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• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  So the title is pretty obvious, I'm modeling this entry after Sam's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... school) trying to get me to go there. I didn't get into MIT." (Phone is no

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  accessible fashion while emphasizing three major points: 1. Cyclobutene is NOT FLAT. 2. Stereochemistry is the most important thing in the world because of THALIDOMIDE. 3. Fluorine is a TERRIBLE nucleophile. Despite the 59

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no ... least, but it just goes to show you how much there is to do during IAP

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... . True story. It is possible to succeed at MIT even if your high school ... scan on his computer. I guess MIT is an environment where you can learn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... and the lacrosse coach are the same person- her name is Cheryl Silva and ... 're a prospective freshman who is interested in the particular sport and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  ANTS. What is even edible in a DVD box? Do I even want to know? Mike just ... ' foodstuffs. This composition assignment is less-than-cool. 10:37 -- Random ... relation, or at least only very marginal, to 10.302. Here is the finished

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  or ecology since I got here -- the MIT department is focused on ... whose lab I work in, who is also my biology academic advisor, and he just emailed back saying that it is "mature and thoughtful... I wouldn't change a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... sessions included: Dealing with Natural DisastersThe New TOEFL is Here ... is very concerned about the stress placed on students and families by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT students do it all night. A salute to sleep deprivation, Aztec philosophy, and grape-catching.

  

  linear time anyway. Apparently, neither do the Aztecs. Wow, this is a ... laid on a piece of turquoise. This is where the priest would start the ... lyrics to "What is a Youth?" in Romeo and Juliet were nearly identical to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  Pods--I think that they can cut you off from the outside world too much, which is bad when a friend wants to say "hello" or if a heavy object is about to ... then justify it with a tagline ("Life is Random") and create awesome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  of this, my newest blog entry. I hear the Harvard Book Store is even ... grad student Andy is in Switzerland and I'm basically doing all his ... few hours and went up to check it out. This is Brian: Over the past

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  them is "earn 8 PE points" and I should really get on that because I ... excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... school newspaper is in the sports section. And hey, you saw it here first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  shoes later - is it acceptable to wear shiny black combat boots (my usual dress shoes) with a skirt? Any birthday party, of course, is a great ... Walcott Lounge, one of the two lounges on hall, which is normally a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  , a very large number of them proudly wear an MIT class ring, which is ... a massive bezel bearing an image of a beaver. Its official name is the "Standard Technology Ring", but its colloquial name is far more well known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  short of a pyromaniac’s. https://youtu.be/ytdqcV3HV4o Is it real fire ... trip. Isn’t it dangerous? Of course it is, but so is football, and ... spinning is just another sport with it’s own set of precautions people need

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  year"]haven’t played the game yet[/annotation], Ultrahand is one of the ... are weird because linear algebra is weird. Suppose you rotated a cube 45 ... way to describe a rotation in 3D is with a matrix – a 3x3 grid of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... winter still astonishes me. Okay, the air is spicy and the sky darkens much ... how "black box" some of it was. Maybe this is how I feel about computer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... heavily caffeinated tea Any "hometown pride" I feel is because of [annotation note="the Kirkland Signature brand is named for Kirkland, WA, where

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  talked about logistics; this is how you get to East Campus, this is the ... projector doesn't work, the power goes out. The key idea is that no matter ... campus that I no longer remembered. The Python bee happens, and it is as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  just to keep my head above the water. 5.601 is more or less the same ... realized that, though; they stopped offering 5.60 which is the full semester ... I wanted to be a little more prepared, because 5.12 is also very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022