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• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  . Knowledge is love. It begins out of curiosity, continues out of duty, then ... , now, strangely, that this is how I feel about physics. Through it all ... research, progress at a standstill-- that is still what I love about it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  . Anyway, some of those comments are all like, "MIT is hard, yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyway, I want to know - how hard is MIT? Because I keep hearing it ... keep saying high school is easy? I don't think it's easy. I actually

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on ... apart, it is very apparent that my friends and I have all changed - a lot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  (included at the bottom), I'm going to post a Japanese song this year. This is ... drama is about a radical teacher that sets out to train a group of ... is pretty cheerful and has nice lyrics, so enjoy! Sooo while I'm on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... should just relax. (The link is to my final transcript - complete with cues ... /CCD/computer communications, that is to say, I took emo picture of myself through a hole in a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  few more shots. My favorite thus far is the one I took up in Maine about three weeks ago: One thing I must note is that these images, after ... range of tonalities that you get out of this is, of course, phenomenal

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  've noticed that my personal yen to travel is particularly strong after a long ... . VI-A (Pronounced "six A", not "via") is a program in course 6 (MIT ... is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  , but there are exceptions to every rule, and mine is not being bothered ... when I say it that there is no weirder feeling than stepping into your ... flops. That, and maybe knowing that all the hair in the drain is yours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  . The catch is you have to be connected to the MIT network, that's where ... , though, is no big deal. Lots of people have done it. Last summer, oddly ... . And then it came time that I part ways with Tiny Dell. In his place is

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students ... have created is part art-support group, part studio, part community, and

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... almost everything moved and decided to call it a day. All that's left is ... should take very long (oops, gave it away). Now all that's left is to get

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  the MIT Saferide shuttle. This is the entrance to the AXO house: It was ... liquid nitrogen ice cream there! How cool is that? There was a lot of free ... !). So let's debunk the myth now...there IS a social life at MIT out there

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  about, but if you tell me, I will, but my lack of blogging is not the ... applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully ... to the effect of I know every area code in Massachusetts and that is

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  is a drill press, belt sander, and band saw at each table We also have a little alcove that is home to a laser cutter and a 3D printer (I ... the Toy Building Heaven that is this little shop is the shop vac. You

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  there are more (many, many more) in storage. Since it is hard to visualize ... fourth folder: The Pinkdex is so named because it was originally ... questions and working hard - even though the weekend is normally a chance to

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  tabs on what I'm learning at this fancy college I go to, which is why she ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... when I say that doing art is what keeps me sane at MIT. The beautiful

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  developed, which went something like this: "Hi! This is Paul Baranay. I ... personally think the second bullet point is the more important of the two, but ... the talking for me. Because no telethon is complete without me taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  , since it is supposedly the middle of winter, I didn't think to bring one ... was meeting with my lab at MGH   Boston Rain For my UROP is just ... science innovation   Boston Rain Although MIT is where I do most of my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  brave thing to do.) The simplest answer is we do it because we have to ... Spring - now this is where things start diverging (getting interesting) If ... ://web.mit.edu/physics/undergrad/majors/degreereqs.html You can get a more complete idea of what is required of each flavor of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  reasons why I enjoy ROTC so much is that there are so many opportunities ... leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... around a rifle (even if it has been decommissioned) is just flat

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007