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
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
’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
' pastime here at MIT.So if you were never a big fan ofscience 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
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
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
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
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
in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your
for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... special kind of courage. I know some of y'all may be in my shoes in this
about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these ... was based on one-variable calculus. Now, I knew the focus of the class ... got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it
Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012)
(complaining about the ratio of male to ... number of men's bathrooms per floor: two point eight. Average number of ... period? my sense of chronology is pretty terrible) every French House
. This does not apply if your major requires it for a ton of classes or if ... On Sunday, I moved out of Senior Haus for the first time in two years ... from playing yet another game of phone Tetris by looking at stuff on the
I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge ... right of passage, a treat you only get as a student, and there's something ... of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your
of the process. For those of you who are applying Early Action, this is ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... interviewers remain helpful). A description of the current interview process is
(more specifically, Matt McGann and Ben Jones) were two of the speakers ... 's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only recently been through the application process but is now on the other side of
spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So I fixed it. Thanks a bunch. Moral of the story: I can't spell, but ... during it?
IAP generally runs for the month of January, give or take a few
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
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