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• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  M. '12 poses for a photo with his debate class. Oh, it gets dark here ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the ... going to run a Python spelling bee, one of EC's traditional bad ideas ... to make it shorter next year. Upstairs I try to take a nap, but am

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... subsidized to a mere CHF 500-600.-, probably the only reasonably-priced expense

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of questions. Karen asks: "This is a bit random and irrelevant to your entry ... , on to the point. By now, I suspect that a lot of my readers are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  be traced to individuals; that it be secure; and that police get a ... getting access. When a city contracts with a vendor, they must also abide by ... to communicate back and forth. The A/V setup worked surprisingly well

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  say that Nate Silver is as close to a rock star as you can get in the ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  thought it would be nice to get away from that for a year. This isn't to say ... to get some kind of perspective on what's out there should start by ... house has a fantastic pool table, so I get a lot of opportunities to play

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... to spend a whole week studying. i kinda wished both of my finals were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  been planted...so I think that maybe, if I can somehow manage to get a ... Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , we'll all get on a plane and fly to New Mexico, where we'll reduce some ... straight face, I asked Jenn to go inside and get the sheet off the bed so ... building) won by a long shot. So, yes - we slept at work. A janitor judged us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  's somewhat easier to get into graduate school after taking a year or two off ... most is to read anything you can get your hands on -- if you have a broad ... seems a little silly to try to get in touch with them before I get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Andre 3000, from OutKast, has a son (by Erykah Badu ... to present a total of 6 dishes for tasting and judgment. I was incensed ... should feel lucky that we even get to bake apples anymore." But I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power ... university to attend. If this is you, I hope these words help decide. A couple ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  *written by Sharon L. '21 as a part of the 8,726,500 Seconds of ... AR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... day has been exciting and full of surprises. I usually get to the office

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  Conner 5 as a nice blonde older sister who just finished getting her master ... , a little frustrated by being the only boy and by being the proverbial middle child and by having red hair, so he compensates by acting out a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  of sports at MIT, and a lot of ways to get involved with physical ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to ... amazing fact. (You may hazard a guess as to how many times I've heard the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  become a good professor" became Work through this to get into graduate ... $\pi_x(A)$ and $\pi_y(A)$ respectively. If it helps you to see it written ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... -Cultural Culinary Story." When he gets to campus, Emad hopes to join Live Music ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets ... formulas. At MIT, you would get a more condensed summary of this theory, but

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  ’t get a section of the tap dance for THE LIFE OF ME, and I wanted to just ... admitted to MIT, my number one concern was not having a space to pursue my love for the arts. I NEVER thought I would go to a STEM-heavy school

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019