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  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  last fall semester asleep. I tracked my sleep patterns from the first day of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... I dropped your phone in the toilet. Sorry…. But not really.” Now ... definitions of the word. However, you know what I mean. They are simply people

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing ... recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... , and sat down cross-legged on the carpet. I pulled out loose papers ... some point, I took a break to refill my mug, pausing on my way out the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  on January 1, making the MIT Regular Action deadline 5 hours away. For ... until the last minute. If you have technical problems with the Part 1, let ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as ... . (Inexplicably, the other one was Web Design instead of Wikipedia

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  Now that the semester has started, it's an opportune time to ... consist of Doritos? Will the effects of eating so many Doritos have a long ... bake dozens and dozens of cookies? The scintillating answer to those

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Young Guru & the Metropolitan Opera The Arts at MIT

  

  gone and the temperature's still in the thirties, and the wet gray ... drawn match the wet gray sky, you can think about the work you have to do ... see some glamorous woman in a beautiful coat leaving the List Visual

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Shih and Albert Chang will be going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  the opportunities, resources, and culture on campus. In particular ... not to attend the Ebony Affair program mostly because I wasn’t sure what ... -frosh undecided on whether they’ll attend to highlight what the weekend encompasses

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  IAP is one of my favorite times of the year, because it's the best time to do stupid things at the canonical school of smart people with ... some of the dumb shit I participated in. [caption id="attachment_112772

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  "] barcelona, with casa battló in the background[/caption]   If there’s anything I’ve learned from being here this long, it’s that when the weather turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at MIT so far. The project is involved with the Transiting Exoplanet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  Whether you blog for a job and get paid by the hour, or you ... to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... table of contents, which tells your readers what the sections of your post

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  , because I was deeply unpopular in high school. And no, it wasn't some trying-to-charm-the-opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... still confused during my chemistry lecture because what even is the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many ... knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus, the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I really came into my own as a MIT student. And I did, I think. I enjoyed the ... though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme. This year the theme was Danger, so there was a lot of really cool demos

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018