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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  amount of sleep before my body revolts at me for being off schedule. A ... , but I’ve never tooled through the night without sleeping for a ... weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  reiterate: LA is not a city made for walking. like, in any sense ... after the fireworks happen, so we walked around for a bit and waited for ... missing functionality in a lot of places. for example, i live right in the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  Following up on JKim's entry about excitement for the unveiling of the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT officially gathers three times -- once, at the beginning, for the freshman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  And we bring you more sketch! Watch . . . us

  

  This is what happens when we hook up a webcam to the server in our floor lounge. Say hi!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alaska Where I am right now.

  

  I have decided that today I will operate under the assumption that I am in Alaska. Not because it's cold or anything, just because it's a change of pace. Your thoughts on Alaska are welcomed.

  • by Snively '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  every couple of years for important family events) for a traditional ... football game, and after we've digested a bit, we head outside for a family ... !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  A week and a day ago, roughly 7:30 pm: Me: Hi Mom! Sorry I haven’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... juice in a week and a half. I haven’t really slept in a while. Mom: Sleep

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To a mouse (or nineteen) A eulogy for my UROP mice... in the form of me explaining my UROP.

  

  nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! This entry is a eulogy for my ... receptors, which suggests that it's important for maintaining the strength of ... for a clear one (or remove it altogether) and see if the mouse still

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  , view the passerby as a person who is waiting for you to speak to him.” I think it’s also a great set of steps for how to socialize and discover new ... exchanged a word, is ripe for a future connection. By deviating from your

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like this today: 9:30 - 11 am: Thermal Fluids Engineering 2 11 am - 12:30 pm: Design and Manufacturing 1 12:30 - 2 pm: Tissue Engineering for Analysis

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... summaries at three a.m., since I am much too soft-hearted to watch horror for ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... /no record was a great opportunity for me to experiment with my studying habits ... . ****: Sophomore standing means, for all intents and purposes, that I’m a sophomore

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  strengthening technique that would make bamboo a better building material for monsoon prone areas. • A technique for recycling glass bottles and plastic ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... (unconventional for a hackathon--but this was a "hardware hackathon," so exceptions ... selected us for a big two-minute (and fairly sleepy) final presentation, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  Airbnb had checkout at 11am, which for those of us who were up at 4am was a ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the ... this year, Kano suggested we have a blogger retreat this semester. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Thanksgiving. The MIT pistol team has a reputation for not only being very good ... bless it with a single perfect shot. That's love for ya right there ... deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  FPOPs, chances for freshmen to dabble in a huge variety of subject and ... first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  . That’s why we have CourseRoad – a website for planning what classes to ... pretty thorough, it leaves out a few important details of MIT’s graduation ... . A few classes count for 18 (or more) units, but those are usually

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever ... Trinity. Rock, Paper, Scissors. The Plastics. And for Simmons Hall, our three elevators, Alevator, Belevator, and Celevator, each named for the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025