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• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  planner.mit.edu, I quickly noticed that my schedule would have a very low time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... a one-year (or sometimes two-year) deferral from starting at MIT, you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  time. MIT is the opportunity of a lifetime and you can shape your ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if ... is really valuable: wherever you go, whatever you do, remember to check

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... Get funnel cake in Downtown Crossing Go on an MIT snowriders ski trip ... -by-the-Sea Play DDR in the Game Room Go rock climbing in Dupont Check out the MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and terrifying themes have emerged. The first is projects; I’m taking two project ... dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests directly to experiences that I've had at MIT, or people that I've met here. The delta in my personhood is literally entirely due to MIT. So, as a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... that MIT's Musical Theater Guild is doing this season."]'A Chorus Line ... . I challenged myself. At least to me, that’s what MIT is all about.

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from the Maseeh Hall announcement screen: “MIT gets hard. I’ll get to fixing ... post been more relevant. Now, 50 Things is a list that brings up 50

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  accredited at MIT. MIT is an ecosystem of buzzwords. “Finding the next…”, “Breakthrough in…”, MIT is discovery, invention, and innovation. We are lucky to ... by Tananya Prankprakma and Sophia Wang   This post is a love

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  explainable factors. First and foremost, it is very easy to convince me to do things[annotation note="which, honestly, is more of a kind of savior complex than a positive thing."]when no one else is doing them

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Cube MIT’s new music building is best described as three featureless ... ="Sounding good is subjective anyway"]if it sounds or looks good too ... ). Tetrahedron I think we can all agree that the triangle is the pinnacle of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  covers summer, but possibly the biggest thing skewing my data is the Great ... after coming to MIT, I was like, "Oh my god, I can't go on like this ... math at night is never fun. What I've found is that staying up late is

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Augmented reality is technology that enables you to overlay digital ... MIT Media Lab that I got to try out an augmented reality headset for the first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read ... . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is ... the typical MIT student with a huge ego I say to Matt and Ben "Psh, I can do that, look! The record is only 14, and you get an hour and a half

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just ... back in Boston. Too bad - it turns out that Florida is a pretty cool place, despite the heat. I really like how much nature is accessible there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  upwards, almost pulling the plastic part off the metal (it is a U-Lock, even though it's chaining up a bike that was only $20). It is after midnight. A ... assume the lock is supposed to go while you are riding the bike. Again

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already coming to a close, but I’m happy to say that the term is taking shape quite ... policy problems in general. I think what I’ve enjoyed most this month is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  keep me busy. I'm taking less classes. And yet, I feel like my brain is ... takes me a million times longer. I think that this is partially a symptom ... am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020