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• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  once per equinox now. You should go back and read my old entries, when I ... tomorrow. Look, guys, I know I'm doing a biofuels UROP and everything, and I ... Susan Hockfield, but I'm sick of hearing about global warming when I check

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  of my dorm. I usually go through about $800 per semester on my card. 4 ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of chocolate cake.) Burning questions: 1. I floated the idea that there might be

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  general feeling of panic. I, myself, only got about 5-6 hours of sleep each day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do ... 're probably wondering why I have so much work when there are no tests until

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... been retrofitted with an i7 processor, 256 GB of SSD storage, and 16GB of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and bones just like everyone else -- but I was wrong." I don't know if this ... more chromatograms to run or users' manuals to peruse. So I think that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... feelings tend to sneak into my experiences at MIT, but I think I've found little ways to fight them off at this point. But, back to IAP. I wanted

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  . I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all changed when I went to Next Gen Summit. I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  looking for new friends to make. DropBox, Facebook, Google, Apple, Space ... chat up celebrities. I had a lengthy discussion with Aurora Flight Sciences about their work with CubeSats (Google CubeSats because CubeSats are

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  It's unfair, I admit: I've rhapsodized aplenty about Manhattan's food ... is that one year ago, I vowed to leave no restaurant within walking ... pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  consistently over 30 hours per week running assays and getting results. I used to ... yeah, I haven't written a blog in too long anyways, so I owe all of you one. :p Truth is, I have not been doing much this semester other than

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  I can remember, back when I was applying to MIT, there were two huge perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... just downright cool about having an @mit.edu address. Now, while I don

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  I'm currently in Missoula, Montana: hometown of ze boyfriend. When I arrived, he suggested that I borrow his sister's mountain bike for the summer. I hopped on the bike with the following points in mind: The last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  In my sophomore fall, I wrote the art of trying new things, where I wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... class is honestly the one I'm least excited about because I really, really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  pay $18 per meal at dining halls? Am I smart? Am I creative?  How do ... my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I ... my shock when I began college and discovered many new, unfamiliar

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... of knowledge of the game. I've been watching a full game almost every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  completely stacked Google Calendar seems to indicate that I'll have much less ... I'm excited about the fall! Since sophomores aren't on campus, I won't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  As per my previous post, I've been going through a lot of shit! But there's also a lot of incredibly fun and freeing things that I've been doing this semester that I figured I should talk about. Parties I turned

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  You know what I thought I was good at after getting into MIT? You know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the thing I would definitely do well at even at this really hard institution

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On How To Approach Your Interview Advice on how to approach your interview.

  

  .    Today I am going to offer my advice on how to approach the ... little research on the web, and think of some questions to ask. Remember

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 12, 2005