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• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  something to my cello case while I was out of the room. G) My hallmates and I have taken to sitting out in the hall. This is one of our handful of ...  (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  graduate student stipend is. How much can I afford to donate? Again, it's not ... fruit snacks, I can afford a $50 donation once a month...maybe. But ... graduated from college; at the same time, I can still remember hopping off the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  ' through the Stata Center, when out the corner of my eye, I saw this pretty ... in February. I knew the people who started it when they started it and I got to see build this community out of scratch.   I think a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  encouragement I sought out to start MINCE with my closest friends, because, in ... . My love for food, this desire to cook — I found myself in the middle of ... of raspberries. I haven’t yet found a way out. Like most members of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... dinner. So fast forward two years, I'm graduating in about 7 months, and I ... hands I devoted more time in lab, more time with friends, and I think I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... ; Academics   How to Study (well, how I study...) Putting the Organs in ... can’t wait to arrive! Remember to be careful around the muggles when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  just goes to show you how lucky one individual can be. I actually thought I'd lost my round, and then when I went to go put my car down, they yelled my name out as the winner. The finals are tomorrow. 64 -> 32

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this ... . (PS the airport was super cool and I saw a Dreamlifter in real life and ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work ... honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  and I went to see the one of these 50 student groups in action ... ). Although I don't want to give away the play's ending - you can rely on ... One all-too-common misunderstanding I've encountered about MIT is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  and went out shopping last night. I must have looked kind of strange in ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  (!) stretching between the two parallel buildings. In this photo, you can see the top of a lounging student's head. A touch football game broke out on ... Spring has sprung at MIT, with flowers in bloom across campus... The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  feeling stupid. avoiding embarrassment as in: i worried that if i changed my ... feeling stupid as in: changing my mind twice felt like i was going in ... because i say the same thing each time, but every time i feel like i can

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  since I can remember I've been told that breakfast is the most important ... out with other MIT folk. I went yesterday morning with Maddie '11 ... I was reading Evan's most recent entry and I noticed that he

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  psets around to pull out at any spare moments. All in all, I had a ... Carnegie. I digress. 8:45am, Elements Cafe: Arrive from the 71C bus in time ... day, and I think it’s all part of a plan to entice you to roll you out

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously ... posts, which only made me more nervous and sure that I would never get in ... offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping

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

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  .). In honor of his departure from our 7.03 class, I figured I’d dedicate a ... him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... professor, Prof. Kaiser. I hope you’re not too creeped out by me. Also – I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  their research through the SPUR program. You can find out more about the ... I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  secret team is infinite. I said that because at any point, I can reach out ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCRwr-TnJeQ All right. I guess we can talk ... Two years ago I posted about an experiment that lead to the creation

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  paper I read in 14.11: Experimental Economics reports that too many choices can be demotivating. (You may have seen this research quoted in the ... ? What do people think about this Nike+iPod Sport Kit? Vote in the comments

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006