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• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  understand quantum field theory.” Good news: another hour has just been added to every 24-hour day. How do   you use those extra sixty minutes? Sleep, obviously. What do you do to punt, de-stress, or reset, on or off the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  anniversary, and all sorts of cool installations appeared on campus. Jenny shared a few pictures with you guys in her entry, but I'm adding a few of my own to the collection: Thousands of people showed up on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  have a question and I hope you can give my your insight on it.. I'm going ... the highest averages got into the A.P classes. On the other hand, I will ... school either. Can you please tell me your perspective on this whole thing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  different squares that you might land on–some are “payday” squares, some are ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each ... importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  ="attachment_100684" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Behold.[/caption] Although the ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] Behold (x5).[/caption] Five times the triangles, five times ... controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  the horizon, I’d embark on a long bike ride over to the complete ... (who focused on gesture drawing), Afeefah (who shared their favorite pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  and began following a YouTube video on how to draw fruit with pastels ... friends, the list goes on. And yet, with all these achievements and friends ... yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims ... maybe we were spending a little too much time hyper-focused on the parts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  gladly consume the entire holiday bestsellers list on Amazon, or, even ... of 11:35 AM, 12/18/08 AD, I've officially, definitively, unequivocally ... 't an expression that can be safely applied when you sleep on the top bunk

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

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College ... movies on a cold, dark Halloween night. Anna: Now, picture this: Cam and I ... store. The headlights fell on a cute little kitty who jumped off the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  Course on YouTube saved my life in AP Biology--I even watched a couple of ... to pretty much anything, so if you’re still doing some last-minute ... school, and my mother and I spent even more hours on even more Saturdays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly ... impact on me when i was reading it, not only because it helped me realize ... relate with him on some fucked up level. this would then repeat again when

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  inability to focus on Zoom classes lasting longer than 50 minutes. So, 14 ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially ... details on my classes & UROP & life as a second-semester senior. 14

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap ... on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  -slicked slope. On our way out, we were distracted for a full 20 minutes by Phil ... homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish grey light hung on the ceiling

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  the first of November. The Beatles had already done the whole concert-on ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint liveblog] finding the BALANCE with 2.009 watching the 2.009 annual showcase (with Kayode D. '27)

  

  secure some last minute tickets (and extras!) which means that despite ... up on my typical habits of putting in way too many photos, but in the meantime a girlie can try"]No guarantees on photos for the rest of the night

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hosed life the last few weeks

  

  minute naps between classes. And crash when I get back. Or on the weekends ... on Monday/Tuesday. But the weekend means taking 7-8 hour bus ... conference. That means that I'll have to either pset on the bus/train or not

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  (more on that later!) with our student ID) Someone (it turns out to be ... , and 3) Graduation (maybe 4) Ring Delivery). On Friday night, I peered ... interesting thing to note is that we have 13 people on the Committee, rather

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  reading won’t be about why I took a gap year but, instead, what I did on it ... capture my gap year. I usually warn people that it may take a hot minute ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023