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• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  this week, but I was just never really in the state of mind to finish ... names checked off, all of this at like 8:00 AM, so we could stand in line ... , but, but these are all my classmates, and it says 'degree awarded' on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  : Light Speed Rescue or whatever is because they run out of clips from one season of the Japanese show and have to switch to a new season of the show ... saying that at the beginning of basically every single blog entry in recent

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an indication of complete Americanization. The dishwasher is a rare kitchen appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  I've been unbelievably hosed the past few days doing a combination of ... rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... experiments and write the final draft of the paper. I've been moving numbers

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... dusty stripe of stars from Boston. Today, as you probably already know ... exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college ... process. The good news is that she got accepted to a bunch of schools all ... of 12 schools down to 3. (Whewww!!! That’s been a journey.) We are now

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  Today in Boston it was 41 degrees Fahrenheit and rainy. Random Hall ... her family, and several smaller Thanksgivings branching off of it ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... your past self, what you thought of things, and how little you knew of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  of 24-hour flu or something... I didn't get to go out and watch the ... tests, right? -- but it's kind of a disappointment. I'm hoping to bounce back by tomorrow, when a bunch of my friends are going to Fire and Ice

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything is cool tl;dr I want to study too many things

  

  The theme of my (very short) MIT experience so far has been that ... interesting. EVERYTHING. I’m exaggerating, of course, but only a little. There ... about before this summer, and all of a sudden, they all seem like the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  varying degrees of notice (1 day-5 minutes). Left: Well, these guys kept ... . This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  adventure down memory lane. And for those of you who I haven't told a billion ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... about it? This is an image from one of my favorite Twitter accounts ... Memorial Drive side instead of Amherst Alley because I don't quite grasp the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016