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• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  electrical engineering lab or hanging out with my awesome team mates. Did you hang out with people from the opposite team or were you split up socially? I hung out with some of the members of the opposite team but I got

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is what we did with ... with cells! But when there are too many inputs coming into the system ... peppered with due to pledge training the new pledges (which just ended, yay

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with ... over, also with cash. The driver put his guitar in the trunk. We heard ... in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... among friends) that I’m actually Irish. This is because I’m obsessed with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... , hey, hey, hey, go the other way." It was just like that, with 4 hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  last played the trumpet (I brought it to campus with me, but barely ... , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass ... ; In case you're unfamiliar with the difference between a flugelhorn and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  InternshipPlus assignments so far. I recently had a telephone conference with ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a status report, and I expressed how overwhelmed I was with all the available

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  expected, I sighed with relief and took a LONG nap on my flight from DFW to Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... wonderful roomies Manu and Jeanne!) and headed to Downtown Crossing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert ... to spend a miniature fortune with me, portmanteau'ing two meals into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... hang out some more with the 254 (Burton Conner suites are all numbered

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  , with different point rewards based on color matching. The competition ... with a blue edge on top; additionally, there are "barcodes" on walls ... ://www.youtube.com/user/MITMaslab . Anywho, onto the guts of it all. This fall, three juniors with whom I live

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  thinking about the results of the tests; I was just concerned with relaxing ... . (Sorry if I offended any of you devout Columbus followers with that last ... fraternity would not be a good fit for me.) Anyway, with all the fraternities

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  . 4.Shawshank Redemption: Napping had second priority behind bets with ... something to do with magnetic monopoles and/or the Freemasons. (As a point of ... .) ((*With the exception of Thank You For Smoking, a film which lulled me into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  the rest of your life. No pressure or anything. I will weigh in with how ... declaring what I tentatively want to do with my life. This is terrifying. I have ~54% no idea what I want to with my life. Last week, I pretended I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  -12.30 (12-134) or TR1-2.30 (12-134) ______ For students with a special ... . Literary works are read with an emphasis on different forms of autobiography ... conjunction with MIT Rambax drumming group. No previous experience necessary

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  wit, I... Threw a late-night Diablo II LAN party with my fraternity ... game again. Shoot.) Had a quick Starbucks break with Melissa '11 (a ... waiting in line when term actually starts.) Chatted for quite a while with

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  'm hunched over on the airport floor. My eyes are glazed with the exhausting combination of spending quality time with my family/staying up late talking to ... flights - zero leg room, back row seating with the constant smell of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  I'll begin with a flashback. Scene: On my way back from my daily ... my UROP advisor, Linda Griffith, with a variety of projects pertaining ... Biological Engineering. I graduated from MIT in June with my BS in Mechanical

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  , but once you do get it, you can fly through the problems with ease and ... everything, along with an excellent teacher, is what got you through AP Calc AB ... you. Behold, a godsend! Kris knows math! Kris can help you with 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  it to falling in love.] Make the decision with both your head and your ... League school, a college with easy access to a beach, or one with a top ... money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006