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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  Finals ended over a month ago, so quite frankly, I have no excuse for my disappearance from the blogosphere. I’ve been meaning to post a ... a little anemic right now (maybe it’s heat exhaustion. Or maybe it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... up to:   (1) 2.670 (Mechanical Engineering Tools) A class!  But

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops ... UROPs/internships have finished, so why not go and learn a thing or two

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  (Looking for a CPW Post? Read Rachel's! Looking for retreat ... : everyone should travel* at least once a month (from here on abbreviated as ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  they belong. Suddenly we were interrupted by the all-male a capella group ... , who ran into the lecture hall like a superhero. “We’re here to deliver a ... , in unison, “Hi Madeline.” One of the boys kneeled. “We actually have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  late at night after watching a couple episodes of my favorite TV show and curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  A few students pointed me towards this piece in the Wall Street ... “development cases,” will argue that this makes the school a better place for the ... generations by forming a sort of intergenerational club. Meanwhile, Rick

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  of third grade, when after a few minutes of reading from a picture book ... classroom had a preliminary spelling test. The first biochemistry recitation had a suspiciously young, suspiciously energetic recitation instructor

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  . I'll save the sappy gushing for a later post though. Most people ... lets take a peek into my day:   6.002x (Circuits and Electronics ... dropped it), but the best part is that there's a roughly 1.2:1 ratio of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot fully explicate, this semester has been a blur, passing by faster than I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  Leadership Laboratories (ELLs), and one thing I’ve realized since I became a second-year GEL student (hereafter referred to as a “GEL 2”) is that the ELLs take a lot of behind-the-scenes planning. ELLs are two

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... 's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... 've got a 5.12 p-set, an 8.02 p-set, and a 9.00 test - all to be taken or to ... that "thunk" is actually a word. I hope they meant it was onomatopoetic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... was a little confused. Why not just “leadership?” Is this a leadership program designed specifically for engineers, or is there really a difference

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a ... . I brought my Mamiya RB67—a beautiful, entirely mechanical

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  Undergraduate Math Office relevant? Two reasons. First off, I'm a student grader ... . Each semester, the Math Department (and most other majors at MIT) hire a ... every week. Because 18.02 was my favorite class when I was a first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  and cross the Harvard Bridge without getting knocked over by a militant ... down a ramp that winds straight into the lushest pad of greenery ever seen outside of a salad that contains neither fruit, nor croutons, nor

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  out about the MIT sororities before going to CPW, so this was a perfect ... fraternities are right across the river, accessible by a short walk or a ride on ... them. The first night at CPW, there was a welcome ceremony and festival

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  Let me start with a confession. Last year, if you had told me that I ... . Throughout my entire high school career, I always considered myself a pretty average guy. Sure, I worked hard in my classes, I joined a bunch of clubs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007