. Other people can scramble the puzzles for me. I can do it for a minute or for hours

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  . It took a few extra minutes of talking to Madison on the phone, and ... At 12:20pm, on December 4, 2013, Wednesday,  I had absolutely no idea ... thirty minutes away from Alewife, and the little journey began. All four of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  release of Early Action decisions, we aren't allowed to blog on Saturday or Sunday. It is now 11:04pm on Friday. I therefore have 56 minutes to open a ... on gloves, and called up a friend who I haven't seen in months, because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  On New Year’s Day, I got a tattoo of a saguaro. Saguaros are massive ... parlors in Tucson was open, probably to cash in on the stream of people getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW ... patterns and scant on plans. A pattern, in the canonical architecture and ... on the sides can be lifeless and blank, or it can be the liveliest part

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , blue to yellow, etc*. This seemed to depend on the shade of the original ... how your eyes are wired. Instead, your eyes see brightness on a ... . Between 40 and 41? 82 and 83? Not so much. You might argue that the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  got faux-philosophical. On the final night, amid last-minute yearbook ... we call LN2. For campers, LN2 starts and ends on Saturday, which is ... , the JC I worked on LN2 with, and I would take inventories of plastic

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  time as you need to process. Here are a few of my favorite YouTube

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  represented so movingly on stage. It worked. I had added something positive to ... , measurable impact on the world is slim to none, but each of us must have a ... rather naïve view of human nature on the surface, but I think it is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  three blankets on the floor. A few weeks ago, I had to choose whether to ... Amazon mattress delivered on 9/3, and I'd just sleep on an air mattress ... Boston on 9/1, I didn't anything to sleep on. A combination of friends

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01 ... "what are my chances" questions. I simply can't answer them on a case ... figure it out on your own.) ------------------------------------- Romola

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  . Plus, my mom ordered them on the internet, where anyone can say whatever ... it’s real silk, Andi, why would anyone on the internet lie to you ... stretching, which silk has (on the green part of the structure) but polyester

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  . the top two for top artist minutes listened are on the lower end here ... always been on top. slay fatima did a lot of listening to TSwift this ... Spotify usage, I guess...I'm on Spotify more than any social media, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  graduation where all the seniors stay on campus and do fun events"]senior week ... committee. Last party, on the last day of classes. Last time linking arms to ... a little teary as we linked arms. On my last night in EC, more than

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... Ok so I am very late jumping on the Trader Joe's bandwagon, but I ... 't crazy and would take the MIT SafeRide OnDemand shuttle service (which was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  ’ve been here both for only a week and for years. On the last day of classes ... memory-saturated period I’ve spent on campus brings me to wonder how much I ... high school clubs for the sake of involvement. I’ve learned to focus on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  two 20-minute presentations on recent papers from the field at the end ... week), but then again that estimate is based on an average of student ... spend more time than the average MIT student working on things, so it

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  for their last exams, and suddenly my room was packed and i was on a ... -night conversations, and reflect on the things they've learned. and my hall, fifth west ... them, putting them in picture frames or pinning them on the wall. working

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... . After all, when Tim Cook wants something on his desk in three hours ... sardonically put it, "Congratulations on being a professional workaholic." But

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015