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• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  across STARKILLER: The Jedi Bendu Script site, which purports to. Now ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the ... enough to appreciate it. Not that everybody at MIT is a Star Wars fan. I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question. Some interesting theories have been tossed around, and I'd like to discuss them, because I have nothing better to do with my life. First off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on information sent in early summer, and CPW observations if you went to CPW. In

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  SUCH a fruity guy in which I prevent scurvy

  

  opportunity to live here prior. Floorpi is unique in that it is the only floor without any returning seniors, so the entire floor had to opportunity to "reinvent" our defining culture. To my very limited knowledge, we have started

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ones I once aspired to read. Not far away, there’s a path by the river

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  every saturday or sunday my freshman fall, i'd go over to have dinner with ... due. — i signed up for 18.701 because it was the right thing for me to ... to take, and i knew what courses i wanted to eventually take, and so 18

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I Feel *a* Last or at least, I'm trying to

  

  . A voice narration begins. I attribute many feelings to love or to hate. When asked how I feel about a situation, I usually say something akin to ... -all really. Because what I mean to say is that I am feeling a feeling about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  I’m being honest. To understand what I mean, you need context. For the ... burnout and exhaustion from all the things I was trying to accomplish on not nearly enough sleep. I could go into the reasons for this – wanting to do

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  quarantine throwback i present to you my early april 4 am thoughts

  

  long enough to actually work on my Computation Systems lab due in two ... friends- and I go back to bed.  [video width="640" height="1136" mp4="https ... under a rock for the past few months and only just came out to read my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  this is the third IAP i've spent on MIT. trust me, i really tried to get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really to speak. They could feel the sheer nervousness just radiating off ... 's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... 's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  ’ve seen of the archaeology site, I thought it was going to be underwhelming ... entrepreneurship and technical program designed to give undergraduates around the world the skillset and mindset needed to start their own companies. It was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  all that I could -- and wanted -- to manage on an eventful month ... 's resolution(s). My one goal for 2017? To get back on a normal sleep schedule. "Normal," meaning not going to bed at 3am and waking up just in time for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  confused. Many are saying, where do we go from here? I forced myself to go to chem lecture today, walking across the East Campus courtyard where ... is the same. With a sigh, I walk into 10-250 and try not to think about

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  Let’s flash back to a sunny weekend in April, where the grills of MIT ... my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... various dorms and houses to decide where I actually wanted to live for the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015