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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  clubs to study and such. 4. Not playing the “GPA game” well... See #1, #2 ... me, sounding like a college confidential parent) 5. Not going to class ... worth” but ultimately, I would end up regretting not going to 100% of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  . We headed to theater 12, showed our ticket stubs, and walked in. Not ... As I type this it is 3:28 AM. I have to be awake for work at 4:45 AM ... try to get an hour long nap in. Or, it means I can tell you what I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  foreigner who did not even speak the language. “I wanted to remedy this ... beautiful, though not necessarily tangible, to their lives.” Alia decided to ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  .02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution ... pleasure. On the other hand, How to Stage a Revolution* has the coolest ... revolution. **Aside II: It was even submitted to reddit.com, and no, not by me

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  describe how quiet this library is is to let you listen. This is what the ... into a perpetual tourist. That's not so bad, I guess, because I fit right in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  . When I make appointments to "get coffee" with someone, I do not actually ... Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since we're both seniors, rather than get down to business, we goofed off in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... I am happy to report several things: 1) I no longer have swine flu 2 ... across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Loan Art Program allows MIT students (and only MIT students) to borrow ... annual fall showing -- before it is loaned out to students -- is open to ... to the collection each year. Selected students pick up their art

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  , but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to ... 't describe the physical appearance of this fish in such a way as to convey how ... front left wheel had sheared off. Not willing to give up, we hoisted the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  secondhand stories an allegory

  

  -five and complaining about how hard it is to land a decent job. and sometimes ... weird at first, not being able to perform for them on stage. we kind of ... going to rehearse scenes without a stage to perform in? how were they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  I decided *not* to be angsty. Instead, I wanted to compile all of my ... for MIT were very informative and very factual but not very fun to read ... not be able to stop, to be entertained, but at the end feel like they

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  look up a youtube tutorial on how to change a spare tire. winter in the ... [/caption] we figured out how to access the spare tire and all the tools we would ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... more moral option to choose?” The problem is not very interesting, prima ... positive, and thus which kind of people are morally positive. To not be

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  Panhel rules like how sororities aren't allowed to throw parties or go to ... medical reason b) find someone else to take my place c) pay dues while not ... bridge every day to get to class. It'll be weird not waking up to cats and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  ), not the summer, to be the time when you're truly making your living ... . SHORT VERSION: RESIDENCE-BASED ADVISING WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS ... NOT ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE DORMS DURING YOUR FRESHMAN YEAR. I'm sorry, I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  have guests, not to exceed three nights in any given week. Overnight ... admission to MIT.how can i improve them.? any help would be highly appreciated ... tends to confuse these groups of people is the housing system, and how it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  how you vow to reinvent yourself, you will still be yourself at the end ... how many times your mom yells at you to pick up your clothes, you ... not only admitted to forgetting to wash my sheets, I also wrote

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  completed applications (and 60 people started an app, but decided not to ... Dakota, who knows exactly how many students from South Dakota go to MIT ... greatest pleasure to introduce to you, in my role as[annotation note

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  like to think that I've collected some diamonds through my time here. So here's to spoiling you with my riches: The Ultrium It's 100% ok to not ... rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... some really great techniques on how to "ground oneself," which is when ... , try to finish that night (Did not finish - will finish by end of weekend

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014