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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  This is Anna Ho, reporting live from her transition to being 21 years ... cake was enjoyed by all. Afterwards, Sophie '14 led me to her room ... Baroque concept of a keyboard piece (represented by the suite) to a single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  had to be carry-on. We brought a grand total of over 1000 kilograms of ... : I had lizard meat for the first time this summer! To be honest, it ... fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  those we're teaching to a minimum standard." A 2004 report by the ... that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education ... established Davidson Academy, coming to Nevada residents courtesy of the folks

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  Th2, which can be induced by different pathogens and are exhibited in ... (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... Issel Lim has spent the past year trying to create an effective mouse

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  think in new and creative ways to optimize problems that relate not only to computer science but also to real life. 6.046 is notorious for being ... supposed to be "any MIT student," which means that anything I say has to make

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Conspiracy and intrigue

  

  have ability cards that give you commands that can be used to represent ... Before we get to the subject of this entry, we have a question! Xin ... contributor's copy of How to Get Around MIT (frosh should use it, it's a good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  : Carmeuse   Since my freshman year, I have seriously wanted to ... internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre ... plane taking off from JFK when it finally hits me: I’m going to a

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this ... ? Perhaps this sounds great to you, but perhaps you are wondering – “so what

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  complimentary gift from Cedar's Hummus Company that annoyingly happened to be ... classes, in body if not in spirit. Lastly, I'd be remiss not to publicly ... resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type ... By Gordon Wintrob '12 Well my camera conveniently died during CPW

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done done done end-of-semester happiness

  

  of being able to write a paper on a chosen topic. the last class i ... of feels like a fall from grace to move from being a token ... that MIT hosts by actually showing up to some of them, and some of them

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  likely to be young and male. In the 1990s, the average MIT student was both ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control ... -- i.e., that that would be measured by an very large MIT in the limit of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

    a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... Spotify's on and you're by my side Feels something like summertime♪   ♫These days life goes like this Wake up, go to class and then Gotta be a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life see what we're up to

  

  normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... neat ^_^ The day runs midnight to midnight, so if you'd like to see ... now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling*   * except I

  • by Piper '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  , where two summer interns were supposed to be observing the century's last ... be going very well, but I might change my mind by the end of the day ... week pretending to be a tomato. Hold on to those. I’ve learned that

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  , across the street from Burton-Conner (not to be confused with the Sailing ... to be playing a Division I sport (though most teams at MIT are Division ... because I know my team depends on me to be at my best each day at practice

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  time, lol): Me: "idk i'm trying to be positive and i more or less am ... application processes as a way for me to simply learn more about myself and get ... ! ~ Hamsika p.s. It might be a while before I get to blog again; I'm not

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  lying. In the midst of this shitshow, the last thing you need to be doing ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be ... already stabilized and it's hard to work your way in. This is obviously a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  fantasy. Being surrounded by familiar California blue skies and those ever ... being just undeniably and overwhelmingly good. I give expensive gifts to ... mistakes." It's a learned habit, something taught to me by my dad, as he

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  thing now, but it's 12:07am and I was supposed to be in bed 7 minutes ago ... think that this should be a GIR. It used to be!) 8.044 Statistical Physics ... you leave a post with your course history? I want to take every class

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013