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• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  mention of MIT was on CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/08 ... been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  On June 1 (where my last post left off) I hopped on a plane and left ... sunny, warm, and dry, all of which are absolutely false descriptions of ... , extra shirts, loud voices, and a robust sense of humor, we propped the car

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  opted to stay another year in order to finish up and graduate. One day, towards the end of this student's senior year, a small skirmish took place on the dorm's e-mail list between this senior and an undergraduate in

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  everyday after school, spent all my money on art supplies, and absolutely ... , I got my first taste of laboratory research and loved it. From there ... truly stick. Identities hold complex meanings and varying levels of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... from my mistakes, and moved on. I changed how I studied, focused on different problems, and although it was a lot of work I ended up doing just

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2007 Dancing and dining with 950 engineers; candids of Bryan and Sam included (~25 pics)

  

  The 2007 Senior Ball was last Saturday night, and as a member of the ... . The odds are good... Here are Cathie and Kavita, who focused on ... other things, the first two consecutive days of nice weather since

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  Did you miss the CPW webcast with Lauren and Jennifer? Well if you hurry you can still catch it at the Class of 2014 site! (use the username ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  actually part of the plot and (b) the kids are just so much more intelligent and witty than their counterparts of yesteryear. But it's still... The ... proposal and it went really well - I think we're going to be able to

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  went back to a classroom in building 4 and redid all of the midterms on ... Newbury Street and spend a not-good amount of money on new clothes, and then ... If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on ... Rubik’s cubes 4 decks of cards 1 poker set, with 4 colors of chips ... (7 mini and colorful, 4 retractable) Hand sanitizer Laundry

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep ... . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... here when you get back.) i had a list of distractions on hand, so i can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  hear from your host well in advance of arriving at CPW [and even if you ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student ... Tonight, as MIT's Spring Break was wrapping up, we gathered up all of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You’re Still Our No.1 :) less than 2 days left!

  

  !) --- While we are on the subject of speeches - for all to-be valedictorians ... " and the second one "Experiment."" -an embarrassed '12 "Can anyone help ... decisions, everyone! :D --- WHY ART HISTORY IS AWESOME LIST OF ALL

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... with mother of pearl pickguard, ash body with maple neck and rosewood ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Check the Mail Pyramid!

  

  Hey Everyone -   Alot of questions and stress about documents and such on the blogs the last few weeks. Things like: "I sent in my scores awhile ago, but I still don't see them on My

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... , travel, do service work, or just recharge and have some fun. While that’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening ... White put on this summer. After several hours of taping down old copies ... Parisian and Earth Dance, while I've chosen a somewhat bolder palette of New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  longer sick. :^) And to all of you, Happy Valentine's Day!!! ... We will first begin with a cartoon from one of my favorite webpages: And it wouldn't be Valentine's Day without: r = a(1 - cos(theta)) Plot

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007