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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that ... Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  before my senior year of high school, I went to meet with the IB ... year. By that point I had filled out the core part of my Common App and ... biographical information. I’m not being paid to say this, but I thought the MIT

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... chosen to stay at MIT to do the longest graduate program possible, the MD ... , my UROP-centered blog was like an all-access pass to the labs that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  opposite direction to get to Colón, which is the way I need to go to get home ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  is that I can get up from my desk to stretch and travel down the ... , Program Administrator. You can reach her by checking out the contact us page ... program for his junior year that would allow him to merge the arts with his

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  anything to do with what the water is actually surrounded by. A single bubble ... you may not to get exactly the position you want, but you should be able ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  lesson in RLC circuits to the seniors in AP Physics. I must be getting ... problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish ... old textbooks they don't want or need anymore for anyone on the floor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  excessively amusing. The creator of the group asked the group members to post better photos of Pluto, and I started to look through them. One of the images was captioned "ThinkGeek to the rescue:" ThinkGeek provides Pluto

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point ... ! Better leave it off for a couple of weeks to let it dry out. 3) The company ... ) Once the charger arrived at my dorm, the deskworker forgot to send out

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  getting myself to write a novel than read one. Which brings me to the next ... was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is ... originally drawn for the awesome Aquil Fannis.  But I decided to take a break

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  and got cracking. Hours flew by. Page after page of paper fell to the ... MIT, you might be left wondering just what it is you've managed to get ... time flies by, and the impression I had of MIT vs now, I remembered with

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... me "how did you get into walking?" The first answer that comes to my ... take in the city and surrounding areas and to get out of the Cambridge

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  to the ALS Association donation page. The trend has been questioned by ... Challenge, one by Harvard President Drew G. Faust and the second by MIT ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert ... with the bubbles there. If you happen to Google yourself and stumble

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937. She was working at the Toll House Inn ... Chris '09 to see Alaina E'09 and Allison E'07. Despite getting lost AGAIN (Google Maps, you're on my enemies list), I had a spectacular time getting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... . That's right, it's a website that breaks down Wikipedia page edits by MIT Building number, letting you see which pages are edited by which dorm

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  getting a bus to Lechmere from right outside the station. We both have not ... out of my comfort zone in this sense by forcing me to deal with my fear ... some of the slight mishaps I've had to deal with stemming from my brain

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... . Wow. I’m already half way done. I only have two more years to make the ... . And so one of my goals this year is to work on decision making. As the

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... ) response on it, reading a few chapters from the book The Beatles by Hunter ... songs on it, so it was interesting to listen to the album with fresh ears

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022