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• Blog / Challenges

  how i spend my days where my (melodramatic!) summer thoughts have been

  

  “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives" - Annie Dillard *** A 1 PM breakfast, one hour of productive work split across five ... way with my life, too. *** Sometimes I have visions of how I’ll spend my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving ... middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra ... ever watched it. Anyway, no. What I really couldn't help thinking of was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  learned to use the entirety of their feet to varying degrees of ... that mit is slower than the rest of the world, but in the sense that you can optimize walking significantly when armed with basic knowledge of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  enjoyed and gotten a lot out of."]CS degree here.[/annotation] Getting over ... 1 AM, but I've grown too fond of the title to change it :P) I didn ... favorite thing I’ve done at MIT. I got what I wanted to get out of it, and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of ... (not Nate…or his friend…) who was concerned that MIT did not offer any

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  university, but when I visited Caltech, they said that about 80% of the profs can't teach well!! They're brilliant, of course, in research ... , for the record, I don't believe that 80% of Caltech's professors can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric figure, dozing against one of the sandstone pillars with what appears to be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m still reading applications 5 years later...

  

  was something of a blessing. It offered the opportunity to escape the ... steps wide. In the throes of the pandemic, I spent every day inside my ... days by the number of applications read during the Early Action cycle

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  Simmons Hall, we somehow stumbled upon the topic of my blogger bio, to which ... county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I ... to Cambridge, home of actual seasons, Mae's Asian Eatery, and most

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I ... my head. "MIT's music program is like the fugacity of water in a water ... done this weekend instead of studying for finals, exactly? Well, what I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of ... plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... Brewster Kahle '82 (right, courtesy Library of Congress) and the Internet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now ... campus right now. Basically, each freshman has an advisor: a member of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2.97 during IAP of 2011. I am currently more and more involved with classes that ... of the world. On October 6th I went to my second DMB event where The

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  the offer details, and sent me the offer letter to sign. I still kind of ... The end of the semester has come and gone, and although I meant to ... trip to India drained me of all motivation and I basically just sat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019