Search

Search Results

• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  walk freely at night.” from The Journals of Sylvia Plath I am in New ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and ... vulnerability lies not in my habit of smiling at strangers, but in two things: my

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... waves ever so nicely at me. You rock, Ava. Saif’s wife is in the front ... ’s been fully booked, and that the restaurant is unable to steal from us at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... did not look closely. No one looked closely. At ten o’clock she walked ... outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  who want to start cooking at MIT. Motivation The most basic meal plan ... to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  aren’t classes? Are you resilient? Will you fall apart at your first few ... essay. It’s conventional to put background or context information at the ... conclusions and new information at the end. Sometimes people put a powerful

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  freshman advising seminar 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I’m flabbergasted at ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the ... ’d notice unless someone told you, or you spent a lot of time looking at the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  included about half of the astrophysics faculty at Caltech and MIT, which ... database of acronyms. I vividly remember that Professor Max Tegmark at MIT ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  eternity of restless, test-less days. I woke up at 7 AM. A marvelous savoring ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most ... at Subway that I had on March 12th of 2005, the crumbs of which I have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  at it. No, really! Okay, so unlike some people in the dorm who live ... worse room than the year before. At this point everyone thought I was ... before (furniture rearrangement). Also, there is one very lousy window at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  decentralized. So, for example, if there was a professor at MIT from a particular ... to meet with representatives from Telefonica at the European Career ... Vehicles division at Telefónica I+D (I+D = Investigación y Desarollo, or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we ... health is a strategic national investment, and that we’re at a tipping ... health discovery to health.” She emphasized that bench research (done at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  'm sitting at my kitchen table, eating leftover baked ziti I just heated up. I ... arrive at Hunt Headquarters. Somebody give me something to do.... Friday ... !!! Saturday, 22:06 So far I've looked at ANOTHER horrendous crossword, some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  interesting or something, yeah yeah, sarcasm, she's okay at it, whatever..." and ... worked and no numbers at all to back up my assertion, but it's good enough ... , Craig, hasn't been around much at all this summer. I can't hold it against

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  perfect score. And that’s not what I mean at all. If you’re stressing over ... someone is going to look at your application and say, “Oops, well, if only ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  daughter applied to MIT was at the recommendation of our physician, who was ... , there's an extrememly wide variety of people at MIT. Your dad's stereotype ... -- the acceptance rate for MIT kids at the top several medical schools is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  engineering curriculum at MIT, which is structured to hit you with most of your ... say that at chemical engineering faculty luncheons and choice of major ... --an actuary (at the time, it was rated as the #2 job in the world in terms of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  spent all that much time doing homework. I was good at cutting the corners ... challenging courseload and doing a zillion extracurriculars at once and ... would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... at the necessary temperature? And how much product would be produced ... system explode and kill everybody if you operated at that temperature

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  figure out if you really like it or not. My second term at MIT, 18.100B ... a reason. I'm not particularly good at thermodynamics, but last spring ... years after taking AP Bio, and didn't feel unprepared for them at all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006