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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.

  

  better this semester than last (*grin*), so that's a nice feeling. All that's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share. I walked out of my room one day to discover a huge mess. Well, it may

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  kidding, but since we do have a lot of numbering systems at MIT, and since ... , and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you! ...if you're a girl) and to lead a tour of my UROP lab. But the one thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." Ahhh, New York City, winning the ... Station--either grab the Chinatown Bus or a Greyhound. With the easily ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin-Xin asks, "Hi, I need a bike (damn Simmons). I hear there are bike auctions ... ?" Excellent question, Xin-Xin. I'm not much of a cyclist, but I looked at my

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... be a little more thorough than the average MIT student would go, but not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  There’s a clear, one-to-one correspondence between the semesters at ... psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... , and you spend anywhere between 10 and 30 hours a week together

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... valleys and mountaintops alike with a sharp, consuming pink and rivers grow ... elementary school and worked my way through a beautiful collection of nature

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  a few weeks ago i had a job interview. we had some extra time at the end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  in, i also read through all the course materials for a few other ... cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  .nano pixels developing a love for pictures, reverb

  

  Street, near Kendall (I think)[/caption] While snapping this picture, a ... ? You should write something about that. So on a day where [annotation note="Definitely did not sit in front of a computer for hours, feeling

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

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... engineers (Cathy, Katherine, Tara, and I) embarked on a daring journey into

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... him by name when I passed by in the hallway. Now, I’m in a big room scarfing down bacon and coffee with over a hundred other representatives from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... , screaming for my mom. Muddy water pounced on my legs with icy strength. A few ... consolation gift she had promised me. You probably think falling into a gutter

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  Hello homies. It's been a while, right? I feel like I start off every ... you'll see that my 2013 Pi Day was equally exciting, though in a totally different way. Actually, I had a week that was a little nuts. Shall we recap

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Hey guys, This guy tried to guilt-trip me into writing a blog, but yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the

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

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  The fifth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is as good a time ... professors teach? Call me naive, but I didn't even *think* about this at a top

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  Today, I have a great idea. Recently I had a conversation with a ... notes, laughed about it, and felt a lot better after mutually admitting ... closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  ...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim ... being a computer science major again. Why? Well, I slightly blame the atmosphere of MIT -- a good majority of my friends are CS majors and always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020