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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... our Leadership Reaction Course lab that we did. The goal was to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  came out, chances are they'll gloss over the ants-in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical things about MIT--the hacks, the zany, nerdy students building (and destroying) cool things, crazy but strangely compelling stuff like the Time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... 's something that followed me throughout my freshman year, all the way through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... 't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  endeavor was apparently the girls who hang out in the Harajuku shopping ... to the 44 people who checked out my blog yesterday even though I haven ... reading Guns, Germs, and Steel that the QWERTY keyboard that Western

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  if you’ve hung around the blogs these past few weeks, chances are you ... lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender ... genders. Before, the cast performed both pieces from the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  one. The last time I posted was over two months ago. I wrote then ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  instead, let me talk about some of the things I've been doing in the past ... of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... a new laptop around the end of July, following the advice in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  is a huge challenge, and it's such a refreshing change from the ... classes ever since. Last IAP I went to Paris with the French department. Last spring, I took an amazing French class (probably the best humanities

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  a really bad word to activate the limbic system of the brain (science!); second, smile, because the word “snoozed” looks funny on the phone screen. The commute to the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, my UROP

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  over to the student center to a different committee, this time to judge current MIT students at the annual Trashion Show. The MIT Trashion Show is a ... the Boston area create pieces made of trash and recycled materials

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... visit as a Chinese citizen. This year, I spent the weekend at the ... I'll just borrow my parents' point-and-shoot for the weekend while I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  . But I'll probably fail. The topic of today's entry is my own amusement over the number of characters in my major. Most of you are familiar with ... the trees. No joke. Majors at MIT are also called "courses" rather than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... splitting cells over the weekend. (NOTE: As I was writing that sentence, I ... today!" Good thing I started writing this entry, because I would be up the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  Sunday. Just look for the person with the "MIT" sign near the baggage claim ... outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25), or the subway ($1.25). The subway trip can be a little confusing for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005