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• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... ’ve been spending my summer writing essay after essay for twenty ... inappropriate for my med school applications. Three weeks ago, I wrote a no

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  after living here for three years). She took me to the Maisonette, then ... I had a small (LEGAL!) drink. Thank you for all the birthday wishes ... there are"). For our purposes, this piece represents a shift from the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... quarter mile from French House to the heart of campus) for... Meeting #1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... afternoon: a pulsar class for parents, and a pulsar class for middle school kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  unphotogenic). Blurred for your own safety. (Just kidding, my boyfriend doesn ... some of my closest friends around town at odd hours, it was hard for ... can help you with number one, but I have a place to start for number two

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and I wanted to run for president someday. What’ll happen to us if all our ... all of that is actually true, except for the mysterious power outage and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  even leaving for FLP (haha) but not actually staying there until right up ... ago when she visited NYC! We had weekly brunches in our dorm, and for ... has a talent for solving problems, and I can't remember a time when he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... , and YouTube, and Wikipedia, and, for that matter, MIT Admissions) by ... lawsuits as long as they respond to requests for takedown by copyright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  numeracy - trigonometry, for example - is absurdly old. Haven't you ever ... requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague ... other for leadership positions, and that energy sort of animates this vast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT ... virtually sing, showing their passion for what they do. It's part of the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  for the meeting, however, so we stopped by the side of the road to look around one of the tent cities and wait for our friends from last night ... 've ever experienced, save for surviving Mt. Fuji and flying an airplane

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the ... a metaphor for perseverance, academic ambition, or high SAT scores ... set for 8.07 sublimated by Maxwell Stress Tensor puns (I was tired that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  endorsement of Firefox still holds, though.] For the first time since August, my inner conscience begs pardon for the prolific plastering of my face ... exhaustion calls for photoblogodocumentationism. On Sunday morning, I was up

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... my things into a suitcase and head for New Hampshire with my friends ... road headed for the frozen north, a.k.a Montreal. We're smiling

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  for the past few months. Well, I’ve been in Cambridge, same place that I ... in Iceland for the summer (unpaid internship, of course). I bumped into ... for interviews. We finished the application process and are now waiting

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I AM THE MASTER!!! Is there really something that this many people can hate? Yes.

  

  of precession and calculate capacitance for fun, squashing the less ... * There, all clean now, except for that little bit of bitterness that soaked ... greeted by a screen like this: Click It is then up for you, the student

  • by Snively '11
  • March 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  Tube. He searched for "Improv Everywhere Best Buy" and showed me a hilarious ... 2:15 we left the dorm and headed for the subway. I was dressed in a ... daily basis) while Yuki dressed up for the occasion in a suit. We went

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008