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  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... each of his blog entries with a snappy yet life-changing piece of trivia ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It ... , a land of glue, x-acto knives, mounds of paper, pencil and pens

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a ... tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... this was not one of those mornings. This was a curious morning indeed. I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... working on a project to remedy that — she’s putting together a collaborative map of MIT makerspaces throughout campus! Rima: The makerspace map is a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Instead, I take a lecture course, hashing out the basics. Differences ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... philosophy, which says that all "educated" people should have a common

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  should I do in order to know MIT better?" A great starting point for how ... Emeritus Mollie posted this helpful and interesting post to a discussion board recently; it is such a good start to answering your question that I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Painting and a trip into Boston

  

  Yesterday evening I came back from work to discover my friend Kim, a ... (which was her room when I was a frosh). The room should have not only been primered, but painted, a while ago, but I am a horrible and inexperienced

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... a long blog about both, but I felt it would be better to ... overall, the semester was a bit smoother than the pot-hole filled ride I was

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  challenging classes I’ve ever taken. It’s a natural followup to MIT ... processing power, limited running time, limited accuracy. As a simple example, which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Hello everyone! The following was written by a couple friends of ... program at MIT, and I myself got to know the program a little as their friend and as a friend of other ROTC members. Something interesting I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  with all great blog posts, we begin this one with a screencap: via ... . What you’re looking at is a screenshot from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & ... a foray into poems that the 21L (Literature) department has deemed

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  are some more updates on my travels thus far (I made it a "supersize ... rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A little something while you wait. Don't plan on doing work until we finish this.

  

  officially less than 4 days (OHMYGODDECISIONZ), over a 1000 of you will be ... with the phrase "On A Farm," which is connected to a bunch of boxes ... 's the game with a couple of solutions in it: Following? Okay, the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... I was right. A few weeks ago, I got this: Hi Chris, I hope this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate ... entirely by chance. I’m certainly not a Philosophy (Course 24) major, but so

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and ... I learned about student rush. It operates a bit differently based on

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  Charter School, signing in to get a "VISITOR" sticker, and slipping into a ... for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost a decade. I feel like I have been sent to Mars. For one, people at my

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  If I had a dollar for every body pillow I’ve purchased in the past six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... , getting a dollar for each body pillow I purchase is a rather inefficient way

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about pandemics and plagues in history 21H.000: History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics

  

  Pandemic, a biology lecture series on the coronavirus that anyone in the world can freely attend. One of my colleagues sent me a notice about ... its own sake and also for a deeper understanding of the present and the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 11, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  Oooooooohhhh boy. A new semester has begun! I know this post is kinda ... semester was a bit of a struggle. First of all, I got a little off ... time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020