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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  …it can get pretty overwhelming. I’ve found myself having less and less free time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge ... many people (and I, too, was once guilty of this crime) who went to one

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  friends, which i am not. so, now that i'm in the midst of social distancing ... so...for the sake of social distancing, everyone's trapped in their ... have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  retrospect, this description makes the decisions I make in the body of this ... wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my ... lime-colored. I couldn’t decide if I loved or hated them."](550, in 5East

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it ... malfunction in our darn WINDSHIELD WIPERS. I was stuck in an auto-repair shop in

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  appreciated the actual view in front of my eyes, just because how shitty I felt ... ...shh[/caption] These numbers are mostly based off of how confident I am in myself. I ... the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. This is one of the most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... . Longest. 7-8 minutes. Ever. I sat with my head against the seat in front of ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  College Confidential message boards), I've noticed an abundance of ... way one can speak about this sort of thing), no. The MIT student suicide ... inspires a great deal of cameraderie among students. We're all here in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Procrastination For Finals ...so I cooked dinner instead.

  

  rice to get the consistency you see in risotto) 1/3 can of beef stock (in ... 'm too lazy when there's a lot of assignments and exams - i really only ... is kind of thick...) 1/2 can of water 1/3 of one onion, chopped into

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a ... hiked from here all the way to the second peak you can see in the back

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long maintained that one learns more in a week of travel than in a month of high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks ... the tenth or eleventh week of each academic term...which, as I ... former Bakerite, ought to know - the Drop was first conceived of in 1972 by

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  Saman" Which in turn resulted in the following i'm-so-relieved-and-in-love-with-freedom-of ... So as I mentioned in a previous post, I'm taking 6.005 (Software ... statement. I've spent an average of 6 hours each day (read: ~ 8 pm - 2 am) for

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... In the middle of 5.12 (Organic Chemistry) lecture, 16 men dressed in ... bit too attractive!" (Darn right.) "Is (girl's name I can't quite

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  's good and sometimes it's bad. It’s in that sort of way that I love the ... my brain full of knowledge by 10:05am. Unfortunately, what I ought to ... cocoon myself in a swathe of green bedsheets. But tonight is different

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... The night of daylight savings, I tried my best to ensure that I would ... -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT files lawsuit on behalf of international students alleges ICE policy “arbitrary and capricious and an abuse of discretion”

  

  where they come from. I know firsthand the anxiety of arriving in this ... , Acting Director of ICE Ken Cuccinelli said, in an interview, that this ... regulations from going into effect; you can read the complaint here. In the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  . And they come with fries! How can you go wrong? I love all kinds of ... were lots of dumb people getting in the way, so I didn't really get any ... (like that I'm good at this kind of thing or something) or the amount of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  Monkeyluv last week, and I am currently in the middle of a book I've been ... width of each spine in the regions I've defined. The program automatically ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006