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• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority ... , Delaware and most recently Ithaca, New York. I am a graduate of Norfolk State ... recruitment at Cornell University. Fast-forward six years and I'm the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MFA Boston A trip to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts

  

  last... This ship is part of the "Things I Love" collection, on loan ... 's website: "Founder of The Oxbow Group, one of the top 500 privately held ... New York Times as 'one of the most prodigious collectors of wine, art

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  , sometimes you just have to take it. But what, you ask, of the website, and all of the digital things that I do? Do not be afraid. We have hired on ... supervising a few new website tricks we have up our sleeves for rollout later

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Just as the Lunar New Year marks the beginning of a new year, this ... approaches for diffusion of molecules. Later on in the term, we will also be ... focuses on the topic of cell biology through the lens of experimentation, so

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to ... provide valuable access to new opportunities. In this case, I realized that ... . On Valentine's Day, I got a message saying that I'd been accepted, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  Institute of Technology is another good technology school in Hoboken, New ... (published on November 14, 2004), Matt takes a minute at the end of each blog ... Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  know, like a computer you put on top of a lab table. Revolving doors ... -up lines   Here's a picture from one of my favorite websites: (Note ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food ... (central mtg in Hartford on 9/19), New York (central mtg in Westchester County on 9/20), Pennsylvania (central mtg in Philly on 9/25), and New

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  This was one of those days on which I just did so much that I can ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of ... out on the dock enjoying 12 minutes of sunshine and eating fluffernutter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 cards that, for each of their four characteristics, are either all the same or all different. A set must meet ALL of the following conditions

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  lot of new people. And when I look at my experience last year overall ... ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting ... , he has a huge container of whey on his desk and is Odin incarnate but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

   founder of Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), an online school and community for people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the advanced math education world.* Here's something that's going on: AoPS and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating the world on the status of those sidequests. It seems that the time for the very last one of those posts has crept up on me. Let's calculate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  the passenger seat of cars; sitting behind someone on a bike isn ... rearview mirrors at a stop sign. I know the streets of Cambridge, but on a ... , getting lost on familiar streets because I was watching the cars ahead of me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been ... towards that. On the second day of 2022, I found myself pulling out my old ... knowledge of proper technique or style, I loved the time I spent just working

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  featured on the front page the New York Times, or that dozens (hundreds?) of ... missed it, here's an index of their entries: 50 Reflections by Ben Jones ... number of comments left on any given blog entry has dropped from 25 per

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by ... of FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts...very unfortunately nicknamed "furbies" by ... 're thinking: "what else is new?" You yawn and ask whether I salivate and breathe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  working like new anyway...and then I did not attempt to install Ubuntu on it ... trying to submit the attendance form on my last few percentage points of ... cloud instead and I was behind on the rest of the mountain of work I had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  season on Saturday and Sunday. And then Adam and I downloaded all of season ... way to meet some of your new classmates. What's the deal with the meal ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  the truth was that she was considered a world authority on lots of ... claimed that the phosphates of the DNA chains should be located on the ... beginning a little dry- a little overboard on mundane details of Rosalind

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006