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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  five hours of sleep last night, but for some reason I'm awake and feeling ... this before, but my summer is very routine and kind of boring. I have very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  them with the problem to look for free places in other classes and ... start of term. If you go to a class for a week or two and decide it's not ... your intended courses and will submit it for you. Second term freshman

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a ... . 21H.406 quickly became my favorite class that term, and I found it to ... each of the fifty terms per test, of which there were two, and spent

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  repeatedly compares the angles and lines of objects in real life to what is ... pieces), and Danny and Allan (who commented on the art class scene as a ... pieces, and how drawing connects to everything. From 7 to 10pm, the class

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  summertime! and the livin's easy?

  

  . This was extra funny because I was in the UK and was made fun of all day ... 's what I'm copying and pasting below rah rah rah enjoy From: Kano ... brilliant jazz standard. i like the Lana Del Rey and Louis Armstrong &

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Happy 375, Boston! Turning 375 years old is no easy task.

  

  time on the 4th leaves me high and dry in terms of getting remotely ... how many years older than me?) And of course, who has a 375th birthday and doesn't have a party? I know I'm gonna party when I hit 375 (or

  • by Bryan
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  for with really-ugly-free-t-shirts-that-I-only-wear-to-bed-and ... wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and ... because I didn't want to spend the money or feel cluttered/off-balance. The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  try and get things done to graduate in June (eeep! real world! yikes ... for them and the less snow, the more they can deny winter exists. For me though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... , of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the ... i care about, and i think i am very near that limit this summer. i am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere on campus – and a few places off campus – the money is deducted from ... see, MIT currently has a rather unorthodox dining system, and by that I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  effect of free pre-school on schooling and wages later in life the ... award with two others: David Card (of UC Berkeley) and Guido Imbens (of ... ='their spelling']labour[/annotation] economics”, and jointly to Angrist and Imbens

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  ballerinas whom we watched perform on stage and learning the technical terms ... over the past month of online classes and especially during CP*. I am ... me write this blogpost. I love you and miss you a lot! My name is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  , how to find on-campus student employment, and how your online student ... the campus before. I quickly realized it was all I had hoped for and ... suggested events to attend and tips on making the most of your CPW experience

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily ... trees heavy with fruits. Before we began hoarding apples left and right ... after the other. Finally, after mustering up the courage, I broke free and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  if I had infinite time and money; I’d still UROP even if it was ... calorimeter was actually a pretty good analogy for my life, and then I decided I ... avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  those of you who have procrastinated and have not yet submitted your application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  recommendation -- one from a math or science teacher ("Evaluation A") and one from ... -- teachers in this country are seriously overworked and underpaid; I hope you ... your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much better

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Parting Remarks Part II: The Blogger Bio That Was I just graduated!

  

  would reply to the prompt "Tell me about yourself." The title and subtitle reflect the subject and tone I was going for. [annotation note="I apologize ... . I woke up to a video of a black CNN reporter and his team being

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 30, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  extra money while working on my problem sets in a relatively stress-free ... in an organometallic chemistry lab, and then on top of that, she's been ... payoff being that you get free summer housing plus a stipend in exchange

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  [annotation note="and now actually RAing like a real adult ... succeeded. My friends and I decided to dress up real fancy and make a whole ... , and of course, Career Fair. These shirts pile up in your wardrobe slowly

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021