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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  reading the textbooks I got for my birthday. By the way, I turned eighteen ... that one. By now, you incoming frosh should probably have a general idea ... wasn't completely happy with where I'd been placed anyway. By the end of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  by the freshman year, and what support do you give to help make that ... solve the problems of the world," Jones said. Jones was interrupted by the ... . After a performance by the Logarhythms, Jones led a round of "Happy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  the questions above. I would get excited by a scientific breakthrough ... class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of ... would have to create a module based on this paper by writing introductory

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  . After three years of p-sets (which, by the end of last year, I was ... cell phone could not be above 40 C. This would prevent death by shrapnel ... like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... those we live with - my hall won a bbq paid for by our house because we ... about being hit in the face by a leaf would cause such a stir, but the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  Swedish meatballs (made by a real Swede!), a professional-looking German ... pancakes made by Ling '07, who hails from Taiwan by way of New Jersey. And ... find out about it is by reading the bulletin board outside, where people

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  by, like Bonsai Kittens. But I really can't imagine why somebody would ... there. Be careful, though. Ogana Major is under siege by the Imperial ... bolts are deflected by an invisible shield. Wherever a bolt hits, the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  to get good competitions (all by my own effort) to follow my passions ... world by the time they're fifteen. Tutoring a single kid in math changes ... people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  the Vietnamese children are so annoyed by this guy that they push him ... accurate, but it is true that the work done by a chemical engineer usually vastly differs from that done by an organic chemist. Chemists usually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... was funded by the Cathy M. Comeau Memorial Fund which supports women ... supervisor funding. - UROP for Credit: Paperwork is due by November 3, 2005

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  , a delicacy which costs the same and comes highly recommended by both ... 're Good To Mama," also from "Chicago," sung by Frances Botelho-Hoeg, winner ... of "Somebody to Love" by Queen, and it's a song that you could adapt

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by ... that he intimidated the professors on his thesis committee by showing up ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  , allow me to describe the books I’ve read this semester. Boneshaker by ... Systems Red: Murderbot Book One by Martha Wells Genre: Sci-fi novella Synopsis: a robot, which calls itself ‘Murderbot,’ is owned by an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  computer science – I was fascinated by the brain, especially perception, and enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me ... one discipline over the other. My parents and teachers were confused by

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  Thune, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "...Any attempt by a ... completely neutral platform..." Zeynep Tufekci: "..."surfaced by an algorithm ... neutrality originate. In fact, the term “network neutrality” was coined by Tim

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  , inspired by Cory’s amazing NaNoWriMo progress (he wrote a novel). The city ... .06 (cell bio) lecture. I’m going to flatter myself by saying that I am 10 ... way there, then stop by a QuickPrint station in the Infinite for paper

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  to me to risk judgment by other people. The fact that there are things ... video game. To reject that younger version of myself by consuming media at ... webnovel by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu (墨香铜臭). I often find it difficult to provide a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 11, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  yawned wider by the day. In every field I turned to, the same question ... . By a strange twist of fate, in my junior year I found myself working on ... swam by. In the conference hall, we set up our model on a desktop and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  bus! The bus was late by like an hour so it was proper dawn by the time ... slid by, and suddenly we were halfway! [carousel image1="92662" image2 ... unnecessary, blessed as we are by the magic of mobile technology. But I wanted

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  post, it is almost certainly powered by one of the following three ... by covalent bonds, which don’t allow electrons to move around easily. Yet by introducing small amounts of foreign substances (known as

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023