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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  . Some of these stores; that is, stores which sold coats, even provided ... , some of which were fashionable, and some of which were unfashionable ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  schedule. Remarkably I’ve started feeling rested on seven or eight hours of sleep, which never used to be enough. A third, unexpected benefit is that ... chair, which collapsed when I tried to fit more than three people on it. A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  seconds”. One academy second corresponds to one foot of film, which is 16 ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn ... Have you ever wanted to be a performer but can’t sing or dance? Why

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  -- got to know some of my co-workers a little better with more time in the office, which is always good.) Not to mention a few overnight train trips ... lot out of the experience. It's kind of nice to settle down to classes

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  Hall, which is a double-stack of donuts that houses two bloggers plus ... . Say I had to limit my inaugural entry to a mere 6 hours of my time on ... camera on my second day, which means that Days 2.5 to 24 bore no fruitful

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I need to ask my Math teacher to post it again on or before 1st of Jan ... are on the 4th page and the last page to verify that everything is "true ... math evaluation which I made sure to be sent in the early weeks of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also ... image of Kresge Lawn now. Or maybe it was just getting to lie down without ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  only digging up enough energy to do a tenth of the first one. This is ... mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold ... answer, but don’t want to hear it. The point of yearning is the

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  we did on each other.... :-/ Anyway, tomorrow is dedicated to CPR (which thankfully, I already know), but I still have plenty of reading to do. To everyone else at MIT who is using this month to sit on their

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  weeknight, and by 11 or midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. This is painfully ... -12, which i honestly believe should be illegal"]lots of class [/annotation] on ... is key"]off campus[/annotation] on Saturday or Sunday, whether it

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  as you go, what could be better? Once/if you get to the finish, which ... "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash ... route: Leg 1 (Checkpoint High Tea) London to Prague We polish of our

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the ... of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have ... sounds stressful, it kind of is! RPM-ing is really meaningful to me; I hope

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  with on psets or even to just talk through the [annotation note ... ridiculously hard or ridiculously easy depending on you previous level of ... Europe, there is a bit of an emphasis on the politics of race and migration

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  it is). Which is to say, we will not increase the number of admitted ... on the online tracking. Is this something I should be worried about, or is it not anything to take any particular notice of?" Anon wrote, "Mat

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Song Remains The Same But sometimes my blog entry is a little different.

  

  Nazi prison camp, and was premiered to 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and their guards. This entry is a response to two excellent comments from ... 'd like to know about the time commitment and competitiveness of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... of the windows were black. But this was on the side of the building ... out of the room to retrieve the guy who had initially set all this up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... so bad that I switched it to sophomore exploratory, which is basically ... a point or two shy of the C/B border. On the positive side, that was

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  time of day. My name is Lydia. We have a lot to catch up on. I was born ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... told me not to stand on the slide. Apparently I was trying to tell her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  . Calculators can’t reveal that, but a better understanding, or insight, of ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a ... developed long before language, which is why it’s easier for us to think

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  question" (which I gather is fairly common on their tours): "yep, no doubt we ... 'd like to see on mitadmissions.org or MyMIT, drop a comment into this ... part of building this community, and I'm really, really going to miss

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007