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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early ... Challenge. The high school I'm working at is 100% Navajo, and has a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... bed, and this is what I saw: Very pretty, isn't it? =) Now that I was ... story. A really long story. So since C3 is halfway between C2 and C4, so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  deferred applicants, I thought I should post a quick Q&A about what to do ... . What should I do now? Should I send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete the Midyear Report, which will be

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  a dorm has a ball pit, I need to stay in it, because it is ... a funny story that I'll share shortly). So, from the beginning: I ... was actually seeing people in person that I've been seeing online

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  hurts. that pain has a name, and it is loneliness. i've been thinking ... had lots of things i was looking forward to in the fall. that last post, i (don't) want the summer to end was, in my mind, the post that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  floor because our router is in the basement. i wonder if i should do the ... offer at tulip, a start-up in somerville"][/annotation] that i eventually ... advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  thoughts and feelings that exist in the MIT bubble. It's a little long but I ... -watching is leaving Netflix on June 1 and I have finals :( Sushi in maseeh ... :( Parents/professors assuming that if I don’t do well it’s because I didn

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  questions: "What is the dark stuff?" and "How do you think about such a ... decisions are mailed, remember that we live in a beautiful world. "The world ... Yesterday, I wrote, "I'll be back in the office tomorrow, assisting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  barely more than nothing a second thought. I found in Cape Town that there ... 11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an ... the legislature that was being put in place to mend a post apartheid

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  bean and garlic sauce. It is amazing. It will last me a week, because I ... 't cook to save my life. I was dead set on living in a dorm with a dining hall solely because I was really just that bad in the kitchen. Well, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... .” Abby and I stand in awe. What is this “fall clothing,” and do we need it

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  back. I slide in across from him, next to a blond guy with limbs that ... Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Here’s a Plan let's burn off the pi(e)

  

  weather is conducive for an outside jog, I highly recommend morning runs in ... take it at your pace. I'd ideally do yoga after my morning jog as a ... doing stuff in a group (with strangers who don’t know you’re a ticking

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • March 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  I’ll have a bad ending. If I need help, all I have to do is ask ... ). This year I learned that rivers can freeze and that molasses is a deadly ... In my first month at MIT, I: Caught COVID, then a cold, then strep

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  New Things I’ve Tried mostly experimenting with some looks:)

  

  already like art and painting, so makeup is a natural extension of that. I ... decent length [annotation note=" I think in my heart I know that it's a ... hair was moisturized and remained that way for the whole week I had it in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • January 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate ... , inevitably, if I put out a shoddy paper, even if it is just a work in progress ... well with a group in the same way that I did with my high school friends

  • by Phi A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  Arial's R has a diagonal leg. That means that this sign's body text is in ... , Franklin Gothic is a grotesque font, a font classification that describes, I ... mention Century Gothic, a Windows font that I cannot stand in long passages

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  well, well look who's inside again

  

  persona I put forward on the blogs is, well, just that. A persona. Do I ... cw: suicide ment in lyrics if you'd had told me a year ago that i ... whatever. Dancing, singing, playing games. In a way, it's no surprise that I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  satisfy the rare intersection of (a) producing coffee good enough that I ... journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... turns out using NTFS partitions messes with file permissions in a way that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  Minor (which to my ear has no direction whatsoever) is a bit much. I do ... history, and I'm glad that it gets played regularly instead of stuffed in a ... are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013