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• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of ... at every new cut was a real "whoaaaaa what?" moment :) But though

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  'Oreal’s website, you’ll see the emphasis on science in the cosmetics industry, and ... Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City, they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  opening. I got closer to some of my old friends and started making new ones ... full of clothes suited for a New York summer), when I got a phone call ... was really eager to go back to MIT because of new experiences I could

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... Gloria Chao, a story focused on a freshman at MIT. I also reread a bunch of ... 't really the point of this. It was to read 5 new books, but I think I'll give

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my ... of shaping new developments in the world's train networks were starting ... this support structure, this foundation on which my life ran, of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  pretty wide variety of food offered on any given day, so if you don't like ... chicken makes me happy. Further on the topic of "good food not paid for by ... I think I'm going to be fixating on food for a while, at least until

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  on the Office of Digital Learning website here.   ... slower, steps to a solution instead of the small and fast steps of the ... looked at what happens on one “slice” of the Earth)? Turns out

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  ! One of my classes, 2.008, focuses on manufacturing and machining ... fair share of building since I've gotten here (plastic bottle pirate ship, 4 robots, an Olmec, etc) but all of that used skills that I really

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  's going on. It also saves moments of looking dumb later on. 4. Think before ... chilling in a tube on its own. 5. Have an idea? Share it. One of the ... :30 pm. As I walked out 3 hours later, I had the beginnings of a blog entry

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  importance of not going too fast. Because math classes often rely on ... wrestling with many new abstract concepts in my head for long periods of time ... enough time to practice enough, depending on what the rest of your schedule

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  dispenser high. It is one of the dispensers that have appeared everywhere on ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  You Make The Call So you think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to…

  

  her first year of college sleeping in the kitchen of New House. The ... Back in the good ol' days (winter of 1983 to be exact) there was a ... think you've got what it takes to admit the Class of 2010 to a highly

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  the ~18 of us are generally very on top of things and very inquisitive ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... throughout elementary, middle and even high school. I am now one of them. The

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  follow along on my six weeks of adventures in Michigan, Texas, Seattle, and ... New Hampshire, has some of the most beautiful foliage in the Fall ... Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  This semester, I'm living in New Vassar, the newest undergrad dorm on ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note ... , though, for warmer weather, though that fencing on the street side of it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  crucial part of the semester. And that’s when I just started crying on the ... wherever the food was (given it was on the East Side of campus) and bring ... email”. The one caveat is that often, the food on the list was of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  A New Time, A New Place 2011 and India!

  

  Happy New Year to all of you! I spent a good 30 minutes this morning hogging wifi and using the textplus app on my iTouch to wish my friends back ... last week to a small rural area of India called Anaikatti. Since then, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  -ray facility at Mount Auburn Hospital. Junior year: the incident on the New ... . *They're separated by lots of wall, don't worry. It's 2pm. Goggles on ... am and 8pm," she says. You say that you saw on the website that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  meet new people → have more free time; do work ahead of time so you can ... much. write a new set of stories / novel-length piece — probably in ... times. These are some of the things I loved and would like to repeat, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022