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• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  physically significant counter-example to this premise. Let's start from the ... Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute ... entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  I survived moving to my fall room! (I realize this is silly. But moving is very difficult for me due to a) impatience, b) anal-retentiveness, c) dislike of hard labor, and d) all of the above. If I could wave my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard Yes, yes I am.

  

  equation that related time to distance and could calculate all of this. I ... wanky blog entries lately, I'd like to write one that's not, because ... just seeing the faces of young students and old professors, you start to

  • by Snively '11
  • October 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  you leave for college, you kind of forget that life continues to happen ... blue - I had no idea that my dad went to Korea (and from there, to Singapore and Cambodia). I like to think that my parents were actually secret

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , pencils, pens, erasers, a calculator, whatever you need to be prepared in ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... friends and neighbors if they're looking to sell. 3. Floor lamp and desk

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  many new abilities our hero Link gains in his quest to defeat Ganondorf. At a high level, it allows him to lift, rotate, and fuse objects ... allows the player to build some really crazy contraptions – from amphibious

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... required. I'm probably going to take AI. Then I head to Abstract Algebra (18 ... any requirements. I walk into the classroom and a bunch of people wave

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... Science), and probably more fields in the future. I've also taken more 18

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

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is ... people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  . Drained by the calculations, which to me just looked like hieroglyphics ... I was already pumped about MIT going into CPW, so I mainly went to ... to a building across the river in search of a Boston frat, in the dark

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Sneezes a deep and in-depth analysis of an everyday occurrence

  

  I would like to start off by thanking you all for deciding to read ... is around the time of winter break. I chose to spend my break at home ... winter sun (California) I was stuck inside, held hostage to what Google

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  calculations begin to break down; you try but cannot define a coordinate system ... allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... moment's breath to stop and listen in the 10 minutes between classes, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  leapt onto a bench for a better view, trying to figure out which room in ... : before disappearing again. Back to blank wall. We figured that someone ... , climbed up to the top floor (we figured out where the source was) and found

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to jump into a field 70-80% of the market is chasing the current fad.  This means that if you choose to make a video streaming startup, or a social

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hot town In which I complain about the heat and expound wisdom about the bio department.

  

  beautiful polka-dotted sundress which keeps me cool walking to work on hot ... of things to try this summer -- so Adam rigged up a foam ducting system ... department: "I might be interested in doing Biology at MIT... so I have to ask

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of the campus bubble. It's too easy to go from Activity in MIT Building A to Activity in MIT Building B to your dorm room without ever leaving

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  would’ve meant the world to freshman me back in high school. But as I ... nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  the picture perfect start to ease my wave of nerves and angst, for what ... On June 14th, I began my journey to MIT. I packed all my clothes ... , as some people see it, I signed up for a preview of hell to replace my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  taking rocks and training them to add and remember numbers. Wow! Rocks usually do not (and should not) know how to add or remember numbers, but we ... 's even cooler than that? Training rocks… that STICK TOGETHER… to do those

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024