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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  (especially if you're new to the site - hi, new people!). So I've spent the past ... the left side of each page. So if you're checking out the page on ... means to them. All the entries on these blogs are good. But time is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... even if there's no reason for me to get up, and usually get less, but ... Project in its scope and usefulness, and I feel honored to be working on it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  -Madison. *Having a five-year-old sister, I get to see for myself, from a new ... class, taking a break to walk along the Charles with a new-ish friend ... New Hampshire with MIT Outing Club, listened to bluegrass at the Fresh

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  sometimes you get little pictures throughout your recipe to check to make sure ... -Fun-Times (although I’m working on getting that changed). Let me preface this story ... very much like writing a good recipe: you have to list your ingredients

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to ... trail your way back to the beginning. It makes the solution significantly less complicated to get to.   There's More Than One Answer Now

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  't always have time to get proper treatment and have to nurse it on my own ... training on my own is that I get to form my own schedule. I'm not tied to a 5 ... Sectionals. I love to compete, and its what drives me through hell weeks on

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  'll get back in Boston on Saturday morning, just in time to catch the final ... to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... this trip to a) explain why I might be uncharacteristically quiet on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  , and had to get back to school) (through this cool library network we ... to get through all 10 this time. So far, I have... Nonfiction: The ... , whether it’s a new one or an old one or that one you keep meaning to start

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  here. When you stroll down the Infinite on your way to class with a ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an ... get the idea. So it's hard for me to often answer the question about how

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is why I warn my freshman advisees against getting on "the treadmill." "The ... classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  when I was a Rep, Apple was trying to generate some new ideas for projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... Tube! So if you're bored, and you want to screw around with something kinda

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  ! Although I get to do it for fun, and you get to do it while biting your nails ... like that in your life. 2) It helps to get an English teacher from a ... . Everyone is going to have an opinion on your choice of topic, or your tone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  . But on the contrary, everyone spoke to me the same way they spoke to ... get from talking to them when you know, without either of you actually ... ’t always have to be that extreme. I get the sense that people here do see me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  prompt for our weekly poem; this week, what we write is up to us. Purely on ... -- but I cry a little bit anyway when I mention it on the phone to my ... opposed to the crucible, the furnace where you gather new glass. Yes, it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so ... . After lunch, I went to a session on "Advocacy and Federal Funding: What ... researcher, you can get obsessed with and trapped in your little specialty

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... you're Chuck Norris, anything + anything is equal to 1. One roundhouse

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  uber to my Airbnb and after meeting my host and getting the run down on ... ! How much do you want to get out of these 4 or so years of your life? Are ... has to offer you so you can maximize on your personal growth. My advice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  semester. Then on registration day, you meet with your advisor to make any ... you get here, you register for your first term classes during ... students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  to reach that place has come through on here. I hope that if you're a ... adventures, people with whom to get into trouble and then out of it -- was ... before you can begin to fill it in. If you are new to these pages or to MIT

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  reason. Don't skip all your 2.007 labs to go tanning on the esplanade, but ... going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT ... introduce myself to them, and they say, "Oh, you're not an undergrad, right

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008