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• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... whatever this is (a blog post? A stream of consciousness diary entry? The ... this is a good metaphor. It's more like an increasingly simmering volcano

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  No class Fridays, the end. (actually the above screenshot is a lie ... enhancing acoustic quality. 4.502: Design Scripting. A new class, this one is ... . This is a weekly nighttime graduate seminar on 'Responsive Cities' which

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  :) Harry: In a way, everything I am doing now is South-Dakota-related as I am ... .[/annotation] The state is one more thing to have in common with someone, and it is a ... Baum lived there for a while. Fun fact: Kansas in WoO is based on his

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  to Python (6.S189), and it's actually a really fun class.  In the first ... decided immediately to live in a non-meal-plan dorm and cook all my meals ... Over half of IAP is left.  Some stuff I'm looking forward to: a La

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically ... , sustained periods. What's sprinting for us, is a comfortable pace for them. A ... ; ^ a non-metaphorical sprint, from a past weekend in Big Basin.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  for me to read. I found it was a good way to check in with myself ... before I go into it. In short, I worked for a STEM nonprofit and the Biden ... went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding ... Hampshire and Central Massachusetts. This is also a good time ... I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Balloons Literally. One thousand. Like, a one with 3 zeros. One times ten to the third.…

  

  So about a month ago, back when I actually wrote blog entries and stuff, Ruth ‘07 spent a week in New Orleans, so we, her floormates ... in her room and didn't even realize that... a few...had leaked out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  surrounding djent.  Wikipedia says that djent is in fact a genre, specifically ... Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group ... ’s not apparent, this is a joke (well this whole blog is a joke) and music

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  walk inevitably results in a very good story. This long walk is very ... portion of the walk in Middlesex Fells, which is a beautiful nature ... -related crimes."]Fatima.[/annotation] It is comfortable to be in a familiar place

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt ...  MacArthur 'Genius' Grant winner - held a reading of his new book, This is How You Lose ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  see this weird in-between age bracket that is usually absent from campus ... the Biot number is approximately one. Basically, you have a block with a ... 's the bottom line. MIT is still a fantastic school, I love it, and

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  salt. Nevertheless, this post is a big step in the right direction, and ... burning in your mind right now – what exactly is hardness? Merriam ... ].[/caption]A slightly more sophisticated scale is the Vickers hardness scale

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  plans for the next scenes in the novel I was writing. Every few pages is a ... the edits. Today I was… happy? So happy, at times, but in a way that is ... ="71525" image2="71526" /] Jan 6, 2020 8:22 pm I am in a big big plane + it is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  little crazy is a good sign? Or maybe writing it out is therapeutic in a ... A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... what's in here and what has been strategically left out could fill a few

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  There are many like it, but this one is mine. My spork has been high ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Scholarship. And he comes from a place where college just isn't in the cards for ... Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... attain a 98.9 grade point average before graduating second in his class at

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  Harvard and have this distinct memory of sitting in seminar, watching a ... misled by fluff masquerading as insight. A lot of truth is ugly, a lot of ... witness a lot of beauty in the world; I spent a year in New Zealand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  down in a few moments toward the lower world whence he will have to push ... efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is ... of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new ... almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... living with a faulty internet connection, today is the inauguration of 44th

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009