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• Blog / MIT Life

  AMA Ask Me Anything.

  

  some of you need to decide whether or not to come to MIT and the rest of ... .005 (elements of software construction), my favorite class at MIT (tied with

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 20, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off ... 't drag my body out of bed until 4:40. I discovered that the clothes I left ... at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to ... enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what ... has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  surrounding Briggs Field: Helicopter flyby: Thousands of people packed ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has suggested that memorial gifts be made to the Jimmy Fund of the Dana

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  ***EDIT, 12/31/12 1:49PM: Of course, no sooner than I post this, it ... above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the ... , most MIT staff are out of the office today and tomorrow for the holiday

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen and jot everything down. I just had one of these marathon brain ... for now, I’d like to share three pieces of advice. These three pieces of

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  " come from the Thomson Reuters list of Citation Laureates (which has been a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  found out that 2 MIT alums created this set of video games based on different books. They're actually part of an exhibit  on campus called Games by the Book, which can be found on the second floor of Hayden library

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  Fraternity rush and sororiety recruitment, cornerstones of the ... , the President of Panhel and Evan Wang, the Programming and Recruitment Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... is one of my favorite television shows. During one recent episode ... education, I felt compelled to try. So Stephen, a few of us here at

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an ... Chrome as of 2010; I distinctly remember this not happening before) My ... (stored by Spotify) My other other documents, including all of my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  definitely not unnoticeable among the masses of people who obviously slept the ... most hilarious and zombie-affected pages of my physics notes for October 7, 2011 : Take note (ahaha) of a few things: 1.) The reason you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  ... but I've been really hosed these past 2 weeks. -Freeze- For those of you ... floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... . Tests every couple of weeks (I just took my first couple tests this past

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Meant to Be What I've found at MIT

  

  These first 3 weeks at MIT can best described as a whirlwind of new ... -induced stress (yes, already), and of course free food. Already, many notable ... , travelled to all parts of Boston in a mere 4 hours, had fun at REX events

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 19, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Coming up with entry titles is harder than it seems Reasons 9001 and 9002 to get "absolutely pumped about CPW," as Cam would say.

  

  Hello beautiful folks of the interwebz, It's been a while! Much has ... surprise care-package from my mom (contents: Best of Mr. Bean DVD), to name a ... meet the bloggers! Come to Battle of the Bands! We gonna have fun, c

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  ?...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness” This night was just ... menu, there was a smorgasbord of amazing food from both Peru and the ... Reggaeton hits for hours and hours of dancing fun! Sabrosura was AMAZING

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be ... application of course, or what you want to do with your life, and so forth - but ... 'm reading all of your comments, even if I'm not responding as much today as we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  squads of around 9 with people from other ROTC programs like Northeastern ... be out of there. That means 10 minutes to come up with a plan. You plot ... of higher, and passwords so you can identify friendlies. Each team has

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  . Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of ... . Speaking of 7.05 (how am I so good at these segues?), I told Chris P. about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011