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• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  channel to play Sting's 'The Last Ship', which is sort of our de facto hall song. The second one is "annoying 1e bot", which is programmed to say all of the stupid memes we like to yell in lounges. The best feature is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  or may not be carrying. I want 15 HOURS of work to amount to something ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to ... writing thingies. 11 out of 17 cases was okay because, y’know, the world is

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... was kind of mean.) Edited to add: Junot Diaz on Charlie Rose! ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  college spring break is everything I wanted it to be and more, which ... people at a club, and I saw another 20 or so on my 5 AM flight back to ... got better on Friday. we went to a beachside brewery, battled some waves

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological grace, my writing professor agreed to move the location of today's class

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  Power of All Day 3: Challenging What Is, Looking to What Could Be Day 4 ... , and I couldn't have picked a better place to celebrate my birthday or ... Shape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  want to mention, which are some of the memorable moments from GIR's in ... , I took 5.111, which is (re)Introduction to Chemistry. The semester ... hack of 2013! A great way to start, after last year's concluding one on

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Clay Aiken! I'm not sure how to explain the phenomenon I witnessed on ... Aiken message boards, and hundreds of dollars on hotel rooms, tickets ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... The MIT Monologues performed last weekend. MITMo is an offshoot of ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... , and it is both an ode to the nostalgia of that first year of back and ... I sit on the Felipe’s rooftop, or on the docks of the Esplanade, or in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  best not written about on the blogs. Some of these phenomena can be written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... a HASS major) on campus, the Infinite Corridor is an 825-foot

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  . Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... day. Let's look back at February 13th and move on from there. Moving to MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  't "good enough," or that you won't go on to do something completely ... able to help you get to know MIT a little better than you may have ... last barrier between me and knowing whether or not I might be going to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  -find, or determine where the tip of the tool is relative to the edges of your ... stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy ... over to the lathe. A lathe is a machine which rotates a part and allows

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  had fabricated something out of nothing. I clung on to my friend because ... ? Prove what? Or maybe I saw it as a chance to live out my dreams of feeling ... the idea of a conversation with a stranger or a big party event doesn

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your radar (or I've created the perfect search terms to draw you here or one of ... supportive community of 4384 undergrad peers, which is the perfect mix of "You

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  out tons of free stuff and market to the college crowd. Alas, I didn ... published some instructions I made on how to build a loft. ANFSCD This last ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a ... to events etc. Another big source of fun is sports. Going to the ... learned to ballroom dance. I also managed to catch up on a lot of reading

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  arts to make the world a better place. We deferred 6,210 applicants ... Updates and Notes Form, which will become available in mid-January on your ... decisions. We recognize it's a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  that I was never going to go on to become some kind of research scientist ... . I really, really love physics. Which is weird, because I used to ... . If anything, I'll take it as a minor or maybe major in 8b, which is the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006