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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life A play-by-play of my day, along with some pictures.

  

  she’s the housemaster of East Campus) =) 5:05 PM- 6:00 PM: Went to my ... papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Are We Dating? Till blogging do us part

  

  close to me in pictures. Plus we do a lot of fun things together Sam ... . Komen Breast Cancer Race for the Cure: We also try to visit New York ... forests of Santa Cruz, CA Back at MIT, we have taken PE yoga together

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dass ein Ende mit mir haben muss ...und mein Leben ein Ziel hat.

  

  with a chance of you're not going to get a blog entry this week. I want to complain, but, hey, it's pretty much the same for ninety percent of ... -yo. According to academic regulations, classes that have final exams aren

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow ... that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  . You would sort of think that kind of time would inspire me to study 5.60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the ... ) during the last dinner of the week in Unos! Can’t wait to be counselors

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group ... formulaic approach to life for the purpose of college admissions. I may have ... in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  scores at the time of EA selection, we'll simply defer an applicant to ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note ... to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of ... oscilloscope"][/annotation] At the end of 2.678, I have to return the Analog

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  the end of this they’ll have worn away my aversion to all things comp ... ’s a college thing but part of me feels like I’ve gotten away with ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... to be wearing it the wrong way. The symbolism of my brass rat ... 'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... 1. As you apparently know already, Neil Gaiman came to speak at MIT ... an overachiever =P), there's not much else to say. Except that the part

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  a video of a monkey reacting to a magic trick, that's exactly how I ... to one of two outputs. So if we treat the single photon as a particle ... lab. The main application of this effect (as far as I know) is to make

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  of how there are so many dimensions to MIT. Angela: what is this work ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a ... " and "easy easy" instead of the solution Audrey: ok i'm going to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... ... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  first real snow!! wow so magical

  

  and behold -- snow was finally upon us!!!! at 3 pm i walked to [annotation note="grocery store in the student center"]laverde's[/annotation] to ... them and was immediately seized by the need to try them, even though i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in ... holidays because a lot of our extended family doesn't live within a drivable ... packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Q & A Answers to questions on being in a fraternity.

  

  that being in a fraternity gives you access to a lot of upperclassmen who ... In response to my latest entry on being in a fraternity: Leo asked ... )? 2. Is it a expensive activity to pursue? My response: 1. While I can

  • by Bryan
  • June 18, 2006