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• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  was handed one sticker, no strings attached (not even a website to visit ... New Years? (No pressure, I'm probably going to invite a friend to sleep ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  ’t forgotten me, but here’s a quick review: I majored in physics and graduated in June. I’m currently on a one-year Fulbright Scholarship in Germany. After ... “excuse me,” entschuldigen, sounds like a sneeze.) Learning a new language

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  A few weeks ago we posted this video to announce our decision date, 3 ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... ," a fairly obvious nod to Hedwig et al from Harry Potter. A few years

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  this realization led me to a realization on realizations. When children ... different. I tried to get into a fifth class and didn't (it was too ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella ... Museum of Fine Arts). On the outside it seems like it’s a normal ... One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  hours on websites that take you as a spreadsheet of numbers whereas ... workload, afterschool clubs, and varsity sports, the amount that is on a ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of ... of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a ... ...* My decision to pick MIT over Rice-Baylor was based largely on the fact

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Like Never Before Kevin Rustagi '11 talks about the MIT LMC and then some.

  

  LMC (Live Music Connection). To be brief, the MIT LMC is basically a ... various other events. They have a (FREE!) CD out that's available on their website, as well as iTunes. Kevin gave me a copy of the CD, titled Like

  • by Celena C. '12
  • August 30, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  computers, better ways to power those computers, and even new ways to save ... , which was a nice surprise. Here's what some of them have been working on ... 'll probably be a part of these new things this year. In the middle of dinner

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  ://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-spain/ (which just a few months ago was a much uglier website, nice job on the ... MISTI gave me a list of websites to search for people looking for ... , which I had already been to.) I met with Alicia a few times to talk about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... Linguistics Group, a group that uses large-scale corpus studies to discover ... involves putting together a massive phonological corpus that draws on many

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... 't done an entry on MIT in a while, and these two things--reading World Cup

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham ... personalized signature for the new Fight Club 2 graphic novel, and a pre ... Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  ?! I'm sitting here, in my room, at my desk. It's nearly 11:30 pm on a ... wish I had more time to do. I actually have a list: 1. Visit the Museum of Science/Museum of Fine Arts - MIT students get in free to a lot of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit ... tweezers, replace the faulty LED with a new one. Then add a drop of flux to ... another piece of acrylic to make a screw on stand. [carousel image1

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  – even if I don’t follow every single tip I hear, it helps to hear new ways ... ="ugh I love Rowena sm, I even went to a meetup with her in pre-covid times ... perfectionists, at least a little bit. A quick survey of my friends suggested that

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Novartis

  

  Today, I went on a tour of the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical ... spiffy new building every time I walk to the supermarket or to Harvard and when I found out that they were giving a tour to people from the Bio

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic bomb. We'd play death

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  living in a universe of Organic Chemistry. To the point where Orgo and real ... materials. You have a whole toolbox of reactions to use. If you're able to ... you don't. Recently, I'm dealing with a new kind of synthesis problem

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018