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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  was a good day. Meta-comments: 1. Jessie and Ben commented on my host ... in my entry and is one of my good friends. Yeah, Molly --> Mollie ... (Note of warning: this entry may be short, because I seriously

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  it's a good way for me to try a new field. Full discloser: I am very ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... a single thought of psets on my mind. I didn't anticipate the end of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  run on new hardware. TRANSFORM is this beast: https ... heard of it, and a good amount of people in the video raise their hands ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  ever joining the group on an adventure through the woods of New Hampshire ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... Tetazoo. Last spring, I joined Tetazoo on an adventure to Rumney, New

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  ’t randomly hit up someone on my floor to go get boba. Plus, many of my closest ... undergraduate experience was cut short by COVID-19, and this was a good way to ... research or industry experience on top of an advanced degree if you

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  say the L-word on this blog?), I won't deny that some small part of me ... was also one of the best. Earlier today, one of my good friends asked ... our tempers and egos to get the better of us. But one way or another, we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  are really good for branching out later on into all kinds of fields ... get really good marks in Physics (Maj.) Depends on how smart you are ... not graduated or not graduated on time as a result of failing classes

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  in there. HOWEVER, this is a good way of understanding what's actually ... , blue to yellow, etc*. This seemed to depend on the shade of the original ... logarithmic (log) scale, which is a fancy way of saying that "twice the amount

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... few weeks ago on the ways form logistics affect retirement savings Read on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  wanted to keep it going. On the morning of the activities midway, maybe ... . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in ... summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  I think FUN would be a good way to describe this weekend. THURSDAY ... Hsin, a restaurant on Mass. Ave which has some cheap eats and really good ... up on this week's episode of Beauty and the Geek. SATURDAY Saturday

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I ... in Cambridge, a new land of activity and opportunity, all the while ... the same principle of a resident versus a tourist. If you live in New

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  lot of the material covered in 6.046 is dense, very fast-paced, and ... actually quite enjoyed spending time on the problems. This mix of curiosity ... ’d spend up to twenty hours working on every last detail of every problem. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam): a run around Central Park a walk way down 5th

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... geniuses takes him.   Good luck to Jimmy and the team as they take on the Coast Guard Academy tomorrow night, on their way to the NEWMAC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  reschedule exams (like my exam on Friday potentially), the Dean of Student Life ... Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to ... my eye: When Jessica Alba first appears on screen, introduced as Sue

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have ... had the most incredible view of the night sky. we pulled over on the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  our new bloggers! Class of 2014 Anna Ho was born in Singapore but ... Last week, the blogging committee - comprised, as always, of the ... , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  of my toothpaste and finally confronted the task of getting a new tube ... actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we ... 've been spotted! Better go! Good luck on the 8.012 test tomorrow, kids, you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008