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• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly productive, tiring and relaxing at the same time. I've learned that Python is

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  can only capture, at most, one ten-thousandth of the grace that Gloria ... TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... externalities (which "arise whenever the actions of one party make another party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  junior year of high school I would look at major requirements and think of ... evening class, which was very relaxing because at the end of my class day, I ... all of us having played pickleball at least once before (and tennis not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman ... I had started off with the goal of piecing together my life at MIT ... things to happen at certain time frames. But what we see in the stories of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  top of our lungs at the stroke of midnight to keep ourselves awake for ... of these blogs. At first I thought keeping a blog would be a silly ... College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but ... incredibly proud of her. At the same time, I (and I am not alone) don't know ... It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Chris Peterson tried to describe my life as ... 've concocted so far. 1 box of questionable purpose (If you're wondering, the ... marginally better than party balloons.) 1 night of fireworks, thunderstorms

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  different name, would determine the sequence of the DNA in at least 12 ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for ... of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  subconsciously conscious. I managed to carry myself out of bed at around 8:30 am ... checked off only about half of my to-do list. At some point, I escaped to ... of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  include at least one photo from every month of the year, and they ... the west of there! July I spend two weeks in July at some warehouses ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet!  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  hours of my life. Eric '14 and I tried our hand at some astrophotography ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006