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• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  seven classes, got sick for a month, and pulled too many all-nighters to ... ’t manage to rest enough when I got sick, and I felt weak for much of October ... the layer of fat that lies between skin and muscle. That would make this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  for the Institvte, which explains its high ceilings and open spaces ... and the servers in this photo? They're there for cooling: cold air comes ... failure rate and a very high storage density, so they're really useful for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  is important and what you would like for a reader to know. Student: Oh ... My entire professional life has revolved around education and college ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A ... between moments of feeling really close and really far away from my roots and culture. But for the most part, being away from family and home, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  , and all the parallels between her and her father, set up as camera ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to ... on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  wandering, and i am grateful to stoicism for providing that   iii. one ... between persuasive writing and biased expository writing - it’s easy to ... scalable systems for outreach and projection. and maybe that also means

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  mechanical pencil, and the ensuing distraction becomes a euphemism for ... the Porter Room in sweat and pride, awe and admiration, and guilt for ... Life has been sprinting by these days, and I go through periodic

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  that "colleges are looking for." Absurd. And supposedly the girl is a ... Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in ... subjects like UROP and Arts. I am SO excited to roll out the new layout and

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  commute between the commuter rail station and my summer internship office ... the elevator to crawl between the platform and the station. I consider ... on a gravel footpath between the station and my office. I have to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  , and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for club meetings, having dinner at my fraternity, playing Brawl, and ... ...emotionally, socially, academically; as a friend, as a student researcher, and as a human

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  Media, and the universe it comes from. I deeply respect Chelsea for ... joint major is between comparative media studies (CMS) and course 6 ... producing stuff for social media—and “stuff” is all kinds of stuff. The first

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  up my whole life plan and going for a Ph. D. literature, like the woman ... Gucci to task for suing Dapper Dan out of business and then snatching up ... grated about ten pounds of cheese for macaroni and brewed rosewater

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  the senior mindset gnothi seauton

  

  's best for me, I can and should ignore them. I know when I don't know ... !) Now that I know that, I do what's right for me, and I like it, and I don ... I don't. (And damned if that isn't on every advice post for freshmen

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  from the library and is probably trying to make a shelter for the local ... in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... the seven supervisors. Sorry for the long delay between posts, I hope to ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  ran for the next week or so and then stopped because it was allergy ... waited for the right day, and in the middle of a snowstorm in early May, went for it. And although I was really proud that I had done it, it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  of using my entire skill set instead of choosing between STEM and ... on free food and branded merchandise for members.” Taking non ... didn’t prove, and we were expected to use those theorems for rote

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am ... Medical Center in the morning and from TMC to MIT’s campus for my afternoon ... minutes between each train that passes through and there are usually a few

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... metaphor for the support that friends and family provide in one’s life - they ... games for fun - and now there's a non-trivial chance that I might make

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

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  moved up so it fits neatly between CPW and my 2.006 test. This, in ... The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009