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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  , and then I decided to be all creative and turn the cup into a tree trunk ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... while you’re on a plane, yet so fast when you’re taking a final exam and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  -generated text. In any case: What this policy should be depends on the kinds and ... practices, and the worst of their shortcuts can be mitigated by walling them ... commentary in the popular press (and Discourse™ on social media) about these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  drowned on my way back from main campus earlier that night, and the storm ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... , not Hemingway's novella. I tried to split The Old Man and the Sea into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  stores on top of other stores, and food can just be delivered to your door ... looking at colleges, and I tagged along on the trips and tours. MIT just ... was the place to go for science and math. From that point on, it became

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  book and the Math II prep book, from start to finish, on top of my ... until the last minute can be really stressful. I’d suggest taking subject ... . However, the following are mostly general study tips that could be applied

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• 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.

  

  exactly what happened in the first moments of the universe. And word on the ... everyone and nearly broke my face on the screen door, and wrote a blog post ... and writing lecture notes for Quantum II. On my way out the door, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  day, I'll be hopping on a jet plane, bound for the tropical island of ... don't do him justice. You have to be here. On the last day of class ... were anything like me last year, you will probably be jumping up and down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  sounds out of gravity waves... and probably, like, solve the mysteries of ... learning special relativity just so we can show that electricity and ... dangly moon earring on test days, distribute lollipops, and recieve a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  , I was quickly excited to hear that they were replacing the chairs! No ... comfortable chairs. I went into 10-250 yesterday to check on the remodeling ... and tested every single chair for comfort. Here's a quick breakdown

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being ... cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  I'm a bit under the weather today, and I'm still working on the next ... Leave Iraq." The event will be held from 4:00-5:30 on Thursday, October 27 ... , November 11. I saw Hot Hot Heat on a previous tour swing through Boston, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... for how fast you can make them, and they can be beautiful too with the ... get the hang of tacks very quickly, so we can move on to butt welds

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  people in the class, and it’s pass-no-record the first semester, and I ... brain and work ethic I had from high school. But, the fact of the matter ... about application and integrating (harharr-the bane of my existence

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and ... can also follow the conversation and submit questions at #MITand ... face facts, and we turn passionately toward the future. Today, however

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the ... and the obvious intersection of her two majors. It's also what a lot of ... I'd summarize them a bit so that prefrosh and incoming frosh can see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX ... presentation on Friday, and I generally felt okay at the end of the week. I ... Friday, and, for the most part, I did a lot of nothing. eight days ago On

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  -- sort of. They've been on hiatus for the past few years, and they ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing something short about the last few entries' comments on my blog. (5.60 is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  be in New York with high school friends for the weekend; more on this ... , it's the response from you guys. Getting your comments and immediate ... for me: If you'd like to post the link yourself on your blog, or just

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to ... 'm guessing (but can't promise) that the Marching Band will be leading it

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008