Search

Search Results

• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  obvious dangers of “doing science while drunk” and “alcohol poisoning”, lab ... media is, in fact, drinkable. It comes in a whole range of pink colors! It ... anecdotal evidence. I haven’t tried many of these, and you should try none of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... clubs, jobs, and, most importantly, around people. The fog of existence ... ideal college, and now I get to grow here. The speed of the transition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... tutoring services (see #2 in that post – yes, I’m that Elizabeth), or any of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  ' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan of science before, you ... crowd of people filing through a set of double doors. You are flanked by people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  Tools) during the day, helping to teach the new class of EMT students during the afternoons, taking The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans on ... more and more of my life. =) There's only a week left in IAP, which is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... think? Could the bunny hat use a bit of an update? Anyway, over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband during Class of 2005 Orientation in August 2001, and they've been inseparable since. (They are both Course 3: Materials Science & Engineering

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  When you think of people at MIT, maybe you think of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, or perhaps you think of President Susan Hockfield. You probably think of the Nobel winners, such as Prof. Wolfgang

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  CPW has come and gone, and it’s left all the students of MIT with ... . I organized CPW in my dorm last year. It is one of my favorite times of the school year, because I love having silly events and meeting

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  6-2 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). They are also ... come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  in this corner of the universe with anyone who chooses to listen in ... this place. My semester has been a literal oscillation between weeks of a ... : Midterms really don't equate too much in the grand scheme of things. Work

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  do things other than science, technology, or engineering. I personally ... huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 ... horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent of a "normal" class. perhaps that deserves another blog post later

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  every flavour of Oreo offered in the northeast US, as there are many more ... As I write this we are just east of Buffalo. My mom is driving; my ... of those," my dad laughs. We are headed to Cambridge, to MIT. My

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the ... diagnostic when you first get to campus. The results of the diagnostic help you ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  Why do I cook? It’s a question that many of my friends have asked me ... ” of coming to the US for college, getting disappointed by MIT dining ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  If you enjoyed the story of the MIT Blackjack Team -- the movie "21 ... grad who later wrote the textbook on applied geostatistics, now runs his ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  future and my childhood and just a whole slew of things that i can't really ... ...general presence and the spaces i inhabit and my role in all of this. i've been dwelling on my high school self, living in the crevices of tumblr and slowly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  shiny new return offer to go back and work on Minecraft next summer. Yes ... incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021