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• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid ... In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  does it feel like to be one of the richest people in the world?' I'm way ... , she'll be the "freshman" or the "bold student." Just FYI ;) ... today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  on the Internet with captions written in haiku form. It might not be ... , why is The prism opaque? This room makes the worst Maze ever. It'd be ... The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  In high school, the boys didn’t like me. A friend suggested that perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  got me to fall in love with the idea of being an MIT student. 4 years ... being denied the chance to become the person I wanted to be. I had become so excited and allured by the idea of being an MIT student that I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  happy to be at Six Flags. My group spent the first several hours in ... Yesterday, I got up early, despite having gone to bed late the night ... Sarah '08, who organized the trip. Also, because I wanted to have time

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  HT@MIT: Foodie Edition The Friendly Toast, Oasis and Teriyaki House, my three favorite restaurants

  

  continues to be the first place I take guests from out of town. The only ... last few work heavy months, think Dilbert meets the Drew Carey show (I'll explain next week). Okay, so this week's HT@MIT is all about the Boston

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  before you could stop the clock. You might be thinking, well that's not a ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total ... following the status quo, I was amazed to find that MIT was continually and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in ... Where in the world is Melis? Clues: laundry is free, my room is a single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  November night. One was to be the first security engineer at a small company ... duties (I had no idea what could be more important). The other was to join ... Information Security Officer.   Morals of the story: Don’t be too afraid to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  . From the moment I stepped inside, I knew it wouldn’t be my last. To quote ... that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at midnight,[/annotation] Friday nights bring the freedom of having no impending

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  Admissions. I still love MIT, although being a student has changed the tenor ... those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  'm thinking of all the work I should be doing instead (which is something I ... " - answer email, be attentive to the MIT forum on CC, etc. To me, this is ... reading season. The "love" part is that I love reading apps. I love reading

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  free time the average MIT student has (ha), so I decided to be like that ... hockey, and I know what it's like to be the neglected athlete when no one ... that he'd be down at the end of the 3rd floor of building 8, so I met up

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  officers. The conference was quite interesting. Some of you might be ... might be helpful for you in the future). Quick news update: I have ... bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of beauty to be found here. The sunshine drenches everything in ethereal ... down the street with the wind at their backs. (It's easier to be generous

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where do Trees Come From?

  

  , 11.125 is more likely to talk about whether the tests you write for ... sherhorosko.wordpress.com So, the question we were asked in class is, where ... and reasoning in the comments... just think about it; no Wikipedia! I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass ... then falling off the face of the Earth (I'm telling you, it's flat, I ... 'll just have to trust me that these sporadic blog entries will come back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  predictions. Luckily the third TESS Science Conference was being held this year ... professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024