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• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  and as such I was stuck next to a man with the least accurate sense of ... like to talk about it. (I am, of course, kidding. My sister and I love ... of a harsh coughing noise) and "kamber" is really just a weird nickname

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  your best american girl on my first boyfriend

  

  first notes of "Love Me More" drifted in, Mitski stepped out, and the ... . She drew an X on the back of my hand with Sharpie. My friends and I ... flattering and questionable. But mostly flattering; after all, he was the first

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... experiences with the rest of us upperclassmen. We value you as members of our ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every ... disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  skills they need through a series of challenging lectures and problem sets ... many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the ... ribs." UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY. Several hours later, and here ... walked home from Kendall at 9:30AM, enjoying the sunshine and a hot cup of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . I arrived at CPW on Friday morning and went to the opening lecture. Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... of lava flowing, exploding, and making "pillows" and streams. After

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  scrambled to film and edit a vlog for—I think—the first time since undergrad ... the itch to write. And when Celena C '12 said that she was going to vlog ... caffeinated because I don't like the taste of coffee, I usually prefer

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  Today is Registration Day at MIT, and tomorrow (Tuesday) is the first ... lots and lots of applications, is the best way to gain insight. "Question ... if they are part of the class we want to build and a good match

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the ... permeates the air, almost electric in nature. It was one of the first things ... . And another. There were times where I felt the thrum of it all was too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement ... students can come and relax and enjoy some of the more questionable

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to ... still am - I just got out of my 8.02 final, and I have 5.12 tomorrow.), I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  goodies on the table, and a cluster of admiring faces had gathered around ... Center. He reminisced on the generations of students he'd befriended. And ... -- the lovingly-prepared plaque and a pile of CDs, to provide more music

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  leaders at the Museum of Science where we will be testing, and in the next ... procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... and realize that the moment of inertia doesn't seem quite right. Last ... ended up doing most of the planning and shopping. Thus, I authoritatively

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Jebby Awards 2024: See All the Winners Here having fun with hyperlinks

  

  [Part of the Up-Goer Blogs] Every year, a group of so-called important people in the show business pass out little men and women to those who they think did a good job at making movies and TV shows in the year

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Admissions and have been doing my full-time gig for the Office of Digital ... hanging around old haunts* for the sake of familiarity and comfort. Made new ... , seeing all the students, and thinking to myself, I am not one of you. But

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  : BE A PART OF HISTORY AND GIVE MY FISH A NAME IN THE FIRST ANNUAL "I ... night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them before I woke up and saw them. (Now the rest of this story I wasn

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  life of ridicule and belittlement, but I could be wrong. Anywho, the ... of precession and calculate capacitance for fun, squashing the less adept between the force of my heel and the normal force from the ground. I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... ), and Aliza (future head writer of the Mystery Hunt). More awesome ... all for a great time at ISEF. Tomorrow, MIT Admissions has the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005