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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  that weekend and are still interested in traveling" - and on Friday April ... grad students excited to teach. Kids excited to learn on a weekend ... on their kid taking all the classes he or she wants to take (trust me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  genuine. I'm so happy that he is on the faculty of a place like MIT. Hearing ... dragged me out of my lab reports. The following costumes were assembled on ... if they found out I put this on the internet, so these goobers are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  335, the wonderful lounge-side 5-room on the 290-side third floor. My ... favorite things in my room. On the left wall above (click for a larger view) and on the upper left below is the painting my amazing then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  settling on my final topic. I asked myself if there is one person I could ... together nicely with the theme. Speech = Done! On the day of the qualifying ... international readers) February day in Boston. I got on my bike and just explored

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... hinge solely on one's ability to recapitulate concepts from the reading ... lost a few too many points on the final and wound up with a B+ for the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , who viewed me as a potentially embarrassing statistic on their otherwise ... . Perhaps it hadn’t. From the day they started preschool, they had been on ... than a summer break to pause, to think, to reflect on what they were

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  're tired and struggling to keep your eyes open and your focus on this pset ... on the other side of the wall is developing an indoor autonomous quad ... emails between 6:09 PM and 7:46 PM on Tuesday evening about Obama visiting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid ... time than most questions I encounter on an hourly basis. I started to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  Insurance Plan, and except for a semesterly figure on my tuition bill, that ... click on the link, i'll spell it out for you. FPI is $22,050 for a family ... very, very little money for a family). Adding on to this is the fact

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  . This is probably due to the fact that I'm not on campus and, while I ... , let's focus on one experience from this last year, a choice I keep ... humble about my test results. In 2.004 I was getting 90-95 percent on the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  on mitblogs; the bloggable fraction of my life has, since the start of ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up ... and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  : I spent as much on textbooks this semester as I spent on food*. And ... money this semester was spent on water (contained in fruits, vegetables ... stores on Massachusetts Avenue north of MIT instead of at LaVerde's in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December ... long hold times on tech support, arguing, and TWO reformats of my ... system into booting into the recovery partition on my hard drive even

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• 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 translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish grey light hung on the ceiling ... congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the ... Winehouse sticks out like I'm wearing a Tim the Beaver suit. Nina, on the ... the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  up on. So! Anonymous asks: Can you also give us some info about the ... , fans, refrigerators and so on around MIT area and how far away are they, how to get to these stores and so on...? Sure, Anon (can I call you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  delivered something like 8 or 9 Valentine's Day band-o-grams on the slushiest ... that site and saw that JVJ got eliminated first on The Amazing Race: All ... yentls" and "making fun of other people on camera". I mean, what better way

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  early, you can check out Matt's earlier post on the subject, or ask him ... pretty good pointers on the subject. Janice wonders: Hi Jess, I am a ... year has that qualification, but I could not help wondering on how much

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  class, it gets recorded on your transcript merely as a "P". If you get a D or an F, the class doesn't get recorded on your transcript -- it's as ... with him on the phone. All of this stuff was not great for my academic

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  . Some classes heavily discourage or forbid collaboration on work, though they are relatively uncommon. There's no set policy for all of MIT. On ... 've ever seen in that regard. Brianna also had a comment on that entry: "i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005