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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  threw a dinner party for a bunch of people Friday, including Sam's Mom ... -cheddar biscuits, and "suite potatoe" pie. We had lots of fun and cultured ... . 2. I got an A on my Pulitzer-worthy essay for German I, "Mein Freund

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... . Jon '06, left, insisted on posing for every picture I took of him for ... on the common consent of the people," an idea dating to Oliver Cromwell

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this new nature. I make skeletons that walk on the wind so they don't have to ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy admissions” means preferring the children of alumni in the admissions process ... give you money. Advocates of legacy admission, like advocates of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  narrative. On the visual arts side, I spent a lot of time doing Blender (a 3D ... editor of its Campus Life section. I am planning on minoring in writing ... .k.a. right now; I took on a bunch of projects that were art and computer

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  already coding basic functions, as they neared the end of a demanding, fast ... because of the stronger emphasis on competitive individualism.   ... kindergarteners perform the best on this task because they lack this fear of failure

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... , or just me. I wonder if she pities me. I stew on it for the rest of the ... selection of microwave meals, which I will eat on the days I nap through

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  This goes out to all of you waiting on tenterhooks for decisions to ... nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... causes tons of stress for everyone.) ---On that "DON'T PANIC" note, read

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I’m going to work on this for half an hour Thought 1: Rate of water swooshing ... we’d put on the paper anyways. I'm kind of inclined to trust 5 and 6

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  A hack, for cap 🇺🇸 spoilers-free

  

  , so did the new decoration of the MIT dome. Sometime late Saturday ... on the roof of the Great Dome as an homage to the Marvel hero. Via ... by the Globe Sunday said dozens of people worked on the project for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  his face on it. This shirt sits in the very depths of my closet, out of ... Admissions, and I’ve worn it on two occasions, both of which I believe were ... after the name of a familiar tech school on the other side of the country

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  , slouched in the corner of Howard Dining Hall with a melancholy look on your ... Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... regardless of what you call it, there are many, many ways to acquire sustenance

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  . Then, we put the text file into the correct directory on one of our ... each of those variations occur. Using these websites as reference, we ... Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , musings on this broad range of topics had led to a number of late ... of the content is all neatly crafted such that the learning builds on ... . Nozick’s thought drew heavily on that of the 17th century philosopher John

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... is in good condition, but the paint on top of it is old and peeling ... headquarters of the society), while I learned about all the projects going on on

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and ... lot of falling and sliding, which took a toll on my pants. We played ... radio part of the spectrum. Another new resident of my garbage can is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  during the training, so I wrote on it instead. On the bottom of the ... ; what mattered most was the schedule, which was posted on the website ... Flu Shots. You can see the blue scribbles on the sheet of paper on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are 10 of the 12 members of Ring Committee. This is the outside of the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... involve an embarrassing, toddler-y lack of coordination. Moving on.) Now

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... time to time. Let me know if you intend on making one of these blogs, I ... of my creative days, it's one of my "I have an entire day of toolage

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008