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• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  on campus before heading off to Israel. Winter training basically ... ) Back on campus, IAP was in full swing. On campus, IAP is a time when ... team. I went to some seminars on GIS and Transportation Planning, which

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  , you're well on your way to knowing how to survive some crazy snow ... dressed for tropical weather all goes a long way. On top of that, the rooms ... on DVD, and enough Easy Mac and Poptarts to use as food. To play it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  group on campus called the MIT Outoors Club that caters to the ... car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... been crammed full like my carry-on. In fact, I just returned from a trip

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my ... forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... criteria, on the cheap. Yeah, I'm picky. One day this summer, the very

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times ... -time messaging. As she wrote on her blog, a hallmate once told her that "M.I.T. is ... embracing student blogs on their Web sites, seeing them as a powerful

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  developing world on their effects on public health. Plus every week we learn ... lantern. 'Nuff said. So then, after all that, hopefully (knock on wood), I ... . June 6 is moving day. I was on the phone with my mom the other day and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  sure. For example, on my first test of the year I got two standard ... a standard deviation below. I didn't actually score average on a test ... actually wears on you. Really wears on you. Ask anybody who knows me, I came

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  glass shelves with fluorescent lights on the inside. They were called ... -Swedish-while-still-using-words-that-sound-like-English fashion. They were also on clearance, and thus marked down from $70 to $10 ... go out. On the one end, DMX travels on top of a protocol RS-485. That

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  meanwhile, but leaning toward course 9 with a focus on molecular ... 't intend to take any computer-related classes, any engineering classes (hands-on ... was a good target for being changed because, in truth, I was only on the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  My approximate CPW schedule Thursday liveblog 8:55am: I arrive on ... ." Prof. Drennan: "You will never do an acid-base titration at MIT." Goes on to give examples on MIT chemistry research. Prof. Tim Jamison's lab can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... last bid to say goodbye. But what if you held off on all that? Sounds ... returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that dream project

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... our two-hour set? What if we both sounded like bumbling idiots on the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... deter her career. "Some people don't make as much of an impact on things ... direct information traffic on the Internet -- earned her the nickname

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question ... due to proteins and oils sloughed off the skin of the people on the ... water (...I hope) when I turn the faucet on high to fill a glass, but the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... got one of their top three choices). When you arrive on campus, a period ... lottery, he stated that he was going to die if he didn't live on 3rd East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  voracious reader, so I snuck it out of her room and read it. And loved it. On ... other factors going against me. I was dead-set on attending Ohio State ... National Merit scholar, so I knew I'd have to do really well on the PSAT. So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  home from MIT on Saturday, 3/14/2020, after getting kicked off of campus ... ’ll all look back on this period in time. How the pain, the anger, the fear will be remembered. How I’ll look back on it all. Who even knows how long

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  On [annotation note="home of the economics department, and the place where I spend most of my time on campus these days"]the fourth floor of E ... , one urinal, and two toilets, and as 80 people have offices on that floor

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  weekly readings and labs. The labs are typically my biggest assignment on ... any questions that may arise. Additionally, 20% of your grade on each ... code. Right now, we’re working on coding up n-dimensional Micesleeper (a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025