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• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... by Cole Porter as a response to Oklahoma! The Gulf of Bothnia

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Diabolo, Pandora, and Bad TV Shows You figure out what they have in common, 'cause I sure as heck don't know.

  

  more time to do some blogging! Here is a random smattering of things I've been wanting to blog about. THE SHARPE BROTHERS A while back, on the ... have to make money somehow, right? (Actually, I don't pay the fee

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • June 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  . They are also teachers of a type when they talk to each of you during ... something like a teacher when you talk to them. And this is how... I know ... about you and you get to teach them about what makes you different and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  ’s quite easy to stare at myself and ramble off changes i wish i could make ... -- one ready to metamorphose into a butterfly the other ready to cocoon for ... to the ground and a deep red blankets your feet. There is no amount of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  education has been compared to taking a drink from a firehose, but that reason is not to overwhelm you with knowledge and make you want to shout ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... received a week or two after the deadline will be reviewed and will not make

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just wanted to talk to my mom about putting me in a gifted program ... actually help him figure out how long he needed to cut a certain piece of ... about 3 weeks ago) to get straight A's, but despised every minute of AP

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  may or may not be able to read without being on a college wifi network ... ’s, a crêpe and sandwich bistro. The Broad has its own entrance to Sebastian’s, a daily temptation that I am proud to say I have only twice

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... . My other close professor friend got to know me because I took a lab ... to help students who didn't understand as well.) So just being a good

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  from a while back) Oy! Welcome to the much-belated “what I’m doing this ... /weekend (maybe both, I’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend). Just kidding ... , where I proceeded to make all sorts of plans to explore the town, which

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ... noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated ... would be fair to call Nick a palindrome enthusiast; indeed, also a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  other side of the room. Anyway, the TV room is a cool place to hang out ... -distraction walls. It's a good place to study without being tempted by your computer or TV or friends. It's also a good place to look for course bibles

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... even more Q&A fun. And finally tonight, what better link to leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  pleasure of it”: video games! “What do you want to major in”: 18C, with a ... started a nonprofit in our town to teach young girls math! “Challenge you ... it was next to Massachusetts. That seemed to ring a bell for them. Now

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to ... are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  to see Fun Home (we didn't group it with #7 for the sake of making the ... ) 26) Program and tickets from when we went to see A Chorus Line in the ... was reallly good and really interesting to see a show that highlighted

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  've learned in linguistics applied to Tagalog. Phonology is the study of a ... in a language's words. This semester, I'm taking 24.901 Introduction to ... , exactly, is a phoneme? There's substance to this question. For example, when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Telemarketing: Apply to be a Tech Caller! The ... to declare a major. After exploring all of the departments, I was excited to become a part of the Massachusetts Institute of Taxidermy's Class

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011