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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  's always nice to not actually have to remember all those trig identities for ... have not yet actually had to resort to this, but that's the spirit! My ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary ... to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  to absorb, and not just that but also the extent to which they expect you to be able to use and manipulate it. It's one of the (if not the ... was used to. I complained about "drinking from the fire hose" since that

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  not as difficult to read as most modernism, but it's the most sweltering ... interested. Unless you go to MIT, in which case you don't know how to read. ... was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Toy Design, not quite able to accept the fact that it was all over. We ... Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... not just because it took two buses, the T, and an hour to get there). I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady ... the class is attractive to MIT students because not only is Old English

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... for two hours. I misread my major in haste and accidentally went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  "]my shoes[/annotation] and spend 30 minutes finding out how to turn off the ... walls IMO add a cool aesthetic to the place, but it's definitely not for ... in the room, but we could not get it to work after troubleshooting for

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  craze how a blog gets born

  

  didn't plan to blog tonight not at all it's late 1:07am, where I'm at ... 's not a slow, methodological process   against my will ... itself through me as if it, itself, wants to get out into the world and I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  ? Hard, yeah. But not impossibly so. As with anything else, you have to ... student groups and that all of them are diverse. It's not too hard to find ... over to the Bush Room to join several other MIT students in calling youuu

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  ! Please, try not to explode. EDIT: 3:10 AM: Just finished studying. The ... , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  essays to be particularly helpful or insightful. I generally do not ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred ... . You may also want to keep us up-to-date with any news in your life. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  My First Few Weeks at MIT … one year ago

  

  completed our robot and not to brag, but it was really good. However, there ... class wouldn’t change one bit. From learning how to use the machines in ... ’ll sprint across a room to hug, no matter how much time has passed. Since the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • September 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student, you have probably realized that there is an “Activities” portion to the ... extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  restaurants I'd go to were [annotation note="small local chain with pizza that ... closest to campus, as well as [annotation note="sandwiches and delicious ... "]Roxy's.[/annotation] Now, most of these places are closed, so if I'm too lazy to cook, I have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  area of the Africa! This does not include the land used to provide food ... land are used to produce different types of food, and not all diets ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... cinnamon sticks at Dominos without even having to pick up the phone. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  have expertise to share not only in technical fields, but also in ... As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  My ML model finished training right after I finished this post technically i *am* doing work right now

  

  where I actually got to work with machine learning models. I just got some code to run on my computer for my UROP project this summer, which is exciting! If I time-travelled back to sixth grade and told myself that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2024