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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  level of chemistry coming in to 5.112 or be comfortable with calc coming ... I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  and you've all either thoroughly trampled on capitalism or come to the ... The weird thing about quarantine is that I'm actually being better ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have ... MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  the basis of at least 2-5 points on a test or exam, or whoever pulled ... pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less ... that is. That bit makes what I do an extension of who I am, which is

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... from my five-week expedition to India. Fine; even though IAP is ancient ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... minimized. However, graduating on June 8 means you have to move out of the ... decision[/annotation] to move commencement to the week of Memorial Day, which

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  Recruitment, while giving people equal time to all five of MIT's sororities, is ... 's left is for me to stop believing that my cursory knowledge of all of this ... 've always been the first person to make fun of them. Between the claims of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... change. i wait for them to say something, or feel better, or worse (i

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  Princess Leia" and "When You're Good to Jabba" and "City on a Cloud" and "One ... : LUKE: Hello. My name is Luke Skywalker. You killed my father. Prepare to ... Rather than working on the 12-page paper on green fluorescent protein

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  out of the time loop is easy. The character comes to the life ... endless loop. Welcome to season 18 episode 98 of my life: “Hala’s Escape ... enough - couldn’t wait for classes to start. Not for the homework or the

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  . "NO GELS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE BROUGHT ON ANY AIRCRAFT." It is impossible ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... the people going to the same college you are, is aware of the late girl

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my downtime (besides playing with Legos) is watching the Colbert Report, which

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  not super dated or hard to understand. Rather, Malcolm X is like an ... ? If your quality of life is generally better even though you’re being ... or finish, I hope you’ll find time to read this summer! It can be on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  When I used to run A reflection on sitting still for a semester

  

  long of it is that I don’t know if I can do what I want to do with my ... could do all of my hobbies on the side, but you can’t do that here. Or at ... of me was hesitant to talk about that whole dilemma on the blogs, but

  • by Powers '23
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... bubbles." This is similar to Shannon's comment, which suggested that the ... 's just the overload of colors that it's exposed to on all those sides

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  At 8:57 AM on December 15, 2007, I was admitted to the Massachusetts ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu ... of my blogtastic tenure, you may find that I tend to describe concepts

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  . Yes, all of this is going on right this very minute. It would be hard for me to choose which to attend, if I didn't have to be working on ... are on campus to see a lecture upstairs by Nobel Prize winner Ted Hänsch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises ... This semester, I'm taking a wide array of classes, from music to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had ... , "Hey. It's my first day on campus. What better way to start off my MIT ... copy of the How To GAMIT (How to Get Around MIT) on the first floor of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  general rationing problem in which some people must lose out on what is ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... scenarios, either of which will result in loss of life, what scenario is the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017