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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  a picture with Flat Ryan, naturally he was all up for it. Also, fun ... Sharp, the one who won the Nobel for discovering introns and exons??" Yes ... weeks, 'cause we're gonna be holed up studying our booties off! My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  first place, all for the sake of coolness or whathaveyou. Therefore, it ... pictures, I got up on a ledge bordering the entire atrium. Cool. That is ... expect giant floor art before zombies, or the ceiling opening up to reveal

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  't yet shown up on the tracking system. We're still processing lots and ... for Secondary School Reports. The day after the document is entered into the system, it will show up in the online tracking system. But the fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it ... The proposed wiki would describe the following for every pressing global ... recognition for their work. This proposal is doubtless ambitious, and it's an

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  accepted. The event filled up 10-250, our second (third?) largest lecture ... sure you back up your assertions with reliable sources. Me on the ... awareness and send prayers for peace in Burma. The event was held on October 3

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  for over 40 years!) These quotes have peppered my notebook all term, so ... instinct comes into play when B<0. So up here in the first quadrant we ... don't know, it's like when Jennifer gets fed up with Charlie and dumps

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  weekends guarantee an endless amount of free-time to catch up on problem sets, papers, and reading, but for most, they degenerate into a remarkably fun ... recommend it. c. A fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau: Hung out and caught up on Grey

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition ... up on some of your MIT jargon... Bruno - A unit of volume resulting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  . Unfortunately, with term starting up again, I've been preoccupied with classes. I ... next few days, I will have another entry up. With photographs. I even ... -chemical basis for the structures of nucleic acids, proteins, and carbohydrates

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... they'd set up like 15 people holding 6 boards and you'd have to wonder ... of them, then he'd just calmly walk up, jump 4 feet in the air, do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... year. Not too shabby, eh? Anyway, I bring up Freakonomics in the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a ... even if i don’t end up becoming friends with the person telling the ... empirically speaking it seems like i’m equally good at picking up both kinds of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.

  

  instinct was Method 2, you'd also show a natural talent for parallel parking ... up until you're perfectly centered. (By the same reasoning, people who ... pairs. Or triplets. Or where n-tuplets, where n = n+1 for every time that

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  anyone who could come up with the best demonstration of chemical wit. My ... challenge. I found him the next morning shacked up in the Athena cluster. "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  studying for the same tests. Your schedule is like the food trays in the ... , but focus more on technology for the developing world, you can do that ... ’re busy whipping up some Management Science Soup, but the student next to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  we go! Psets are an abbreviation for"Problem Sets", which is the ... first pset for 18.01 (Calculus 1), a class that I wasn't having trouble ... picked up my pset and glanced through it quickly, counting problems to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... for days. I walked until the Japanese Ghost of Christmas Past walked up ... a generally useless, chronological order. When you ask for a map

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  paper ridiculous. I ended up passionately hating Joyce Carol Oates for ... Jonathan Safran Foer. Sorry for the lack of blogging over the past week, I ... Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. They have a labyrinth there for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  heart, ... When you're at the school for you, you'll know it." - Kelli ... 'll admit that I chose MIT and that the decision (for me) wasn't very difficult. Seriously, I couldn't pass up this place, and I'll tell you why

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  new york without instagram who are you performing for?

  

  i’m starting this entry at an airport at 5am. sometimes waking up way too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport, people watch, and reflect on how you should compensate for your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024