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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  shut it, since it seemed out of place. The lights flickered back on, and ... rewarding; you start attending, and understand literally 0.01% of the words ... of people grabbed their coats and headed for the exits. Professor Moore

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  biology as the love of my life, and (3) soon I won't be one of the "new kids ... on exams simply by studying and putting in the minimum amount of work ... .  Coffitivity is a favorite website of mine that re-creates the sensation of being

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  first day of class, we talk about the goals for the class, safety, and ... days long, and on the eighth day of the class, there'd be a short ... even a trophy and everything. On the second day of class, we talk

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night ... , and Crossroads meet in the proverbial octagon on the second floor of the ... tomorrow and it's all for you. For four days MIT crams all the awesome stuff

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones ... to the front of the stage when it was my time to start singing and did ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  's chill and didn't care anyway, plus she got a free meal out of the deal ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of ... 'm constantly eating between meals. And one bowl of cereal per day is the bare

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  from a television tuner). it costs about $20, and (with the help of some ... on the nature of fire), and her translation of newton's principia into ... , edited by nicole starosielski and lisa parks (who is one of the new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... , blankets, and snacks to last me for the rest of the day until the 7:30 pm

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now ... ’ve been getting more than usual on the blogs lately, and it’s a trend that

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  and imprisonment of girls whom she was nurturing and the wrenching ... , even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s: the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO ... + years and he's one of the sharpest people that I know. Finally, it dawned ... exams and/or stuffed on a bus or the back seat of the car on the never

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.

  

  somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and ... sum for the first time here in Boston. A group of about 12 of us went to

  • by Bryan
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth ... ended up re-reading the whole Harry Potter series (fan for life) and the ... . in that I always used to be hungry for books, and I like the image of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  a pi day (decision) story 3/14/21 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page. That’s the same place that you ... help! In the meantime, there’s a bunch of things you can do while you

  • by Tim
  • March 8, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... -forward to two weeks ago, when I was surfing the web and reading some of New ... -figure-advanced, award-winning book of short stories, Drown—by most accounts the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  strips and loops of metal through my ears? And I said that sounded kind of ... months of ick and ouch later I started putting shiny metal things through ... pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig Nobody

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  zero knowledge ^ not you after reading this post!

  

  , or we could take pictures of the balls and examine the rgb pixel values ... first entrance and exit via the second entrance, while my friend watches ... surprising that many of the authentication and authorization schemes keeping

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  to the MFA. 11:25 am: I get bored of Stata and decide to move to ... created in phase I) of the project to set up today’s feedback meetings and ... upon the recommendation of my 6.005 professor and now TA boss. There aren

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  across the room. There were looks of surprise, happiness, and even some ... onto just a few pages of paper is tough so we decided to try and make it ... If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009