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• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  're a concert pianist working on her third novel. (They'll never know ... 's almost nonexistant hair to set on fire. That's when you see the warning. "NO GELS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE BROUGHT ON ANY AIRCRAFT." It is impossible

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  through Union Square Park, you probably noticed Belinda and Joey. On most ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask them to keep it down. On others, Joey took a trip to the emergency room

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot ... on biology-related projects at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical ... "there's so much going on that you're bound to find something that will get

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  late night I really mean early morning. I did have help on one occasioin ... of people had questions my entry on tests and reference sheets. There ... allowed to use a cheat sheet." Mollie even wrote a whole entry on tests

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  counselors, admissions-related vendors, etc.) descend on a city (Tampa this ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... on how best to age, cut, and cook beef. Amazing dinner. After dinner

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  to poke around a bit before heading over to 7-012 (a room I pass on a ... ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... few highlights. The note on this door wouldn't normally be amusing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  SPECIAL DOUBLE BONUS ENTRY!! I didn't actually write this entry on Tuesday, but it's dedicated to Tuesday, because on Tuesday morning I pulled ... really cool article. Then on midnight of the 12th day of the festival, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty ... ; some new ones will be added. We've hired some student "experts" on ... something you do for the pleasure of it." That question, on the MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  States, and how it related to the promotion of unity and understanding on the Indian subcontinent in the film. Peace has been on my mind a lot ... dropping an atomic bomb on Falluja. Sadly, I'm not making this up). It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  the info on the slides (but not all of it?). Already, I don't know if I should take my own notes, write on the slides, or write on the notes handout. Then the professor writes on the blackboard during class, none of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  ways of saying goodbye joint post with CJ '23!

  

  . from everything goes on: But if I was gone tomorrow, would the waves crash on? Is it selfish that I’m happy as we pass the setting sun? from goodbye: So long, goodbye Hey, here's a fun idea How 'bout I sit on the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  , filling my body like helium. All the energy would leave me and I'd lie on my ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a ... weekends with things to do and meetings to go to. SIPB on Mondays, Squares on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  . Today, [annotation note="If you were on campus for an information session ... -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can ... will be a public livestream on mit.edu to introduce her to the community

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  calendar, to guarantee each month has at least one three-day weekend. On most ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th ... going on around MIT. For example, today the MIT Museum had an MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r ... suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  experiment with illustrated formats on the blogs. On the other hand, writing is ... meant putting down whatever mess going on in my head into words and making ... get to overshare my life on the internet :D.  This year feels like a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  as Patriots' Day, which falls on the third Monday of April ... moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... bottle at the water fountain by the elevator on 4W and then shove it in my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  submitted my manuscript [1]  related to our project on protein structure ... . Within two days, I found myself in a conference room at the office on the ... brought up on my screen. Some were easy typos to resolve, but some of them

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated ... palindromic practitioner. Most notably, on February 20th of 2002 (02 ... of 202 inscribed copies on New Years Day, 2002. On February 20th, 2002

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  : The weather on campus turned beauuuutiful this week (just in time for ... lovely springy pictures. This was drawn on one of the public use blackboards in Stata! (If you haven't seen it, more background on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019