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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... this reflects a general trend in my life, or is just a phase) so here ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  . 21W.021, also known as "MIT 150:Inside, Live",  is a CI-HW (Writing ... prompt that resulted in these two comics was a simple one, "take your role as a participant-observer at MIT and find a fresh way to present your

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  've always had open comments on every entry. These blogs aren't only a place ... 's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  After a stressful week of essays after essays, assignments after assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... incredibly valuable. A few years ago, back when I was Course 7 (that's Biology

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  year where we get to take vacation! So I did quite a bit of that - went to a few weddings, visited family and friends, and generally took time ... Bridge College Admissions Conferences that are hosted annually by QuestBridge - a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  first set foot on MIT's campus as an innocent, doe-eyed freshman over a year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim ... , but I feel a vicarious thrill seeing the same expression reflected in

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my level of anxiousness climbing, I stepped into a taxi with a fellow ‘15er

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  like accidentally drop a box of pipettes and cough every five minutes because apparently my immune system is taking a little vacation right now ... time here is at like 10:30 a.m. every morning (random much?), where line

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to ... maybe 4 to 5 equivalents of this amount of stuff: My stuff, looking a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Inventional YoYo what the what

  

  be for the next few days and weeks. So though I've got a bunch of ... , who was admitted to the class of 2015, is a professional yoyo-ist. Yoyo-er. The man has serious skills with a yoyo. He's already got plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  Alright, a quick peak out of blogger retirement today to share some ... one of your eyes, creating a 3D image. The 3D is cool, but irrelevant ... . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Concourse, of course or how to make the most of your freshman year at MIT

  

  Just the other day, I joined a handful of parents at my 15-yr-old's high school. We were there to listen to a presentation about a new ... required core classes in science, history, and math. One at a time, teachers

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  completion of the fall semester or second quarter (if your school uses a ... students already out of school. You do not need to have a hardcopy of your updated transcript sent by your school, and even if your school has sent a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... with a painful lack of time. My friend's Facebook status currently reads ... -playing thing too - which is good because it makes me seem a bit more normal

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Liebe Deutschland! A video entry - because I was too lazy to type

  

  (Sorry for the abrupt ending! I accidentally pushed the button to stop recording a few seconds before I was actually done speaking, haha)

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John ... . As you might have known, I am a violinist in MITSO, and I experienced his incredible conducting. I was in the presence of a musical genius

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... -making. (OK - a classmate just informed me that we could quite possibly be charged a lab fee ...but oh well, a sketchbook is a sketchbook!!! :P) The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  And we bring you more sketch! Watch . . . us

  

  This is what happens when we hook up a webcam to the server in our floor lounge. Say hi!

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  .341 project last fall.) All right, maybe "gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch. I ... my daily nonantics. Speaking of boring, I had a four-hour shift at ... when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010