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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  .) Within a few weeks we'll settle on a final product, do some detailed design ... : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... should be a little interesting, maybe. 21M.705: The Actor and the Text You

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  Yikes. It seems like I may have gotten Wenhao into a bit more trouble ... admit "anything" with 2 X-chromosomes. Wenhao posted a different comment ... numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  answer the questions I posed earlier.   I do a lot of my resource ... have a draft, I usually do a couple rounds of editing depending on how much time I have left. The first round is me doing a read over through my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities ... rigorous is less fun. But doing this for only five to eight hours a week is ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  not. For example, if you try to do something cool, or say a piece of ... This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... 've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  East Asian Studies there and now he’s doing a PhD in number theory at ... On Friday, I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, a movie where a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  a required class for my major, so I’m going to do my best and hope for ... (a lot of them are lottery only, so the best thing to do is to ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  the trance that comes after watching a good movie or a good book, the ... reply back and wouldn’t think you’re weird because you’re starting a conversation for no reason opening a fridge immediately after closing it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  cannon, but with a firing range. In order to do that, though, we needed a ... Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  believe in the same things you do and sometimes it takes a little push to ... beginning. There exists a popular webcomic called xkcd. Its creator: Randall ... hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew a lot of other math majors would be (Random). I figured I would have

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... and a half classes that fell under MIT's broad category of [annotation note="MIT students are required to take a variety of Humanities, Arts

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot ... one step at a time. When I started my freshman year, I simply looked up ... for them, and off I went. Because I had attended a community college in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on ... with a prefrosh that fit their profile, and everyone was super excited on ... friend Neerja A. ’16 came into physics today really excited about her

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  I’d do a fun post about what’s in my bag (and on my person). The Bag ... brands and very affordable. Maybe I should do a blog post about skincare ... just ended, and some blank printer paper. I do a lot of my design

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  this some day and remember it all.I expect there’ll be a deluge of blogs ... ."]dreams.[/annotation] # For about a month I managed to write on the weekends, but classes expand ... work behind a glossy desk, property of a company that paid more than I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  just do research forever. Here's to moving forward. I met a lot of ... drawing again I used to do a lot of art as a kid, but for the past four ... year just flew by in a weird sort of emptiness. It didn’t, of course. I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020