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  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  , four or five hours in a row. And everything feels interesting, and good ... . Sometimes I feel like lightning strikes me and I get a project done in three ... is impossible; I’m lucky enough to have never experienced this. In

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  education from MIT is like… Witty quips living in a state of dreaming ... Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a ... subject of a famous hack in 1991, where hackers hooked up a fire hydrant to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  corridor in the world, the Infinite is occasionally treated as a highway ... it's really hosing" or even "I'm doing a UROP in Course 7" don't mean ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of ... start a jar of lacto-fermented sauerkraut. In Italy, in an overcast ... as difficult as I expected, and high school is high school even in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  yeast smelled like, so I stuck my nose in the container and took a big whiff. Do not try this at home. It smells bad in a way that I cannot even ... everybody in the lab is at the annual Picower Institute retreat on Cape Cod

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place. Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  east parallel. In a window on the second floor, behind the man standing ... while he vivaciously reads a testimony to the salvation he finds in God. It is the night before Easter. We are in the in-between, says another

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  function is It’s like a differentiable function, but in the complex plane ... . Incidentally, there are a lot of great concerts happening in Boston this week, so ... : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively ... Journal communities. I get dressed in my MIT Cheer shirt with a really cheerleadery ... best part of waking up is 92 mg. of caffeine in your bloodstream! (I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  the smoot is as follows: in 1958, Oliver Smoot, a fledgeling fraternity ... even worcester and providence in rhode island. colloquially, this is ... confusing"]Boston[/annotation] is a relatively small city, I have spent a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  History major is in this category). This probably gives you a sense of my ... your chances at a top medical school*. There is a "MIT Effect" in the ... in Boston.'" I never thought about it, but if you must press me for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to ... , increases the conductivity of the plasma. A lower voltage is required in this ... , observing in a local high school classroom, interviewing for cool jobs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  Express, I'm in short sleeves. A few minutes ago, I got up to stretch my ... -East-Campus-all-the-time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the ... . It is the second-oldest dormitory after Senior House, which opened in

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... Claire S. '25 is a Computation & Cognition (6-9) major from ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  :( Studying in Cambridge is a great experience. On the top of my favorite-things-in ... spending a year in Cambridge is traveling around the UK and continental ... rising senior *letting out a little scream in my head*. After a year

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHg50mdODFM of course, steven universe is a cartoon show and the lyrics ... take a moment and ask yourself if this is how we fall apart? but it

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  is a village in Kaffa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. I went there several times ... . Muti also has a water problem. All the water in Muti is delivered through ... our family history, which is still sitting in my Google Drive somewhere

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  finger in both pictures? Iron Man with a Brass Rat! Having Iron Man, a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie ... industrialist and head of Stark Industries, and Maria Stark. Tony is a boy genius

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty video.  It's been a crazy 101 days since I last posted in this corner of ... be many more somethings in the near future, now that there's a little

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015