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• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... , the last time I wrote, I talked about my work at a tribal-rural hospital ... my report, said my good-byes, and took a lottt of pictures with doctors

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You ... : Last year, my brother's second-grade class had a unit on Flat Stanley (if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  ), I always thought of myself as more of a writer than a mathematician. I ... coming to an understanding of a text through the writing process itself. I ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  a classmate calling studio “a time warp” – you just don’t know how ... that you have a general spatial understanding of where studio is, here ... a puppy calendar on the glass wall by my workspace… Mess, mess, mess

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  QUOTE: "My advice to a high school student interested in science as a ... about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior considering a career in science would be to close the science textbook for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... blocked from memory. Any sleep I lost was never found; TGIF took on a whole new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... flier miles would've been a good idea.) I spent the last week and a half ... see MIT for the first time as a real place and not just a picture in a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  unmistakable weavings of a live saxophone. When the game disbanded I followed the sound. At the bottom of the steps of 77 Mass Ave was a lone saxophonist ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  until Thursday, May 21. It is the absolute last day I can accept a thesis ... thesis. Have a great day! [Course Administrator] As of right now, I have ... and Pixel Overflow, Readout Noise, A/D Converter Nonlinearity

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  might know from the handy banner above, I am a Course 4 (Architecture ... Planning) and really want to pursue a minor but probably won't due to time ... requires, after six core subjects, a choice of one of five concentrations

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... approaches zero. Recent themes of mine have been the 250% Vitamin A Study Break ... one. Once, I also took a study break from studying biology by studying

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  who applied for EA got a chance to contact your EC and have an interview. So now that all the interview reports are being filed, it's a good time ... would be the point exactly? Your interview report shouldn't be just a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week MIT: It's so dangerous, you'll have to sign a waiver.

  

  A little bit ago, a prospective student wanted some insight on what a typical day is like for an MIT student. Although that's a very good question ... computing to practicing for the upcoming performance of A Midsummer Night

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... time riding in a group, and I'm still a pretty novice cycler. ... About ... cream. A bit afterwards, I began to realize we had gone pretty far and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember ... ends Let's celebrate Remember a year in chain email spam Remember the ... refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty ... novel) and, of course, finals. Easier said than done? Yeah, just a little ... forward to this weekend. Earlier tonight, a handful of friends and I went to

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

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  On Tuesday night, Diana '08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch ... me a piece. Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus ... automatically prints what's called a "header page" before all of your stuff. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... wanted a small table to put in my room, but Rick decided to go all out, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two short stories My last three weeks in a nutshell.

  

  I've never thought of myself as a sorority girl. In fact, I ... was convinced that joining a sorority was not the way to go. Anyway, my ... in the vein of bashing sororities indiscriminately, I wanted a valid

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 24, 2007