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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  . So here goes: The Burchard Scholars Program is a dinner ... is that the lectures are so eclectic and wide-ranging that you're bound ... was in this cycle is attached: Fall 2009 Noel Jackson – Associate

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  information on the banner above is already outdated. I declared Course 9, Brain ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -present keyboard, why is this movie called bees? (The contextual ambiguity of “this ... “why is the ocean salty” are seeking an answer subtler than, “Because it ... begin with an M, MIT is the fourth-most popular one to get into (third if

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is, leaving you hints and leaving you guessing. This is the entry where all is ... presentation so we decided to chill before the show started. This is when the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  It is 5:16am. At about 4:45, I walked into Senior House. I had been ... 'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... is the only mailing list I ever took myself off of, because I stopped

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , here to talk about his movie, Doug Liman. DOUG LIMAN: Hello, my name is Doug Liman and this is my movie. These clips are from a week ago, which is like a year in Hollywood time, so it's like going back in time for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Didn’t You Graduate? I refuse to accept my new label...kind of.

  

  least be Bryan O. '07, '12? So the purpose of this entry is to somewhat ... Engineering -- so it is possible to switch fields. And it also is possible to ... . Part of growing up is knowing when it's time to part ways with things

  • by Bryan
  • August 23, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  following would have been a wonderous experience for both of us. It really is ... milk is okay past the Sell By date?". So basically, this entry is brought ... completely intentional segue, this post is waaay past its "Sell By" date. It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now. The semester is really underway now, so that means tests and psets and ... anyway and trying to keep it from happening. (You’re welcome. =P) This is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... like two years until I read Everything is Illuminated and found out that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... .03 pset. I unfortunately feel like this is going to be a theme for the ... , and they're awesomely helpful. (Yes, awesomely is a word. At least, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... in the morning. Now, the thing is that my trumpet is on loan from the ... coffee, which is probably terrible coffee, but since I usually avoid coffee

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... been doing this since our freshman year. It’s a smart idea; the goal is

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  surprised me; where, despite the odds, my heart is full to bursting, bringing ... 'm over the moon right now, this good thing just happened. But it is odd to ... midst of everything which is horrible in the world, and it is odd that the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we ... senior year slogan is “do all the things you might regret not doing later.” And that has been a lot of fun.   What is on your shirt?  My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... like “2 is smaller than 3” or “2 is smaller than 4”. What if your 2 ... comparator that says “X is smaller than Y” and is accurate only 80% of the time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  much more frequently before the chaotic workload that is college, and a huge one of those things is reading. I love books. I used to be one of ... is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... 't believe that trying to define what "ultimate recognition" is, under ANY ... disappointed. My robotics team is kicking butt now. They won the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Superficiality Christina asked, Is everyone at MIT ugly? I know Christina wasn't serious, because she goes to MIT and is one hot piece, but ... is my UROP professor, who loves me because I do lots and lots of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that ... digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I ... ’m dealing with in Metaphor. Right? No. I was wrong. This is my fourth attempt

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025