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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  first asks: "Hey, how's it going?" Confidently (but also tiredly), the ... "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... units." Checkmate. The victor's sub sandwich is up, he grabs it and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  the Tenth Labor of Herakles and Geryoneis, Stesichorus "How does ... storytelling so much that it's become a pillar of my identity — it's why I chose to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Facebook & Google Plus open thread on social media. teach me something.

  

  don't yet have a sense of how students are using it, or finding it ... trend - not by our efforts, but by the natural ebb and flow of how people ... box called the Wall. It was open only to college students, and you could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  costume, there’s a forty-minute time limit on how long one person can wear ... , naturally, YES YES YES YES YES YES PLEASE!!! ME!!!!!! I managed to tone it ... good news. And that’s pretty much how, one week after starting classes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  knowing how not to have a breakdown. It means being able to look at failure constructively, no matter how bad it is, picking out whatever there is to learn ... ? Failing. It might sound a little weird, but I came here certain that if

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  two years ago i wrote about how to walk in the best way. but i forgot ... will tell you about it today a few months ago i had a problem. the ... good news is: the boy did not break (in fact it was not close to breaking

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... intricacies of turbulent flow, how it disrupts normal optics, and a million ... at the bottom. And suddenly I wondered, why is it white? So I sat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a ... me? Well, I only found out about the dinner about two hours before it ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  the app and see how my money's fluctuated. It's a work in progress ... I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits ... read all of it. No matter how many "it's a wonderful post" or "I loved it ... projects, it's very often because it's a personal project, or I'm doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  Some Reflections It's been a long decade. When the 2010s started, I ... longer an angsty teen. It's been a long year. I changed majors, I started ... . It's been a long semester. I had to take four course 16 classes, and I

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Caring for the body health, am i right?

  

  -conscious about what my body looks like, or, how fat I feel. It's not something that ... Computer Science major, given how "superficial" of a topic it is. But every ... the time, I enjoy it. Sometimes I'm not sure how asexual I am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed ... . Swimming pools and ice cream sundaes.  Long road trips to new places ... that are to come. I'm here to tell you that as long as you don't trip

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  apologies. =( So here it is, a long overdue update about everyone's favorite ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of ... volunteered to help out the following year. (You know how it is, when you're in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  staying in touch people are great <3

  

  that's supposed to teach you how to be happier and more productive. i was skeptical about it at first since, erm, since when has happiness come in the ... me nothing but grief?? but i'm really enjoying it now. the majority of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  studying for finals, I cooked dinner instead today. =p (it didn't really take that long; i don't usually cook dinner during term just because i ... retrospect, it might have been better to use vegetable stock because beef stock

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

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... about it, how we won’t actually know what we ended up majoring in until

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  . It's been a goal of mine to learn how to code for a long time, but I ... for non-technical audiences. While the assignment took a long time, it ... without any concrete plans on how to achieve those goals. In the spirit of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  kind of makes you wonder how a computer scientist survives so long not ... ; Major Trait: It doesn't matter how early you hand in your work, they still ... vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  Introduction Before coming to college, I often wondered how hard MIT ... ’s hardness ranged from “quite” to “extraordinarily”; some even described it as ... measurements backing up these results, how could I trust their accuracy, let

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023