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• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  companies. They also help with resume writing and cover letters. One of the questions I was asked was "Can you name all of the Beatles' first and last ... of pressure on the upper and lower surface of a wing. 2:30pm- I run

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  thereof are not my friend right now.) And at the start of the first class ... it was a portmanteau of my first and last names and could therefore ... school too. I remember spending the majority of my sophomore and junior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  . Had I first gone to Party City, I might have realized that all the ... . So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  boyfriend. The night of the fire, both the GRA and her boyfriend had already ... living here. According to them, somebody had first smelled smoke in the house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  was a fairly large hollow ceramic mushroom. And since the beginning of ... Mushroom. So, this being the first of a hopefully four part series, here are ... , and it was AWESOME) 17) A yellow card specifying the rules of Hacking

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  . So ending up in my first ever college class and asking the same ... at the corner of the room you are in, and see how many walls it takes ... in the first place: Matt Parker's ability to explain the concept of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT’s Newest Nobel Laureate Can you autograph my problem set?

  

  .012 and her TA was Frank Wilczek, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in ... another name to it's list of professors, affiliates, and alumni who have won ... , Robert Grubbs, and Professor Richard Schrock. Professor Schrock won the

  • by Bryan
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my ... strong applications, the kinds of applications any school (including MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  fundraising ideas, meet the rest of the cast, and then strip to lingerie for a ... freshman year (and who has become one of my closest friends in the past year ... about 40 hours with the rest of the cast in the week of the show, and we

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  my students experience the same feelings of inspiration and confidence ... several different stretches and some of the human anatomy underlying the ... groups of core and leg muscles, and the concepts of ligaments and tendons

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I ... ." And that's what I did. I speed-walked around the basement of Pappalardo ... and free, to not reel it back into the realm of the easy and manageable

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  a combination of random beans and lentils.  I’ve had the recipe I ... supreme. This, of course, is the primary reason, and everything else is ... combination of spices. But when I went off to college and tried to make the same

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... opera, or was that just me?) We spent the first ten minutes of class or ... melody and apparently my fingers did, too: I had the ghostly experience of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... one of the first classes in algebra so it is a prerequisite for a lot of ... theory of computation before and pretty much everything is new to me so the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  result in the crashing of the internet and the explosion of my computer. I ... response to the first day of class could only be tied to that feeling you get ... some sign that might bring you even the smallest sense of relief, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the first environmentally advanced apartment building in the US. The Solaire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  might first describe the rules of the game, then describe who won, and ... extracting the relevant subset of the data, organizing it, and changing how it ... my first ever blog post showing the number of steps i took, in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  - what would be the glycerol genotype and phenotype of the four meiotic ... change appreciably? The surface tension of water is γ = 72 dyne/cm and the ... although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  shattered my conception of the tradeoffs in social interaction and existed far outside what i thought the realm of possibility was, and for the first time ... everyone notices in a room full of people i agreed with the first part of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022