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• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... -WHAT-ARE-YOU-DOING-TO-ME??” scream, I know I’ll somehow manage to get by... ...with these goobers.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  the last application I read. People make a big deal about test scores ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... makes a big deal of the student's "scoring the magic 1600 on the SAT." Now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  [by Justin '08] "We are, we are, we are, we are..." The Engineer's drinking song is being proudly sung by a pack of ever so slightly inebriated ... closely watched over by my Director of Studies (DoS). My DoS will then

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on repeat, or sample a lot of new ones? Loyalty (L) vs. Variety (V) — do you ... music? Timelessness (T) vs. Newness (N) — do you listen to new music

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT ... pandemic, with discussions of how policy implementation is influenced by ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] vs the '24's cakes[/caption] October 22: Global Responses to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  he’s been asked to be by his family and his nation, the parasite. While ... the person they were taught to be by their family, their friends, their ... as a blogger vs. slipping silently into ~the void~ because I think it

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or ... turned into a boys vs. girls eating competition, and although the numbers ... -you-can-eat ice cream festival. The event is held by Government Center and features

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

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

  

  junior physics lab with a bit of preparation. By the end of the first 2 ... . (By the way, being a TA for junior lab must really really suck. What a ... physics. I like having the option of 8 vs. 8-B, they are there for people w

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  No, I was not abducted by aliens. I was abducted by field hockey, which currently owns my life. And I apologize for that. But I'm back, and ... event ever is the East vs West waterwar, where residents of either side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Double Edged Sword On Time Magazine's article titled: "Are We Losing Our Edge?"

  

  student vs. what they get paid in investment banking, there's no doubt that ... , "by the time your roommate is out of grad school, you've been promoted ... in lab watching the hours go by until I get an interesting data point

  • by Bryan
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a commodius vicus of recirculation has brought me back to Turkey vs. Spam and ... on Moulin Rouge, had my embarassing drooly picture taken by Chris '09

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the ... get ready for MIT Alumni ("Old Skool Hockey") vs. Aero/Astro ("Flying ... other points raised by this parent, as well as many other questions, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  Infinite alongside falling juggling balls, skateboards and scooters that ... started by students that decorate the walls. This year, because I've been ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  has already increased the amount of greenspace on campus by 0.0005%. And ... time I was by there, this was still there.) Building 16 greenery, complete with golf ball. On my way back from drills it was really snowing

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  real fascinating thing was this variation on Zeno's Paradox brought up by Simon--if you drop a ball from a height of 10 feet and with each ... it take for the ball to come to rest? With a little 8.01 (Mechanics

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

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  know, because one score by itself doesn't tell me much, but depending on ... India we are interviewed by Mr.Ravi Meattle and unlike MIT's procedure of ... (as told by my seniors) and doesn't really come in contact with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  a really nice custodian that would always come by around 2 AM that I ... - all of my history classes were taught by crazily-awesome professors ... one of the most awesome things you've seen? HAHA. Made by the same Kathy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  of the GRAs in Simmons has her tetris score posted on her door, and it ... Tetris live streams. Last December, a tetris player by the name of Blue ... playing by himself, and he would send me pictures and say like “Oh, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  by Donald Guy Oh I wish that I were back again at Tech.. Well, we ... Boston from Virgina Beach… by way of Atlanta. While displacment is a ... weekend, the rest of my schedule has been covered by a lot of the other

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals Week, from my perspective My finals.

  

  a standard deviation below. I didn't actually score average on a test ... say that MIT is hard and that bad test scores will happen, but having to actually try to recover from bad test scores and working at it all semester

  • by Snively '11
  • December 20, 2008