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Blog / MIT Life
Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.
reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... like you're living 5/3 of a day every day the week before Thanksgiving ... down to our turkey dinner. Um, hello? How about we skip the hosing and go -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!
...cough cough* .... AND I just realized that I never finished the first sentence ... and you were the first to do so, I said that I will have a little ... "domestic side" of public health. On the side, I'll be living at Berkeley and -
Blog / Admissions
PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students
group of people and free food! I can attest from experience that the ... the passion and support of local alumni, and am always excited to meet ... Dear Admitted, Current, and Former MIT Students, Now that the full -
Blog / Academics & Research
Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.
tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... reaction, we're varying the parameters of the reactor used and measuring the output and composition of the products. Our work is not so much theoretical -
Blog / Athletics
Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT
-wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have ... members of the US National and Olympic teams did not learn to row until they ... . The girls on my team are some of my best friends and I know they will be -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!
Cycle. It is the tiddler of the bunch, lasting but a single act and being ... songs - it flows, and holds together by the use of little musical ideas ... of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at -
Blog / Academics & Research
Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies
a time, and usually many more, with the exception of five or six hour ... intersection of fun and possible, everything they normally do during the year for ... College of Music, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Museum of -
Blog / Events
MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15
for the first time this year,[/annotation] and, as a person who is very ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a ... combining the answers of several puzzles. Often, these metas are also combined -
Blog / Admissions
Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.
. The Office of Admissions is closed today, April 19, and our information ... Campus Police on our behalf. Thank you to all members and friends of the ... on campus, apparently by one of the Marathon bombers. As of the time I -
Blog / Personal Travel
My Old Kentucky Home
prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the Chairman of the Georgia Department of Corrections read it (and my age with it ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first -
Blog / How to Human
but her emails how to assert?
things incorrectly. I just got the job, and fear that a combination of dry ... for the first time ever in my 3+ years here. The early ... , waiting for me to unpack it again in August. One of the many things Stress -
Blog / MIT Life
making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles
's more about making meaning out of things that happen -- and that's the ... 'm exploring the role of a bacterial communication system called quorum sensing ... according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.
minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT offer a foundation year?
enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.
it's a bit of a walk from the lab and because it's kind of expensive ... getting together my sources and protocols to begin writing the first draft of the paper on my project. Adam got home around 5, and we picked up -
Blog / Academics & Research
One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind
on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major-less frosh and rise over four years of undergraduatehood to become masters of ... vision, of course), working part-time for two startups, and UROPing with -
Blog / Academics & Research
[Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me
Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... onto my face within the first ten seconds of going down the bunny slope ... and 2012, included the first iPod with a video camera, and had i -
Blog / MIT Life
Over here things are different. Life is about the same.
that might pave way for the rest of my life. I got my first shot at ... place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... year I turned 21 the day before my 8.05 final, studied til about 4am and -
Blog / How to Human
Jargon
students and alums, you should learn a bunch of the jargon that we MIT folks ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me