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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  was my first experience with anything in a lab outside of the ... spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... the time. As it turns out, the name is simply part of this 50s

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  collected data about the number of steps I’ve taken and flights of stairs I ... . I’ve made a bar graph of my daily step counts. You might notice the ... /25 (28624 steps) This was the second to last day of “Discover Mechanical

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  trumpeter Matt P.) the day of our first rehearsal with the cast (the singers ... tubes. I've also had to play a flugelhorn for the first time.   ... a trumpet, here's a picture of a trumpet: They're about the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  internship, during the first week of[annotation note="yes these are the same ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... , during such a chaotic time? (little did i know that this would be the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  , including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course, dropping the leading 0, so it's currently 9/ and not 09/"]convention of MM ... is thus a palindromic date. It is, in fact, the first palindromic date

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  a week, we presented rough drafts of the first five letters of our ... final iteration of my choreography to how I felt performing the first ... academic pressure of MIT, even if the pressure is significantly reduced now

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates And Shannon’s Formula Random mid-week fun, and a few small updates for admitted and waitlisted students.

  

  must first read the email conversation that we had on the day decisions ... first few post-decision weeks the sadness for rejected students outweighs ... whether the job nets joy or sadness as a function of time. A few hours

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  opportunity to make similar memories for yourselves. The first word of the MIT ... morning of Sunday, March 18th, I was sitting at the computer in our living ... warning, the sun suddenly just breaks through out of nowhere and illuminates

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  _grid images="58635,58636" /] When you arrive at MIT, the Office of the First ... screen on the first two photos" /] I've been working my way back out of ... might be after the end of the semester']managing everything

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... transparent plastic top, this nautical party ship cost all of $10.99 at the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  simplify the equivalent of the first 15 minutes of an introductory lecture ... While some of you have spent the last couple nights clutching ... arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate ... than one adapts. So with that out of the way, I have some actual comp

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  mildly dehydrated during the first few weeks of college simply because I ... , times a thousand. That’s probably the amount of hate that my phone feels for me. Marla is the phone I got before freshman year of high school

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture ... delicious. But the conversation around the table was just as good. A mix of

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... others). The following day (Friday), I did not wear a tie for the first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  The class of 2011 all got this e-mail this morning: Class of 2011 ... this well-deserved summer break thoroughly. Towards the end of the school year, the class council announced its decision of a ring committee

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  through the process of adding and dropping classes. The first meeting with ... , like leaving bags of chocolate at our doors the night before our first 8 ... one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  For Those About to Dew (Also eligible for salutations: those currently rocking, those about to rock)

  

  : For the sake of not scaring my parents too much, let's pretend that's the first such item I've consumed today (yesterday, today, 24 hours ... We salute you. They say sometimes about MIT that of sleeping

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV ... , which I found basically unwatchable despite the presence of Xena and the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  disposal." Take care of the golf balls first; the things that really matter ... reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the two cups of coffee

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012