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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... getaways. I'm also my own best friend; I am a daydreamer. A surefire way to ... something or another. I have a propensity for puns and humor that makes people

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  through writing alone. To all seniors: wow. I empathize with you a ton. I ... fully, and much more. This led to a relatively fun creative writing ... greatly for your submission to Annalen der Physik. After a careful review of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  green holders on my bench) to make labwork a bit less depressing when it ... Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but ... not know this (kudos to you if you know what this is as a high schooler

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  they can, that they won’t have a chance to do their best because of all ... made a difference in our process – who you are, your approach to life and ... developed a dedicated COVID-19 FAQ topic to provide the most up-to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  words: “Do you wanna… …build a snowman?” Yes! Yes! And so we set to work. He showed me how to create the base—start with a hard-packed ball ... him Olaf. But we had to. We returned to Random, cutting through a bunch

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical ... weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people ... ’ve been spending a lot of time in the bunk room this IAP, trying my best to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the ... -defined problems fed to you by a benevolent manager, then you’re in luck because the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  rejections don't seem to fit a pattern -- one person was accepted at School A ... accepted to the MIT biology grad program. Just today, I was talking with a ... in the 70s, so we proceeded to have a lovely chat about MIT housing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  —usually after lunch to make sure people on observing duty can sleep a bit—we go ... together and input to a script which runs them automatically. So, you can let ... , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  to get a sneak preview of a sold-out opera ten years in the making; but ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor ... sinews that make us human. “What is this ‘death’? Is it a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... been working in teams to design, build, and control robots to assist a ... drive up to a cabinet while navigating around obstacles and choose a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  through a series of challenges (an application, as it were) to test their ... question to ask, and a very difficult one to answer. Part of the reason it ... convince to apply. What matters is making sure that we bring smart students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  , although I guess that actually makes a lot more sense than "lynn." I seem to ... cosecant of something so I'd have a reason to say "arccsch," which should ... have demonstrated, there are a lot of awesome UROP experiences to be had

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... (a well-balanced diet if you know where to look). I used the money that ... .   Within the past year, I flew to North Carolina on a propeller

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing ... devices here. I had a sort of spiritual reaction to being surrounded by

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  though, to meet me, that is. You know where I live. Here a special shoutout ... in a while. What have I been up to? For one, I went to West Virginia ... like a maniac, made two overnight trips to Connecticut in the same week

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  year, then team Captain, Val (MIT ’15) and I decided we wanted to make a ... , or to put it another way, a total wuss. I avoid compromising situations, whether it be going to a party where I don’t know many people, or refusing

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  to make a snowman, and no one seems to mind. [] Punting with the ... transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... Sarah and I always escaped to the park.  One year we made a daily pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021