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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , health(t) returns to its initial value and Katelyn still has a headache ... , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  Have you ever wanted to feel happier and thought, hey, maybe if I eat ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to date and I have not been able to bring myself to watch it but now I will

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  Umständen weiterläuft, an dem man sich, wenn es not tut, halten kann…” “To ... circumstances, to which one can hold tight, when necessary…” - from Nachdenken ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• 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…

  

  of sweat trying to get over this ridiculous cold-flu-thing - let's just say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... of time for blagging. Good thing they got Sniv to cover it as well. But

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the MIT blogs? Here's the official Ben Jones reason: I asked Snively to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  in an airport never fails to invoke some sort of Feelings in some ... Moscow time, and as a result I go to bed at 4 am and wake up at noon ... my friend and I tried to build a sleep scheduling website for

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  you unsettled when you finish it, and yet (for me at least) unable to ... both Hungers. On a practical level, we all have to feed our Little Hunger, which includes our literal hunger, to survive. But precisely because of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can read it if you want, but tl;dr: when COVID hit I went to live in Maine ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  to initiate your nationwide rollout. But you pride your company on its ... challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  ), it was my duty not only to come up with a concept, design the book, and make sure every page was laid out correctly, but also to steer the design ... what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  .org/topics/life/student_life_culture/valentines_day_special_1.shtml) and continued to run into her with increasing frequency until ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a ... road to cozy summer skylines, breezy sunsets, and barely

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  in areas that would initially seem to be only tangentially related. So ... getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes? Definitely not me - I decided to write this post right after I decided I wasn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted when it came to housing. I didn’t go to CPW, I didn’t look around at ... . They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  willing to fail, and predictably, my first attempt was sort of pathetic ... , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... . Everyone at MIT is required to take one "HASS-A", or "arts" class as part of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  fail to defeat Spain. So I went to Wikipedia and looked all that up. And ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  fail it you're required to take a certain writing-intensive humanities ... downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  initiatives created by MIT to educate the world. And, as I said before, they ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Precision, on AoPS. My initial goal was to share some interesting ideas I' ... Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  looking to get in on the ground floor of new initiatives, but only when I ... , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but the technical ability to make it happen -- can meet by chance, attract

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007