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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  a second thought to the spaces between letters. We don’t think about ... and day to day obligations became the new norm. A shift of reference ... imparted a sense of weightlessness, probably similar to what a balloon feels

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night ... -weary muscles to give its prefrosh a weekend worth remembering. “The whole nine ... photo of your dog wearing a Jedi costume.) Photos judged to best represent

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can balance out my weaknesses. That is, you need to be able to: 1. Drive like a ... brocade print. The skirt opens at the front to reveal a slightly shorter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  the Esplanade, to a jetty: a piece of wood that sticks out into the Charles, and happens to have a few resident lawnchairs. I curled up in one ... I wrote the majority of this post a week ago, then slept, and lost my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... emails. Just to see what happens. Learn to cook. Even if you're on a ... . Master all the steps to the Cupid Shuffle. You'll be a hit at prom. Go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... to do it at home. That's why I'm here. So, I'm taking a break because I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... , leading to a lot of frosh from warm climates making exclamations like "OMG ... with a friend and her roommate to celebrate her birthday. It was cold and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aquatarkus Why I turned in a half-finished 10.37 problem set.

  

  ! Anyway, so, uh, last Saturday? my floor decided it would be a good idea to ... request a total of $3300 to plan trips with one another. It's a way to ... gets to pretend she's a real pirate for a little bit along with first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  How not to do it. (A dinner from last summer) This is probably the one ... trying a friend's gummy vitamins ended up drastically changing my day to day life. A vitamin a day equated to sleeping easier, less groggy

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... ’s was, the first thing she did was pick a day that we could go to one ... taking a 1.5 hour drive to one (because,well, GPS lies sometimes xD). Along

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

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  backwards to figure out when I would need to finalize a list of pies, select ... Simmons ballpit pie. After that, I was a bit stuck. Should I try to ... , or just focus on a few? To delay the inevitable need to make a decision

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SONIC JUBILANCE A day at the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building at MIT

  

  President Walker, the musical societies will be permitted to place a piano ... . Unfortunately, a year later the orchestra was disbanded due to lack of support ... for a college orchestra. The success of this concert will have much to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • February 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Apple was trying to make its stores seem like a church, a sacred space ... showed, to a degree that can never be sufficiently told, how much Jobs ... think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a ... intrigue, mysticism, and references to the classics. Is it a little corny ... every now and then he lends me a book to read about the philosophy of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More thoughts on classes However, I did not find Matt's stuff (see blog post below this one).

  

  daily agenda, or even sources of Vitamin C. To start with a simple example ... geekishly fun and downright scary. On one hand, it's hard to complain about a ... radiate? The thing spews out enough math to educate a third-world village

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  (gender and media studies), for which i got to write a final paper about the ... fall; that class introduced to me a bunch of frameworks for thinking ... of being able to write a paper on a chosen topic. the last class i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster ... get back to less busy, but it's hardly a disaster. —And in the end if

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Parting Remarks Ending the same way I began

  

  classes I decided to make this last video just sort of going through how MIT ... , non-scripted, talking for too long videos that I used to make for the class of 2019. So I thought, what better way to end my time at MIT than

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  night after a chapter meeting, they decided they were going to mark the ... Lambda Alpha Chi, the pledges, to repaint it. What started as a funny ... industry and developed a super sick formula to trade derivatives in foreign

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023