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• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  excites me! I can't believe some of the opportunities MIT students have to ... Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovely readers of the MIT blogs! I promise I haven't been trying to avoid blogging... but the last week of IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  , my mom asked me to make a list of things I wanted to do in California ... . This sort of sentence has been one I've had trouble saying throughout my ... earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  breathlessness of an unforgotten moment. There's an infinity of worlds that I can ... regular basis, or that I would forget the existence of misery in the world ... imagined that in the midst of relentless intellectual challenges, I would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... I can't sleep when I need to sleep in the furniture I need to sleep in ... Listening to Music I have the brain of an ape, so I can't read something

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... time I’d ever touched code, and man, were there a lot of TypeError: 'list ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  job site in Needham, where I catch one of three trains between the hours ... like your job (as I do), it can feel like an inconvenient stretch of time ... This summer, I'm working part-time at the Division of Student Life

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... math problem that I was capable of doing in the tenth grade. These were ... large list of things that I can recall having learned from those classes

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  have translated the history and mission of MIT so students can help their ... Hola! I’m delighted to introduce the newest page to the MIT ... video, featuring members of the Spanish-speaking community at MIT, we are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs ... realsies! In the meanwhile, I'd love to answer any of your questions about ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  crowdsourced online map where members of the community can add pins for different ... MIT dorms"]dormspam.[/annotation] What were some of your motivations in ... and better understand where each of these spaces physically exists, I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  'm caught up in the middle of the problem do i see its magnitude. if i didn ... choice but to let go of the plot myself. i'll make meaning in my life ... having these problems, yet i'm screaming in front of the whole world about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... ' poster of him, and bringing in a hubcap with a heart on it, a teddy bear (I ... . All three of these dorms have spectacular murals, but I wanted to talk

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems ... most stylish professor I've had in my life. Not to mention his academic ... enough to teach an old dog a new trick, I'm sure I can teach you my

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can't sleep in. I don't have any early-morning obligations – I just ... like I'm the only person awake. In reality, around 10% of MIT wakes up ... 'll crash hard in the afternoon."][/annotation]. Last year, I wouldn't ever

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  of irritated I lost so much time, but what can you do? I am pretty sure ... I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long ... and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  . Which is also just about the best thing in the world, now that I think of ... , which is the only, and I mean THE ONLY thing standing in the way of my ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  -and-check? Can’t you just plug in all the permutations of the variables and get the ... difficulty of the class. Since I have limited experience in anything except ... common unit of homework assigned here at MIT. Excellent, in-depth high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from ... obvious to me, and are just matters of personal taste. Why would I study in ... comfortable for me? (This means I spend most of my time in my room.) Why would I

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025