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• Blog / Challenges

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ground this Valentine’s Day (though of course, love is in the air). These ... time to sit back and reflect and then put it all into words in a way that ... questions in education are to me. I’m still in a cappella. I still really like

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  in rapid succession. Everyone involved in running it is a volunteer ... , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  to conversation. A Graybill is a unit of harem. The Itani is a unit of negative tact.  A Snively is equal to 1 byte wasted on the internet. Friends ... due to the double factorial) Eran Ergozy = "How fun it is to work at a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Change A few lessons I have learned

  

  ironed blue slacks, and a brown belt tucking in a semi-buttoned pink and ... in tone as I approached the cash register. His moving from a soft and ... shift in tone, this "code switching" as you will be told, as a regional

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 31, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  with my professors and friends, but I found a home and a second family in Random Hall. Each dorm at MIT has a personality, and I think ours is at ... a year ago and it is equally true now. Specifically, I want to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  is to be a free rider and not put in anything—bar the punishment, of ... course, this is difficult and a poor guess could result in a steep loss, so ... most money in this game gets a star. Conceptually, this game is a lot

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on-campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed ... boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  catch myself in it. A classic “Ana-ism” is saying something like “Oh, I ... justifying, accepting, or promoting it. As in, I don’t think “work harder” is a ... applied to do Interphase EDGE, which is a 2-year enrichment program. The

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  As someone who is notably not a millionaire, I started working in ... semester, or at least more socially acceptable in a sense. Instead of having ... with is difficult, especially if you have a mid-semester major crisis and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... from 5 to 7 pm is spent out on a turf field. Nearly every Wednesday is a bus trip to a random liberal arts college somewhere in the Northeast

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to me and said I had a package awaiting me in the secretary’s office. I ... had qualified to the AIME. I was pretty excited, and after a while, in a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... undergraduate programs, and your GPA is just a number. It puts you in a category ... department is not going to admit a student who, in their opinion, cannot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  On Thursday, I sat in front of a camera for an hour (along with ... : that the only official qualification for coming here is a certain level ... looked tired. I think that I nodded. He gave me a hug. I got in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... in their room. This is funny because this continues to be a common ... is a first-year undergraduate named Lakisha Powell ('95). I loved when

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... of doing a Next Haunt run in the past, the shrieks from the basement ... , especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  smoke and spice my comfort meal

  

  ... and everything nice! My favorite dish in the whole wide world is ... , which comes out to around once a month. In times when things were tough, I ... brighten your day. So, what is this dish? Pakaprow is a spicy Thai basil

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 9, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern ... is worth the sacrifice. We start most nights with a demonstration

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  careers, internships, and being a functional human being in the world is ... depression note: This is a personal account on my experience with anxiety and is not a substitute for professional advice. --- Every day we wake up

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022