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• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  'll finish up this entry when I'm safely and comfortably back in room 224C ... 's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed ... sunflowers, and the poster is pretty bad. Does anybody out there know what I'm

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Graduations

  

  I'm on my way now to my brother's graduation in Pennsylvania. I'm not really sure how it will go, or how it will compare to MIT's Commencement, but I'm sure it will be a great time. This year's MIT Commencement

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Branching out

  

  With two Central Meetings down and two to go in the Bay Area, I'm ... and also celebrate Sukkot (yes, I know I'm not Jewish, but not being ... Hillel), and I'm responsible for bringing some nice sturdy branches. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a ... ’re being held taut under tension. Emotionally, I feel as if I’m caught at the ... should go rectify all of these things… or at least the first two. I’m not

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... , I'm a blogger." Two balls. I'm glad I'm a bit busier. Full courseload ... do. Even with all the balls I'm juggling, I'm enjoying everything I'm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Equations) out of the way before sophomore year. I’m still on the fence on ... Machine Learning: I’m pretty excited for this class, both for the material ... .006 - Intro to Algorithms: I’m taking this class on Sophomore Exploratory (one

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Habits for AY 2017 (Academic Year 2017) I’m trying something a little ... tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  .   I’m 18 and a freshman. I don’t have time to waste on video games, there are “better things to do with my time”. I’m proud of the fact that not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I’m

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  existential crises every other week too! well, i'm having yet another ... the very fact that i'm becoming numb. two. i spent my entire weekend ... class i'm a lab assistant for. it was more time than i expected to spend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?

  

  i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... grand total of five days. naturally, i'm pretty discouraged and ... ...nah. while on campus, i'm grinding through pset after pset and using my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 23, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  it better. when i’m having a good day, i buy myself a coffee to ... out of bed before noon. this february i’m up at 8 am every day of the ... the way through my time here. i can’t believe i’m almost 50% of the way

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... program continues year to year. i'm also teaching for hssp this year. first time i'm teaching for a multi-week program. i'm teaching a crypto class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to PNR First semester in review

  

    What I'm pretty sure next semester will be like. No offense ... ’t slack off but can get away with occasionally skipping class, I’m learning ... now I guess I’m ready to attempt bigger gulps from the firehose, Without

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  time popped the tire on the bicycle i'm borrowing (sorry alyssa ... on netflix and suddenly it's august. i'm tired of macgregor's teeny ... campus. i'm ready to sing with my a cappella group again (shameless plug

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  A. I'm a driver's license away from being an official Montana resident. I'm a full-time employee writing and editing scripts for the YouTube channel SciShow. I'm car owner, or at least a car loan payer. And – dare I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  the blogs, for the office. And I'm still helping Kris out with them and ... achievements. I'm new to the position, but the role it plays in our office is ... they need to know about our admissions process. I'm a talent scout, more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  - most of the bloggers were 7. Or 8. Maybe 10 max. Wow. Well, I'm old enough to remember. I'm old enough to remember sprinting home in fear ... tower where I was was a target. I'm old enough to remember the feeling of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  I'm up early. I'm up REALLY early, and it's not because I stayed up ... , that gives me 1.5 more days to learn everything. The good part? I think I'm ... , just because the dome is so visible and I'm more likely to see a hack in

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  , "No, you don't understand! It's not my fault I'm this naive!" I'm sure ... the Henry Ford Museum. But all that's about to change. First of all, I'm ... Jersey or the same floor of the same dorm at MIT, I'm finally taking

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008