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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  is 3:30 am Friday night and I am moving back to EC tomorrow starting 11 ... has been driving me to get up and about. Some things I've been up to ... central and the harvard square area, I realized when my cousin came to visit

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Instrumentation Much more than rulers MechE’s must measure all things And make ... -ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it’s starting to settle down a bit now, but the initial jump from IAP to “SURPRISE

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know ... Pulitzer Prize-winner, going to Blue Man Group, and flirting with Ina Garten.

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... ’s residential Back Bay area and create new, valuable real estate. The proposals ... petition to revive these plans and relocate the admissions office to an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something that I've had to work to seek out and keep and occasionally ... people. That gave me hope. And I also decided that I needed to change my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  each muscle in your body, and understanding how to create something ... year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being ... crazy spiked hair. From him I learned to contact juggle, toss juggle, and

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... , despite never having seen these words before and abandoning my studies to ... located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  was going to keep me from declaring [annotation note="Computation and ... need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that ... to choose, but almost all of our students choose a major and find ... panelist, Robyn '07: "Our small goal is to fix global warming. Once we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  . And if that gets boring, you can even use all four limbs at once ... back to life and riding a triceratops to class. MIT is supposed to be ... I’m now in my third year at Next House, so the long walk to campus is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep ... subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their ... -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  So where did I decide to watch the fireworks from? C! The MIT Sailing Pavillion Now I'll tell you why, after I show you everything else ... does my camera have a fireworks setting? ...Cue fireworks photos

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  and willing. As regards me and my decision to be premed, I had few ... class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I ... challenging, with nothing to answer to beyond my own standards and those of my

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  I write has to be reviewed by security, and needless to say, it's a ... Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt ... --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Final Countdown Duh nuh nuh, nuh... duh nuh nuhnuhnuh..

  

  days to pack, and one night when Javi and I will order Thai food from Pepper Sky to commemorate our last 5.12 exam. (It's tradition.) And if ... you have a problem) and have one page left to write on the linguistics

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the ... from the MIT homepage yesterday, the final day of voting. According to ... three schools (and quite possibly all three schools) involved had students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... check it out, and to read about some of the cool stuff they're doing in ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa ... . Come on, join us and our chocolatey goodness. You know you want to. This ... further from the truth. It really is a joy and a privilege to read

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  hours and 15 minutes to elect 16 positions. Why? Because it is important ... free. My goal is thus to plan the most extravagant and self ... in Chemical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, and Nuclear

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The first of the lasts My last Registration Day. *GOOP WARNING.*

  

  Although I do make active attempts to avoid goopiness and ... a woman who cries at telephone commercials, and I'm actively trying to ... is going to law school -- she currently has acceptances from NYU and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 7, 2006