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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the ... , directs the train to a different rail, which happens to have one person on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  to the ground. Luckily for my head, he decided to let go at this point, gravity took over, I hit the ground on my back and the wind was knocked ... 's when I need to charge up. 2) Someone spilled water on my laptop. Yikes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... for the second time (im on Amber Spyglass), and its definitely by far ... students are expected to spend in class each week; the second number (0) is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  the American styles, which come from mostly African-American origins. On ... highly recommends taking a look at it when it comes out. The second aspect ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  stuck like glue to the bus that took me directly from the apartment to ... ). It took me a while to work up the courage to take a different bus to work, and the main reason I found myself on said bus was because there

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  probably lead you to a Wikipedia article. Depending on the subject, you might ... resources that you, as a person reading this on the Internet, have access to ... techniques for solving problems that I often found I needed to refer to on the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the ... on the Admissions site. It's true that we encourage our bloggers to ... credibility. But allowing the blogs to become a full-on soapbox is a slippery

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table ... powers]: Yes. Lisa: REALLY? Me: Yes. Lisa: Woah! The second time someone ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  DESCENDED TO EARTH The machine is the brainchild of MIT’s very own startup ... and why they decided to create basically the best thing ever. The ... contracting work”), but they didn’t really believe in it enough to follow up on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  diagram: On to the editing ... paper and turned into the undergraduate office. I had about 3 seconds to ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  alarmed. Today was "Laura's going to catch up on sleep" day. I don't usually ... , but I've been doing that since way before my app ever made it to the ... pretty cool, because I like tacos. And it was only the second time I ever

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Some answers to frequently asked questions about regular action and the MIT application process. Our…

  

  report has not yet appeared on your MyMIT Tracking; the deadline for ECs to ... answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on ... 'd like to use this entry to answer some of the common deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events ... auditorium on campus"]Kresge[/annotation] to prepare for the Bhangra ... and the two others going to the event were undressed in mere seconds by

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  've heard that before, too. "Commit to it," he urges when I step on the gas. I ... looks to me: like the sky is a shield, cracking open momentarily to reveal ... ordered me, over and over. It's the same thing David Carr said to me a year

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  light in my eyes had started to diminish, so she patted me on the arm and ... . Go back to the front desk, go to Hulu, and turn on… That’s right ... I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  far too undermotivated to watch the video lectures on my own. Now, 8 ... % on the second test, and then a 37% (!!!) on the third (and last). When ... to become the model student I felt pressure to be, but my plans never

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you know? I hated going to the doctor to get vaccines. I know they’re good ... the past. A bunch of people in our hall told me to get the shot. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... ; Environmental Engineering professor Rafael Bras on the radio talking about levees ... prevention is always the best cure. "We have to learn that things have to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... Aaand… Semester #3 is done! I’m on the plane back home, music ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016