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• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  freshmen were too hosed last week to devote much energy to study break, so I ... My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  due to excess carotene. So, I'm not Jewish. Not that there's anything ... . From: Jordyn To: [email protected] Date: 10/5/2006 1:24 PM Subject ... that to MIT Hillel! I think that one time there was some form or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to publish this past spring. The summer snuck up on me before I had a chance to, and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  , claiming that they felt the need to explain, and I told them that was the ... common nowadays, but I think they are fun, so I wanted to bring them back ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... (Math) classes than I need for my major, but saying that I dabble in the field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  needed to be, and all of the words written on the walls of the Infinite ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  engines. I think we need to admit more people from Thailand =) The ... trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  , and the occasional puppy labs. For several of us, there’s so much more on our plates as well - training to become officers in the United ... ’t spare us much thought besides the usual “Oh, I didn’t know they were ROTC

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... .033): Same as above. -Intro to Cosmology (8.286): It hurts to drop this class ... .07): Having spent 6+ hours on the problem set already, I'm reluctant to drop

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  this subject. Thank you very much, Sam Much to my surprise, I received a ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from ... explains exactly how the climax of Fantastic 4 works. So, to rectify this, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  the truth, I didn't expect to enjoy it quite as much as I did (my high ... 3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good ... totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  to their UROP supervisors their passion for their research (so much ... Sooo. It all ended a few nights ago. The all-nighter turned out to ... working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  to 34 hours (source). In this post, I’ll describe my (also wildly ... to Proofs, the materials for which are available here). Now, these ... students, 12 unit-hours may mean anywhere between 6 to 20 life-hours. For

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  ” sounded to me and how much I loved Physics 1 / Mechanics, astrophysics might ... favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , I want to lift their voices up: their stories have taught me so much ... people experience the world, I hope they mean as much to you as they do to ... , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  Campus representation, and after much deliberation, we have decided to add ... of us on class council would like to thank you for taking so much ... be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and ... making up more categories as I go. I am excited to see what you think, so talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023