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• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  versions of a lot from new frosh, is "I love my temp living group and am ... decision will allow you to make a stronger contribution to it. Let me try an ... contribute to their own school of thought, they just repeat a diluted version

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  Biomolecular Systems on Friday morning. In an effort to procrastinate, I was ... contemplate what it is like to be a “woman at MIT.” The only differences that I ... ’s Lounge (a room with some couches, a kitchen, and beds to sleep in) and have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  my professor’s offer to have one-on-one office hours with him and a TA ... our adventure at, curling up on a lounge couch to watch some stupid TV ... asleep on the way back from a grownup party, pretending not to wake up when

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  idea of using an oscilloscope to render a video game is not new. Many ... problems and allow me to load new songs on the fly. This was indeed the ... digital instrument played on a digital instrument! Some background Guitar

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  understand you on such a deep, fundamental level, and then... Poof. Four years ... -too-familiar-yet-not-familiar-enough campus. I'm just some girl who overshared a tad bit too much on some ... blathered on and on about the optimal way to make money in game and how to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... in a non-dining dorm or you’re not on a meal plan and you want to learn ... . Eat them off a paper towel. No dishes to wash! You should really work on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  the surface or "bloom," causing it to take on a whitish sheen or oily ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Religious Discussions Yes, there are non-atheists at MIT. But they still like science jokes.

  

  IAP, as you might have heard, is a fun and exciting time to be at MIT, because there are about a million events going on every day. I've been ... considers herself spiritual but often has a hard time believing things on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 24, 2008
• 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 / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  practically fused with a shelf due to all the liquid on it, a Tupperware of ... on a Wednesday for NO REASON—it was so good lol walking to 7/11 late ... tedious to outright AWFUL and i'm still recovering from struggling through a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  course, our very own Admissions blogs and MIT websites. This took a ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... or two of these links will be useful. Many of them are to posts on my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute

  

  a few days later with some of the other stuff that happened on Monday ... Museum took advantage of the day to announce their new home at...314 Main Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  . Just like Calculus, I feel it's almost like learning a new language in ... mechanisms - but then turn to a pset or some solved examples and feeling ... exciting and a welcome break away from campus (although, on the bright side

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer club sports?

  competitions, and some clubs have sent athletes to compete on the international ... have numerous accomplishments and aim to help each student improve in ... to everyone who fits within the eligibility guidelines. All skill
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  months ago, Lydia asked me, “do you want to write a guest post on your math ... Floderer gave a talk and a workshop to a packed auditorium on how to crumple ... also co-authored a paper on this system with my advisor, and travelled to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... relied a lot on One Direction for my happiness, using them as motivation to ... Autoethnography - a reflection on your own fan experience Normative Assessment - a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  , physicists, and so on — have a cut-and-dry, formulaic way of approaching ... patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a ... experiment would be to take a person, give them the vaccine, and see if they

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  psets for those 12 classes. I choose which classes to stick with based on which classes have psets due which I do not want to finish. I also have a ... of them. But I’m extremely averse to dropping classes later on in the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  Happy Valentine's Day! Answers to questions received through 2PM on ... sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  didn’t. “We’ve gotten to know every student on our waitlist at a very ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and ... , who, as an applicant, was a frequent commenter on the blogs; was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020