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• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  Institute by working here. We have a lot of catching up to do and lots of new ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  all our slides for our 10.28 oral presentation "by this evening." So, to ... . MIT pays for college cards, so basically anybody willing to brave the ... Stoots. Be sure to hire him for your next major concert. I try not to endorse

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  there are new topics I've learned, and I'm very grateful for that. I took ... ), so it made sense for my teacher to present it this way ... model for how the d-orbitals of a metal interact with molecules bonded to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They say you learn more by living abroad than by going to school

  

  . To get to the peak, you have to pass through something like a dozen ... let you know. But hopefully I won't have to...because for the moment ... Well, there’s certainly truth to that. I arrived in China almost two

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  symptoms of nostalgia emo-posting

  

  spend birthday 21. Personally, senior fall has gone by too fast for me to ... having to check my phone for the time. So I'm getting an analog wristwatch ... to ride a bike for the first time in years. Maybe I can get some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  brilliant professor and forced to think in new, uncomfortable ways. If you ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... comfort zone and expose me to new ideas that I could use or discard as I saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  's overkill for you, don't torture yourself; just skim, or skip to the end ... eye. What does it mean, then, for one object to appear "twice as bright ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... science and engineering organizations, waiting for Rep. Holt to give a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple things that have kept me going. And a big one is listening to this video ... the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  i'm not necessarily going to dinner for the food today: i just know ... where the list isn't really going to get any more comprehensive because ... outside of hall). this is normal, and usually leads to game stagnation for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  do not get approved for 21Es Respond immediately asking to set up a ... to take the easy way out by signing up for a different class that would ... yeah, here is how to (im)properly get an independent study, a sequel to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... . I found out that I actually enjoy coding enough to do it for hours at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  have plans to. I’m also not the kind of person to have new year ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... Mother, waiting for her to add her voice to mine, but she was silent. Her

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  graduation. For decades, almost every student to graduate from Deerfield had ... to do something else for a while. You know, take a break from homework ... ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator ... DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three ... expected the faucet water to be lukewarm when I asked for cold, the way it gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  to the Earth and begin transmit it. The New Horizons team estimates 16 ... Pluto for 35 years and helped design the New Horizon's spacecraft. “Just ... went over New Zealand on June 29 to catch the stellar occultation of of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies ... ...on the toilet!" “I tried, and by tried I mean meticulously googled ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021