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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  : flop on the couch in Zeta Psi common room, wallow in exhaustion, binge ... . As often pointed out on the blogs, MIT culture can make you feel really ... deeper. When you're lying on the couch you conserve energy, which lets your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  controller, using an accelerometer to detect steps on a virtual piano keyboard. Kind of like the foot pedals on a pipe organ. [caption id ... wires, you can suspend the cube between your hands. Each face on the cube

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  stop pulling all-nighters. you complain about how much money you spend on ... working on your own and getting things out of the way before you go hang out ... 're impulsive, have a poor attention span, and are terminally on TikTok, which is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... classes i've taken, there's a focus on implementations, and algorithms that ... motivation to start working on that square dancing blog post i keep promising i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  on three black circles. in particular, the triangle can look even ... collection of black and white shapes. on the other hand, to me, it appears ... "ungestalt" are two sides of the coin, depending on whether you think the form

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... halfway through junior year, in January 2019. On average, it tells me that I ... habits vary depending on where I'm at in the school year, since this also

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  't ready for it. Sure enough, I woke up on Saturday morning with awful muscle ... the day—I felt like a sandbag... On Sunday, the fevers kicked in ... asleep. Damn. On Sunday night, I stress-emailed [annotation note

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year ... opera for FREE? With that said, if we are watching actors on stage telling

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  it, I was just taking a shower. It came on quickly; I blinked, and then ... at the evidence, it seemed like I’d hit the self-destruct button on my ... a moment. It was a Saturday, and my friends were going on an adventure

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies ... whatever else you're working on. I don't know if GPA is that strong of a correlation for this - I've worked with people who did well on tests but not so

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Artifact. It meets from 7-10PM on Wednesday nights. Right now, we have 18 ... Open Society Foundation. You may have seen his TED talk on the importance ... Consensus and Running Code" The Internet runs on code, but it also runs on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... all content which focused on safety and other such information, but ... on entering college. So click away! If you’re like me, then in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  . After all, when Tim Cook wants something on his desk in three hours ... sardonically put it, "Congratulations on being a professional workaholic." But ... .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo ... on this blog! Coming from Colorado, the weather itself actually wasn ... call it (my super Asian mother has always placed a high value on both qi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  's going on?" Friend: "..." Me: "...is that a parade?" Friend: "..." Me ... boats are on the land, who's claiming the water? ...floating houses ... Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  able to advocate most compellingly on your behalf and have them send ... recommenders may use any one of these systems. Emphasis on one: please do not ... their letters must be on school letterhead and signed by them to be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  we roam MIT and Boston, losing sleep and loading up on free food, free ... is, right? Mine is now on top of my roommate's whiteboard, where it ... going on outside of classes and ballroom dancing. For example, slacklining

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  Recently I considered sprinkling (read: coating) ramen powder on ... induced coma, I spent the last few days working on those things I put off ... 's been easy to put off what I'd prioritize on any given Sunday morning

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012