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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  think I can confidently generalize that we all like a challenge. (Adam ... A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... competition between students, and is it destructive competition? Before I give a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  I discovered it was rather impossible to make any logical connection between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... chunks of cheese, and a handful of crackers and call it a day. Firstly, I

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  a website called Project Happy Memory, which you can check out here ... some days I literally bounce out of bed and others where I wish a thousand times that I could sleep just a little bit longer. Sad. Thrilled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  hefty sum, and I, like many college students, waste too much money buying ... lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no idea what.” At one point I turned to a friend and said, bro, what did I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  your life that are most important to you. Embrace your mistakes. I can ... out over this, that, and the other - I can promise you that, by the end ... suggested that I should write a book on college applications. Although I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  works, you can see that I have a tendency to like darker stories…   ... suitable than submitting it at 11:59 pm as I do with my assignments. So here ... experiences I’ve traveled 3 times over IAP, and 2 times over the summer

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  saving money; I realized between buying my own brass rat and taking a ... . Unfortunately, I can no longer drink the boba that’s normally sold in MIT ... dorms on Dorm Row are, so I can’t even give a good answer to this. How

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  first CPW, too, and I can tell you that the sheer quantity of options is ... with any last minute items. I'm sure you've been to the CPW website. Did ... webcast TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 10pm EDT   I can't wait to see you at

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I’m still here. Promise.

  

  the Mystery Hunt Website, you can check out all of the puzzles ... Whew. It's been awhile. Um...so what I've come to realize is that IAP is supposed to be this easy, carefree "ooh I'm going to take one three

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  So here I am (still) in sunny southern California where people are mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say ... joining our team remotely, you can email me at [email protected]. I'll try

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... admissions office, just because I can. (Hi, Nance.) 2 PM - 18.03 lecture. 3 ... come on optimism I am awesome I am awesome I can do this I am starting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  activities go, I'm usually only concerned with some subset of these activities ... .k.a. Write Your Own A.I. For A Game Of Heavily Bytecode-Limited Starcraft 6 ... you can't recycle old strategies. Most of the finals are run cage

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  . During our wait for SafeRide, we saw this kickass (can I say that?) Mini ... matriculating?", and I can't wait to meet some more. While I do understand that ... By Celena Chan '12 So here I am, writing this, and it just hits me

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  freezer so they don’t dry out. You can buy the fat straws on Amazon as well ... (because one wasn’t enough). I wasn’t there. I was sitting at a picnic table ... geese and seagulls from the bank. I spent Thanksgiving in Myrtle Beach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  I can`t wait to start writing more about life at MIT, but since I ... life seems depressing. What`s the point, I wonder. Especially if I can be ... ideas) are some of MIT`s tenets, so I bought the book. And now I`m buying

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  feet by 7 feet. You can even buy the book at Amazon.com! (For those not ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the ... This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  laptop after I graduate someday, so maybe they can go on it. A lot of the ... -ultraboost collab shoes and fell in love. Like any sane person, I knew not to buy them ... , because there were so many of them just chilling there. I wound up buying a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  . (What can we say? Kresge gets around.) One of these emails I got in that ... , and an MIT alum my mother is very thankful for: (What can I say? The ... [Apologies that this entry is so delayed. I've been walking around

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  expletive I can’t use on this blog, because cats read it or something and they ... kind of nice for once. Maybe too nice. I’m suspicious, but I can wear a T ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014