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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  It feels good to be back at the 'Tute!!! My family drove me up to ... the fact that it was the Friday before Labor Day weekend, but we were ... whopping $3.19 per gallon, which was a good deal at the time. It seemed that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Schools of dreams

  

  it, put tremendous pressure on her, making her not feel like the great student and person she is. It occurred to me that we admissions officers ... nothing wrong, that the applicant was a wonderful person, and it just came

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  . when i think about cfish, and how i worked on it, i think i was deeply ... one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you ... 'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been ... 're here, that might influence how you perceive things at the 'Tute. I

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  My History of Task-Management boy, is it a long one

  

  work. Most people know how to use Sheets, anyway. Plus, it's in your ... abandoned it in favor of Google Keep as soon as I realized how many things I ... starting small, testing how it works for you, and then creating other things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  Well would you look at that, it’s finals week at MIT.  Which means that for a few of your friendly neighborhood bloggers, it’s also our last ... first Senior Week On The Blogs!!!! It is often when things come to an end

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  We bring the sketch to you! The internet is full of weirdness!

  

  invention on the internet, and it's called Omegle! The theory behind it is chat-room-esque in nature, except it's a 1 on 1 conversation, and it ... that they were talking to a room full of MIT students. As it turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • February 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  doing this? (It's scary how much I feel like Jonathan as I write, "The ... the mail. I'd prefer it if you post your design online and email me ([email protected]) a link to it, though if you aren't able to host it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  . MIT loves to trash Harvard, tell all sorts of stories about how Harvard ... to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it ... 's something hung up over the doors. It's a sign, it looks like it says

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  primarily use. it's an indispensable way to quickly see how your schedules ... blog posts about it. (use our website's search tool! it's not too bad.) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female ... you can only see it if you want to and you highlight the text:   ... math problem, a video about how my week is going, and my most recent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  interesting to watch while taking STS.064J, and analyzing it for how he used ... ; It’s ridiculously cool. In the period of one semester you learn how to use serious equipment to create a film. Above is a photo of me

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... like physics, well keep reading, because you'll enjoy it. If you don ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  you goes a long way in helping you get through it. More questions about ... (HA!). The Temporary Housing Assignments. Hard to believe that it was ... it's worth saying that for me at least, where you choose to live can be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  of relief. I kept thinking Thank God it's over and I've waited forever ... really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange ... beginning of freshman year - and run through it all :) ~*~ Part I: Pre

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  . Yum. No pictures though, it wasn't on my plate long enough to photograph ... , it was a pleasant experience, littered with naps and tasty food. The ... carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  how many I ate, but got Spagetti-o’s once and decided to call it a day there because of how bad it was. I’m very very happy I didn’t get soy ... IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  of it, but towards the end, I started to figure out how to start that ... of the #pandemiclifestyle, partially because it's my last semester and ... , they don't really mean it. They complain about hating school and hating

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  over last year. Though the admissions office does not have an exact tally ... release EA decisions. It will likely be sometime in mid-December, but you ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  . It was pretty ugly. Checkout the iCal for this past week. [Calculus ... questions right; it’s crazy. And if you get a true/false question wrong; sorry ... brain-frying exam questions. Mastering Physics does function as a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009