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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  on the blogs’ 10th birthday festivities. And while I hardly have any ... really, I’ve spent the last two days working on a script for an episode on ... ) Walk to work. It really depends on the day, since I do production and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  with pikan and 5w alums, one of whom sent me this paper on why bubbles ... , incomprehensibly massive on a personal scale yet in turn cosmologically insignificant. (I blame it on Yan and on ultra-dense social subnetworks encouraged by

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a ... themed concert by the Boston Pops orchestra. He sat on stage and told us ... , sitting on stage at Symphony Hall.” “Pops” is a portmanteau of “popular

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  me in on who each model was: "that's the town masseuse!", for example ... to imagine how many lives are playing out on the ground. There are so many people on Earth. By the way, Montana is stunning: - The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  vanished to college, taking on new spheres of life. I grew to resent staying ... on rocks all day. My cooking skills diversified somewhat, extending ... apply to MIT. I read my acceptance letter on March 14 at 11:30PM. I was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility ... . There was also that time when one of our professors turned us loose on the ... talk to them, as it turns out that nobody at all has nailed this one. On

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  now on. (Restrictions apply.) I can be pretty hard on myself ... mistake on an assignment, and magnify it a ton. That's when the "I'm not ... today on the subject. In between her uncontainable excitement over - of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  Finally back on the blogs, and it feels so good! (I'd normally start ... demanding. I think I might have found myself running on the MIT treadmill a ... s, you'll see what I mean soon!). On most weekdays, you can find me in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  [By Miren Bamforth ‘15] On behalf of the four other freshmen ... endeavors have included sitting in on Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler ... different from stereotypical contemporary art (i.e. a painting hanging on a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  little freshman psetting group) are stuck on a problem. Options? (1) Keep ... up until 3 or 4am on a regular basis; you check, and sure enough, the light in his room is on. You're scared of knocking, though. He's an MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... to refrain from the obvious commentary on the drive through Iowa-I come ... there. Except to say that the radio station we were listening to on our

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade ... , working on an application that eventually quadrupled the sampling rate for ... first ripples. Outside of the McDonald's on Massachusetts Avenue stood

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  was planning on doing today. She told me, 'My Physics pset ... think it's about time. I've alluded to the Burchards program on and off ... , Political Science "Three Perspectives on China's Rise: Threat, Opportunity, or

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  Dinner! I live in this really small living group on campus (smaller than ... us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of ... sign on, you won't regret the journey :D THURSDAY, 9.30-midnight

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  for this week was to think back on our lives, pick out a memory that ... , mustard-yellow couches, perfect for me to jump on when I got tired of my ... four feet shorter than the tallest branch on the plum tree, even with the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  RETRIEVER SITTING ON THE FLOOR OF THE CLASSROOM 3) HOLY CRAP I AM TOTALLY ... postdoc at the Whitehead Institute, 7.342 assigns two papers a week on some ... -linked traits and sex-specific areas on the X chromosome. it's a super small group

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  magazine and starts ranting and bashing on all the non-Helvetica typefaces ... viewed on Thursday or Friday nights. A typically-MIT* trajectory of ... Perseids meteor shower, like a celestial garbage truck stopping by Earth on a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  on how awesome MIT is. But that’s old news to me, because it seriously feels like I was a senior a decade ago. I was burning time on facebook the ... 17th. Yes, that means that while you’re all on campus not sleeping and

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Journal of Negative Results, among other things Absurdities I encounter while livin' my life.

  

  tell, I tripped over myself before sliding down six steps on my right ... combination of awesome scheduling skillz and sheer luck on my part, this semester I have no classes on Fridays and a total of one midterm and one

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... yet. Then it was 6:30. It had just begun to dawn on us that we were

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008