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• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  day. Events had unravelled very quickly; we found out on Tuesday that ... how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store it in fridges (New House has nine living groups, each with their own

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  ='With the late Suzanne Corkin as my advisor, who led the research on the ... -2012) have any tangible bearing on my trajectory as I time travel at a rate of ... following semester in 5.13, I had a C on drop day so I disenrolled. Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  tend to have study breaks and go on trips mostly with your floor. Because ... becoming great friends with their neighbors early on in their MIT experience ... nagging scientific questions above? Battle on, reader. 1. Do people swim

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  who ends up with the proverbial "Kick Me" sign on his back? Well, that happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take ... woke up I found someone had put this sign on me: LOST, HOSED &

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I wrote for my HASS on Tuesday. Today is an awesome day. Hopefully I can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  ... I think we started early breakfast to make it to lecture on time. However, today we decided it was imperative that we finish the dozen eggs we ... access to really great live music in Boston and Cambridge. I definitely did

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: EA Deferred

  

  the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Early Action: Deferred A forum.

  

  shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  space for more admitted students chatting.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  of different exercises, but my main focus is gonna be on SQUATTING ... zero is an awful feeling. On my first few weeks, I couldn’t even squat[annotation note="usually 45 pounds on its own"]just the bar,[/annotation]and my legs

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  of sleep, something you'll learn to live on at MIT. 3) It's harder to ... , this is not an insignificant thing. I live on TechCash. I also launder my ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM ... dome, a multi-part hack appeared on the morning of September 4, 2015 ... was used to fling older hacks back on the Great Dome. The hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts without the help of another living mammal in 1966... less I digress.) In my ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the ... I’m actually living here, in the middle of it all, that I’m sleeping ... . So even on days when I’m stuck at home, going to office hours after

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  I took my first final today: 8.022, Electricity & Magnetism with ... liked the bits about relativity (too bad it wasn't really on the final ... Biology Angelika Amon to investigate the effects of aneuploidy on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what ... D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in ... with air conditioning writing on the internet about how I feel when there

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  , depending on how you look at it. I was 8 and lived on the outskirts of one of ... strange restlessness. The restlessness of living on the edge of great change ... farther away from the knowledge and innovation that they carried. I lived

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... fantastical outfits, splurging on drinks and food as they swayed to music that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023