Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  A couple weekends ago, the average age on campus suspiciously ... flooded the Student Center and Infinite. I'd almost forgotten what a pre ... brother, Ryan (who insists on being called a pre-teen). There are very few

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  night before. It's a well-kept secret. But I have proof. Behold the two ... 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you ... every single student is a massive super genius. (Proof that I am not is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  several peoples' minds: Blogging. Whenever I get a brilliant idea and just ... MovableType publishing platform. Instead of being a website like blogger or livejournal, MovableType is designed to fit into a webpage that already exists

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston ... you come to Boston you will see names to a lot of new cities, cities ... aren't careful you'll get marked a tourist instantly if you mispronounce

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  was all a little much. Fortunately, I met some other awesome prefrosh! Becca '12 and I at Meet the Bloggers Tim '12 and I stuck in a knot at ... journeyed to the Student Center to Meet the Bloggers. Snively was a hit with

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... here so long that I've forgotten what it's like to be in love with a ... that. Except Keri just got a radio show, so there may be hope for this

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is ... Rockwell Cage (W33). This event is a lot of fun, and you'll see many familiar admissions faces here along with a performance by the Logs. Following this, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday ... particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class ... television in front of my treadmill. Sure, I lost a little by not hearing Alan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used ... ). This represents a great step forward for "green chemistry", reducing ... , a typical sophomore-level Chemistry class. Not only that, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  allowed by the FCC, Turner and the lawyers for both stations found a legal ... playlists... here's a sampling: Marilee Jones Dean of Admissions Wednesday ... a Hound Dog (Elvis) * Candy Man (Roy Orbison) * He's So Fine (Chiffons

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  2 types of games. Finite games where the goal is to win on a ... – here I lay a small piece of this rich tapestry! I see what you have done ... , and the realistic impulse to be a part of and be recognized by the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  relationships”. There’s a lot of depth behind both of these contributions, and as ... , physicists, and so on — have a cut-and-dry, formulaic way of approaching ... patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  of a fear that I wouldn't do it "right" or I wasn't "smart enough" to ... minor, it's a really big character development for me. To start off, I ... . I eventually found a post that recommended I downloaded a tiling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... suddenly the unknown. So if I had a time machine, I’d tell myself that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After MIT what i'm doing...etc.

  

  blogging. Which will be a sad day. ---- So I'm now living in THE NYC, on ... ), and you have class with everyone else all the time. A major difference ... being 23. I'm 22, so I fit just below the average age of my class. It's a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  to stress or due to a (relatively) healthy sleep schedule my senior ... EST. I sigh a breath of relief and think to myself "maybe-- now that I've figured out the puzzle-- maybe now I will have a shot of being admitted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  "make your own python". i'm having a lot of fun thinking about ... uninteresting. 6.1420 [6.054] fixed parameter and fine-grained computation. a ... contrivance where students take turns presenting topics, usually following a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  In less than a week I'll be hopping on my flight back to Boston, and ... [annotation note="is this okay to say in a blog? let's hope so ... -journaling-sleeper-agent in my brain kicked in orientation week freshman year, deciding that a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  On Tuesday, the MIT Institute Community and Equity Office hosted a ... this vigil was a compelling and moving event where speakers shared their ... . You can watch a [annotation note='We can only easily embed YouTube clips

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  group at the Media Lab put together a VERY COOL THING (that seems to be ... ’s a node graph that shows you who sends you emails and who sends emails ... person in a given time period, and also the people who they’ve introduced

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017