Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... tomorrow. This is good distraction material.   Professor of Materials ... Turkle, on the positive and negative effects of technology on human

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... sleep earlier, but the process of getting ready for bed has way too many ... to dresser. Grab change of clothes. Walk to bathroom. Turn on the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... satisfy the rare intersection of (a) producing coffee good enough that I ... on thesis proposal ♫ one of these things is tougher than the others

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  ! This is on our way to the Valley of Fire, named as such because of rocks ... break. But - I ended up passing all of my classes, went on an IAP trip to ... happened on episode 6 to happen... but the first five eps were good =D) Hi My

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good ... in all of her snarky goodness, but sometimes these pesky things like ... southwest force on the stern, and the coefficient of friction of the seaweed

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4. There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... , another good ten minutes (during which I probably could have made it home on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we ... back from MIT is the music. Classical guitar has been a part of my life ... , you may request an extension of the May 1 deadline until your financial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven ... relax, because whether you’re on the "excited" side of things, or the ... much learning going on - that's what we're going for right??? Haha

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  . And on top of all that, Will is a fan of my field, Artificial Intelligence. Be sure to play the video on the Peas homepage. Anyway, when Will ... Slice of MIT). You may recall his previous guest entry. will.i.am by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... ankles in urban New England. Slush is a test of courage and moral fiber ... “comparatively pleasant.”) By the way, I'm sure some of you think that “shoes” is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me ... working on my UROP in the Langer Lab - I actually wrote most of this entry ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  on Sunday and immediately knew that this was a day of unusuality. The ... fallen asleep on a park bench by the side of the Charles River using ... great outdoors. Further checking of the pictures on my camera confirmed my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  with me, and the new freshman bloggers. I'm also on the Associate ... collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  Fritos in our trash can that someone grabbed at LaVerde's on the way back ... that even after our good days, all we want to do is eat dinner at 5:30 on ... of the few orderly things in our room... ... Good thing we're living

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  good because lots of beanbags are there specifically for sleep. most ... a study is being conducted on main campus (worst → best) 1. Your 9am ... because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ="Fluid Physics"]8.292[/annotation], all of which I was planning on taking anyway ... of the weather/climate forecasting field I want to focus on more at the moment. 18C would represent a shift to focusing on the underlying math of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  - “Exceptionally good performance…” B - “Good performance…” C - “Adequate performance ... - “Failed” (⊙︿⊙) and if you’re a freshmen on Pass/No Record you can expect ... figuring your life out and your employers will never know. All of these marks

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... physically. I threw a party on the Saturday following CPW, which most of my ... worked out that way. There are just so many projects that I had to put on

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  hunting remotely, instead of from on campus. Smaller teams can coordinate by ... to keep track of who's working on which puzzle, where they are, how ... So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  investment of $20,000 per new startup. DRF has invested in over 100 student ... Gorbunov, co-founder at Aikicrypt, a new way to encrypt cloud data. PhD in ... MIT.   Most of these companies are new to me, but I have heard of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016