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• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  overarching politics, although the former is on a grander scale. Turns out one ... of the arts scholars on the trip had, and gave us a synopsis during the ... in return gifts him with her magic horse. Siegfriend then goes off on a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... open problems as extra credit on problem sets, so it's nice that ours are ... -IOI freshman on my hall. Small world! 21M.380: Recording Techniques and Audio

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  could try on panniers, which are undergarments worn in the 18th century ... a poster pasted on the Department of pathology’s notice board about her talk on aneuploidy, I just had to go. Firstly, I just learnt about

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Rural Development, an Indian NGO. Rickshaw Bank loans rickshaws on a micro ... and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... strongest grip on the sensor. After the Americans, Luke and Jeff, had soundly

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  spent most of finals week living on Pop-Tarts; if I couldn’t even feed ... that a lot of our friends recommended. It was freezing. We got on the ... , and got on again on the other side. The tattoo parlor looked

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  welcome to MIT! I hope to see you on campus during CPW. To those of you who ... only on schoolwork, but on scholarship applications as well. There was ... versions of that application, asked for several others' opinions on my essays

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  , especially since the professor wrote “Yes, it’s ICE” on the top of the board on ... bunker” or “the dungeon,” as she worked on ICE. Each weekly pset built upon ... days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... with web development and better coding practices. On Friday night, I set ... think I might have accidentally become a tea/coffee connoisseur. I was on

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... exams. I’ll need them eventually, right? I put on socks. I realize I’m running out of socks. I spend an hour picking out socks on the Internet. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  Guest post today from Mark F. '15, who was working on this essay for ... in a wood cabin. As the raindrops patter on the window, you seek ... Drenched If you are reading this, you are lost on the path to MIT. Your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  year. Since then, Prof. Maier's book had gone on to win: "10 Best ... putting the finishing touches on her book when I took her class Spring 2010 ... so well after working with her on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake ... terrifying. For almost five years of my life I had been set on this one path ... (“with a focus on Biology,” I said, since I’m course XB) could do for each

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on ... sprawled on the ground, chair practically on top of him. Long story short ... that this was in fact the case - and we limped on our merry way back to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

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

  

  check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my ... book drives before, but the stuff that was going on here made it seem ... Arena on CNN. He delivered a great talk on the government's role in

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

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  title of this entry. If you haven't thrown up yet, hang on. My friends ... , celebration, and other shindig going on; if you've been living under a blogrock ... mostly stopped arriving, we were greeted by a video on the absolutely giant

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  decision you’ve made/ You’ve put a stamp of approval on every part of the ... important to hold on to your dreams. Here’s my anectodal addendum: It was ... much time on something, commit to it” (He was trying to make me explain

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  background on your topic", stripping down the details but not the concepts in ... 't get bored. I hope we don't actually get graded on the second criterion ... far through my gruesome post. On Tuesday, a local farm sets up shop in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  social creatures, and learning from what our friends do and taking on those ... these activities, inviting us to climb at MIT's bouldering wall or go on trips to caves on the weekends. As another example, there are loads of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered on his ninetieth year. The meeting included almost every member ... public in New England to give way, on the ground that the Union should be

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011