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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  insatiable thirst of us wine glasses that we can't get enough of the music ... the fact that some people don't make it. I know several people who went ... and get hit with something they couldn't handle, that the wine glass

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  three of them so that I don't go to bed weeping tears of angst every night ... ). Y: Should I take 8.07 or 18.100B? K: Math! Y: I don't know if I want ... . It doesn't even go on the salad, unless the salad is potato salad. Y

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  's the extent of understanding my own health insurance. (i haven't been to ... pronouns included). Neither side may use vocabulary that obviously aren't ... appetite, tried taking tylenol but it doesn't really help. Doctor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  as coherent as any scene in the Matrix movies that didn't involve ... Wikipedia articles that I don't really understand. Luckily, my first week was ... problem: I'm programmed to wake up at 7:30 AM naturally, and I haven't yet

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... and duly put a check next to the “Theorize-about-things-that-aren't ... everything that your parents wouldn't let you do in the house when you were a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  once said, weekends exist so that the rest of the week doesn't kill you ... is full of squares, I thought. Luckily, I didn't say this out loud, but I guess it doesn't matter since I'm now posting it in my blog. This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize ... .02 pset just last week. Don't get me wrong, I love 8.02 (except when I hate ... aren't bad in principle. Sometimes they're actually pretty cool, and they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  Saturday night, and the waitress serving my table, who couldn't have parted ... doing something compelling. Yes, that's right, I don't think there is one ... into markedly lower exam scores. I can't stress enough that time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Ave from MIT. If you don't want to spend money, there's a new student ... , and you don't know what was in their packets...it might include trying ... . Unfortunately, since I was playing, I couldn't take pictures of the game, but I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  just beginning and he couldn't wait to see it all unfold. Here, he would ... used to dealing with kids their own age, and he wasn't. Anthony put ... "Boogie Oogie Oogie." I sadly don't recall which floor this Dilbert mural

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  Campbell). Since my last selection, "Monsturd," didn't go over so well with ... , and, of course, score free tickets to movies that people shouldn't ... ? Fluorophores? No, they wouldn't be that clever. Anyway, the point is that the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  exceptions[/annotation], if a class doesn't fit into my schedule (i.e. if its ... the lab physically for several hours at a time. If I don't have a large ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] Don't do this though, even though there are technically no

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  didn't quite know what I wanted to write in this blogpost, but I knew to ... chuckle whenever I read it."]I don't think they were super complete ... feeling. I don't think I realized how much I relied on writing to feel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  for more than a few weeks at a time. I don’t know if I ever felt like I ... Pinterest. My couch featured a rotating cast of MIT friends. When it didn’t ... that I…didn’t care, and that I was more excited to talk about this cool

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  Francisco. If you haven't yet, you should start by reading part one. Hour ... reshuffled; seeing as I hadn’t moved since Boston, I grabbed a blanket and did ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  this portion of the wall when I realized I didn't have enough large ... best friend, Alina, and I went in early February. We actually hadn't seen ... won't be able to wear it for a while... From the same booth as #5

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  I’ve never really done a year-ender blog post, and I don’t really ... ’s resolutions. But I couldn’t come up with anything else to post, and I wanted to ... long. I think mainly about what it doesn’t say. Unnecessary Burden (≈800

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  comMITing was that MIT wouldn’t have those things. We knew MIT has a lot ... ! Borderline Borderline didn't exist 3 semesters ago. In fact, Borderline ... masks, don't we? Anyways, Borderline started in Spring 2017. We mentioned

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember what I ranked past number 2 because I didn’t have any strong opinions ... Maseeh, but rather a student perspective on what we like and don't like

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  gives raw emotion a language that words alone can’t convey, while the ... felt immense. It wasn’t just stepping back from school, but from a path ... future. I worried constantly that I was letting them down, that I wasn’t

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024