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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing ... what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for ... - and I'm sure he'll explain the finer details as we go along. As for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  'clock last night, with some breaks for sleeping and eating, I have spent most ... and alkynes in preparation for my upcoming midterms in 5.12 (organic ... differential systems for 18.03 (differential equations). Yes, I have two midterms

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names ... pick through my junk mail. All senior year I got scholarship offers for ... is not that I myself am not the gender I've been assuming for the past

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  's movie marathon was one such event I had to attend. Slated for viewing for ... butcher a weekly rate for both food and board. And finally: Star Trek 2 ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  's where you come in. The contenders: LOST I've been an addict for two years. Clearly this will be one of the four; no need for discussion ... wife for this. I vowed never to watch this show, ever. But my wife's a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  be completed, they're yelling for (at?) you. Ever since I got accepted ... in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last ... Sudoku puzzles, and live for double entendres and free food. I know all the

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

  OMG OMG OMG! TODAY'S THE DAY DAY DAY!

  

  In case you forget when decisions come out: For Some: For Others: And Then Some:

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  distinction is used for wordplay, though. In Tagalog, I can think of at least ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is ... for Tagalog. The words mentioned in the post are all Tagalog words, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  and give up on Course 18), and my feelings for MIT in general were at an ... , if not the most popular major at MIT. According to the Registrar, there were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random ... away, typically lab equipment and electronics found on reuse or at Stata

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  have to do today/do you want to meet at like Downtown Crossing between ... : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Technology Review's Top 35 Innovators Under 35 for 2008. The metallic blue ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... called poly(glycerol-co-sebacate acrylate), created a mold for the polymer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  forget what) that got us both called to the front for "punishment" at the ... remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT ... trouble thinking of anything. We were at a Conclave (sectional meeting) at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  Meh. My last, like, three or four ideas for entries have not quite ... : Last weekend I walked out to an apartment in Cambridgeport for the party ... , but in the end decided to stay at EC. Then came hall rush. We had

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined A story about cream soda

  

  When I first arrived at MIT last year, the International Student ... consumed so much American media that I felt more than ready for this transition. However, nothing could have truly prepared me for the absolute

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... extremely inbred. Awww. His name is derived from the Japanese sound for jelly ... rolled around for a bit and Orion retreated into the kitchen and hid under

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  for a class of about 1,130 students this year. Based on our estimates of ... here? I know that while we plan for the worst, usually things don't ... waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end. Who do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  I. Emergency Dinner Sunday afternoon catches me cooking for 30+ in a ... is a breeding ground for weirdly poignant relationships with food. A friend of mine ate nothing but bread and cereal for a week. I once ate

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  : Mechanical Raymond took 15.S20 Design for 3D Printing as his first foray into ... designing the model, Raymond knew he wanted a turntable for easily maneuvering ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022