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• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  #help in the The Chaos Table Discord, which is a channel my friend group ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  session, woke up in the evening, had a nice dinner with my friend, and then ... is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... 14.121 homework and studying for a 14.121 final exam that is worth

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video on a loop:   You are in the front yard of your aunt's house

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached under a seat in the second-to-last row and, like magic, out came a ... , and is said to be growing into a small city. Purple mountains shelter us

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed ... shuttle, race a car, finance a project based on limited data in the face of ... us is: It’s better to make a bad decision now than a good one too late

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different ... a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in ... a rage comic. Maybe you will too. And if so, you can join me in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon ... (any % although whole is more manly) 2) You can't vomit I'm the one in ... hard drive today (which has saved my life more than once, invest in one

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  PumpkiNerd Carving My dorm had a pumpkin carving contest, and categories were funniest, scariest, geekiest, most original,…

  

  As I pasted in my previous entry, my dorm had a pumpkin carving ... expression on her face -- she obviously is a fruitarian. (I suppose ... not only carved in "athena%" but also included a cursor. Well, in case

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  long as they were an MIT student. I'm a casual artist who paints once in a blue moon, but my roommate is artsy and paints pretty often, so I ... used a tiny canvas instead of the ones included in the grant. [caption

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there ... 's literally no way to tell. About an hour in, the ogs had to leave, but a ... ="107008" image2="107009" image3="107010" /] In the 800s, we encountered a dilemma

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to ... linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  a fireplace (even if it is boarded up and non-functional, as are most ... , frostbite is no fun and neither is being wet all the time. In case you haven ... in January is 36 degrees, the average low is 22 (it's also the coldest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  dinner, read occasionally and made another door sign for our room. in a way ... walls are new as i walk in every night. it feels like the default. it is ... comfortable here, i can stay here. this is not a four-year long plane flight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... May. In between the two semesters, during January, is Independent ... .6721 Negotiation Analysis, which meets for 8.30-4.30 for three days in a row towards

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  15 in less than a month. But the problem with meal plans is that they ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  case on that summary card. Then, in a month, we'll bring all of the cases ... admissions officers sat next to me at a college fair last week in Chicago ... Boston, the ability to have so many colleges right nearby is a really great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  ordinary in the sense that it is common. A meal is also beautiful because it ... interested in food. This isn’t a restaurant; this is a dream workshop.” I was ... think the ways in which time is best spent boils down to only a few things

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  , and is set up in a discussion-focused style with debates and discourse ... in elementary school. Ah, the glory days.[/caption] The class is a lot ... ="111884" /] …   One thing we’ve talked about a lot in our class is values. In one

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  . That shift in mentality is honestly what has kept me sane in being a ... loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics

  • by Phi A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  There was a nice article in yesterday's Boston Globe about the ... Brain and Cognitive Sciences: The disorder is complex, both in its genes ... building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005