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• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  ? Also, I'm not sure if three is a huge hole in my floorboards somewhere or ... not unduly harsh. The past week or so a dull thudding began at 8am sharp ... them up with metal plates. Which I didn't so much mind except that it

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  bunch of people that I haven't seen since high school. It's a little weird ... -night, low-cost, low-quality food. Ben wasn't so happy about being out at a ... in a "Y". Oh, maybe. But the other people don't know that. See what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  , absolutely necessary Saturday, 2 PM - I wake up. Come on, there was a party ... there involved minimal effort. If I could cross campus for a Baker party the Friday before, then skipping out on this would only be a sign of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  Sapolsky's books A Primate's Memoir, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and ... visitors. It was a good zoo! I think if I weren't going to be a cell ... actually have a "life" in graduate school, so you don't have to choose a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... music to rehearse sometimes an ohms member wants to sing a song but doesn’t

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  which i’ve listened to a lot over the past few weeks. i’m getting into ... think it’s because i’m a pessimist necessarily, but i have a habit of ... shouldn’t be a surprise that i gravitated towards learning about

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  when he got his first bad grade at MIT, he knew that it wasn't a disaster ... information about taking a gap year, I'm happy to help. ... I'd like to talk a bit about deferring entry to MIT, also known as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... getting a free T-shirt shoved into my arms. I felt like Napoleon, doing his ... about this store, I can't see anything that's really different from a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  before), my friends don't stop hearing about it for a good two weeks. With ... rain. Gotta love a barbecue. Mmmm, polish sausage and Star Market ... plastic balls on you. And you. And you and you and you. Yeah, that's a lot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new ... instrument that I'm using as a final project in a different class. That one ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  % admission rate; those who didn't interview had a 7% admission rate. (I don't ... applying 500 times would probably give a good result, but I don't feel like ... supported by the Boston Globe, a group of stellar journalists, I'm sure, but

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  's been up to while writing this musical. I almost wish I hadn't. "Well, I'm ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  I just haven't been to a basketball game in, well, ever. The lights ... also describes Liechtenstein thusly: "Mountainous, it is a winter sports resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  too much time on youtube or (if i'm feeling particularly productive) a ... that there's no bridge. There isn't a bridge from the mainland to the ... high and I'm an idiot. Eventually I get a call from my friend, Sydney

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  can't do this anymore. I'm heading back to the dorm. I'll be updating ... them (though that didn't really count because it was P/NR and I got an ... yourself in a nice room and do nothing but work. That's my plan for the day

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  things, you won't have enough time to be alive. This year, I'm learning that if you're spending a lot of time dealing with living, you won't have ... to cope. The psets aren't what's getting me this semester (and I'm very

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... read like: Hi, My name is Ceri R., and I'm a rising junior. Sophomore

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  physics at some point, even if I'm not a physics major. But I felt like ... called invariants. Invariants are properties that don't change under a ... where I'm getting stuck, and then try again in a more focused way. This

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , so i won't talk about it much more here. basically i'm just chugging ... this a lot last semester, but i really didn't see ANY of my friends at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  can't tell you honestly where I'm headed. I don't know that much. I do ... forever, and in some sense it never could. I'm stepping into a empty space ... , what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009