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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... face. This mood meter is part of the MIT150 Festival of Arts, Sciences, and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  whole bunch of other responsibilities, it's tempting to just veg out on ... summer! You can resist. You have many more options of things to do with your time than you realize! One of the things that I have learned about

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  . Even if I described my own dorm, a lot of people would probably disagree ... the author of Beaver Scope Almost a year ago I stumbled upon an impressively precise description of MIT's external IPs. Naturally, I saved and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  alignment with the 8:30am start time of the exam. And, of course, relearning ... knowledge of a broad range of topics, it will be unlike any test you've taken ... , since I've got plenty of time before I actually need to use this score

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... midterms in three of them (Spanish 4, Biology Lab, and Organic Chemistry ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  MERRIMACK VALLEY OF NORTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. SNOW... WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES ... CANCELLATIONS IN ALL SORTS OF TRANSPORTATION DEPENDENT BUSINESS. SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS NEAR OR

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  -PhD.) For those of you who are "new" to the blogs, I graduated in June 2008 ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising ... ) Classes I’m really enjoying my immunology program. For a taste of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs ... video game nerds. Order of the Stick D&D comes to life, basically ... distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  The MIT Admissions blogs started for several reasons. One of the reasons was the extremely dull, lackluster nature of the old admissions ... of the school that the admissions office wants you to see. MIT, like

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions Statistics 2008 We've updated the stats page.

  

  my class, the MIT Class of 2000, when we were admitted in 1996? [answer at the end of the entry] Probably the most popular questions asked at ... folks to our website, where we offer a plethora of numbers for any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer’s End To everything there is a season.

  

  -checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment. Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  issue of the MIT International Review at http ... , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  This is my friend Kat '10, and she's one of my very favorite people ... meet a lot of extraordinarily cool people, like Kat '10. She's got very ... Hunt winner blogger (my money's on Evan for next year, though). She of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... are at the beginning of Easter term so there’s panic over the last

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  to be honest, instead of thinking, "Wow I've been in England for 2.5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... , thinking about turkeys, and then got depressed when we go online and none of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  that as of last night, more than half of the applicants have already ... tracking system. We are opening a lot of mail right now, and it takes substantial time to process all of these forms that come in right at the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Manhattan, but I'm not complaining. That's one of the things I love about New York - you can find every single kind of person here, even Red Sox fans ... blogging more frequently in November. In the meantime, here are a couple of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome ... and have a great first semester, Class of 2011!) As I wrote in a ... Yang '09, each of whom had taken a class from him and recommended it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007