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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... morning, leapt out of bed, turned off my alarm, and then awoke again. This particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky ... grotesque biological slurry of turkey carcasses (left) to 250 C, you get the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  degrees clockwise to face the Harvard bridge, before Kate’s lack of three ... degrees counterclockwise to face Boston. And repeat. After a while of this ... that. But if you were, as a matter of fact, you’re right! I have a story

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... . Late May/early June -- receive a booklet with descriptions of each dorm ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling, Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  applications after spending much of last week reading international applications ... , as I write this entry, I'm also half-watching one of my ten favorite films of all time: Sneakers. I've got a week's worth of questions to catch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  Yesterday, President Reif sent a letter to all members of the MIT community announcing the creation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing ... phenomenon — the ubiquity of computing and the rise of AI. In this new world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  .A. degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in ... A preview, courtesy of today's MIT homepage: It was 2:03 pm when I ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  number which is also placed on a map by the degrees of longitude and ... language. And it’s the only language that all of us in the world understand. it’s key elements are one of my favorite things–numbers. Having that

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  keep my room at a feisty 80 degrees this winter and start a refuge ... “poverty” doesn't always refer to the consequences of astronomical tuition ... of soup), social life, free food hunts, and a dumpsterload of potential

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  learning about the craft of writing, I certainly understand the frustration ... of ChatGPT would mean that all my efforts had been wasted. But AI ... work, I wouldn’t mind—I’d be amused, more than anything else. Of course

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to make sense of them again. I watched TDS nearly every night in high

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  of time and blog. I promise I have a good reason though! Most people at MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... 'm Still Alive. Although I didn't actually type out many of my ideas, I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  cramming for SAT Biology as I’m sure many of you are aware), and then ... , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field – and well, I have lots of respect for their work. I hope MIT’s 7

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland ... interdisciplinary work prepared by some of MIT's most noted energy professors detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  it is true to a certain degree. Life is full of opportunity costs ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  unless they are in my dinner.) Luckily, I don't think the test will be of ... rocked the GRE general test, will be graduating with two degrees, have a good GPA, and (most importantly) have a lot of research experience

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005