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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is Classical Mechanics. This is the first MIT physics class that most first ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  , there are more to come!] The title of this post is obviously a lie. There ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT ... going right about the sun is about to set. You'll get some really lovely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18 ... at the student center. Emmanuel is also highly active in the African ... . There is a very real and powerful emotional entanglement that comes with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  could work with. MIT is a unique place, and it can’t be home for everyone ... here is really like, and we’re open about both the good and the bad. That’s why our unofficial slogan is IHTFP, which means either “I have truly

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  year because every week is an endless parade of job applications and ... whacky number scales: sometimes, the class average is a 40%. And you never ... we learned, but for now, my mind is overloaded thinking about itself

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  registrar’s academic calendar) (life has its own messy timeline, which is ... Thermodynamics” (which is the subtitle of this post when said by someone with a stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of "what do I want to be when I grow up" is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess ... . As time goes on, it is no longer just a question of what you want to be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself ... -to-one-up-the-last-person's-dinner that occasionally happens in the house. Cooking with Spanish house is ... closest is maybe the time I made these Vietnamese Chicken Rice Noodle Bowls

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  MIT is they know exactly what they are doing when they pick out every ... question the world around me; however, in day to day life it is often hard to ... assume everyone you meet is more than ready to hop right into a

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from ... post been more relevant. Now, 50 Things is a list that brings up 50 ... with true responsibility. All I must do these days is learn and prepare

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation ... cousin is at her job, working for a public health/charity organization, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel is cool." So, even though I had no idea whether Dudamel was a music ... my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre. Dudamel is not an instrument, or a song title, or a composer. Dudamel is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  became the structures that we see today. One such large-scale structure is the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... street is that this could mean a Nobel Prize for MIT's Prof. Alan Guth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  our new freshmen, Sarah '17, is amazing and cooked a few batches for the ... concentration completed. The thing is, the lit department requires that you take ... , really) has trouble reconciling "Alan Guth is in the room with me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  figured that that's what the whole building was. The point is: I thought ... for the world to see, along with the caption "This summer, the world is ... at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is 100% productive, ALWAYS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  from THE SCHOOL YEAR is that my calendar looks blissfully white and empty ... Manhattan apartment. My grandma is awesome. She is a retired math professor ... infinity, as expressed in mathematics and in poetry) and is one of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide ... ) The most reliable recruiting tactic one can use when holding an event is ... longer want), freefood (which is what it sounds like), and other mailing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my ... adventures with me. With time alone, enough is enough, and hiking all of June ... . Collaboration is encouraged, and my hike made me internalize that even if it

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... -year) deferral from starting at MIT, it is super easy to do so. On your online ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  , and the average human arm length is around 2.1 feet, and you point at ... 2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous ... . [“Subtle” = “non-observable.”] Math major: This problem is subtle. [“Subtle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009