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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  I’m typing this entry as I’m over 10,000 feet in the air, flying over ... ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT ... to Boston, and we were meeting for dinner at the delicious Fire+Ice in ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  about my UROP   ^_^ It all started back in March, when I began poking ... Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... hooked on this idea.  In a nutshell, there exist satellites called SPHERES

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  post, in the voice of last Friday. Where were you a year ago today? Ed ... revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but there are two days in my life that felt quite similar: September 11th

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From Atlanta I heart Exploding Bacon

  

  MIT professor Woodie Flowers back in 1989, before most students now ... engineering. FIRST works something like this: every year, in January, a star ... the 37,000+ students on 3,000+ teams in 12 countries worldwide. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  This semester, I'm taking a graduate class in General Relativity that conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  in its evocations of tacky yet luxurious department-store sofas. Of ... inflection, perhaps in a context that makes absolutely no sense. Like: “Yo, it ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  Yesterday (Tuesday) was a very eventful day. It began with me in lab ... prefrosh (Danny '12) is in town and I decided to go on a campus tour with him ... , not IN the tour. I present to you a glimpse into what the average MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... Delta. This simply means Learning Delta. Before you write in to challenge

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... one where Spock says "Logic is a little bird, chirping in a meadow." So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  information that she found in a women's fitness magazine at the Z-Center while ... print out a copy of this entry and submit that. So in 6.003 there are three kinds of classes that I'm supposed to go to per week. In lectures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  To my surprise, one of Marilee's quotes in my last entry about the role of Advanced Placement (AP) courses in college admissions turned out ... , and we in college admissions officers reinforce that, they don't get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  all day Friday in the lab, along with our regularly scheduled lab time ... into place. April 27 (I know because it's recorded in my journal ... plays whom in the first round of the competition by having you run your

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  them in a comment. Be fruitful and check it out. Another question you ... Hillel pin in with my admission envelope, with Hebrew letters that roughly ... in Kresge Oval every year, and an apologetic e-mail from an abdicating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in ... calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... operate, events with free Bertucci's, hallway colloquies at four in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... Charter High School and working in MIT's Lewis Music Library. Also, juicy

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... thought it was awesome that the rooms had sinks in them. 2) Maseeh: because ... ended up in Maseeh and I liked it so much, I have stayed here all four

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i. my first extended stay in the san francisco (henceforth abbreviated as sf) bay area was last spring, when i lived in the city, specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger ... frequently. all in a week's work, right? to wail and complain about how ... dimension in which i get to know people. but that meant that all weekend i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , that pursuing skating and MIT meant I would be subpar in both, not able ... , and accepted the fact that in my 12-year long stint as a figure skater ... have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017