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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... . A lot of people wonder what it's like living in a quad -- four girls in a glorious 500-something square foot room furnished with two sinks

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  is the heaviest one yet for me, both in terms of academics and non. So ... in March, and ours have been going since the beginning of February, so ... instructors to students in the program, including some of the coolest names in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week of IAP in Korea. South Korea may be the Starcraft capital in the world

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

  enormous amount of work. In fact, this "simplicity follows complexity" idea ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... that in engineering, it's not that difficult to design individual

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• 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…

  

  . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... ended up taking "Harmony and Counterpoint" in her sophomore year - and is now double-majoring in Music. She discovered a love for composition, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fact: Architecture majors have to code I don't remember signing up for this

  

  realize... Spring semester so far, the new battle for architect majors in ... when I planned to major in Architecture @ MIT, I thought I’d be drawing ... first project in 4.113, each one of us had to thoroughly research a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Senior Survey (Says?) (For the record, I think that being on Family Feud would be totally awesome)

  

  a joke. It's an ultra-cool door.) I'm in the middle of a tough week where I'm racing to finish up an incomplete in a class from last term by ... experiment in 9.61. A lot of my work involves living in the New Media Center

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 3, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s a puzzlement… ...or why I really love reading your applications!

  

  warm day in Boston today, I still had applications to read. However, I ... 'll go bed after I put in just one more piece, I promise." It's not a ... ...each piece of information in your application folder, is like the piece of a

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  this long hiatus, I've been back in Taiwan (for 3 weeks!) catching up on ... , there's no time for puzzlemaking in MIT usually). Then, I returned to ... weeks. I'm working in Oakland, at an Asian health center there, serving as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... obliging her request to post her charmingly Australian-narrated footage in ... Incident of the Box in the Night-time was performed at least four times on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  course name in all of academia.** It's a history class where students ... .” *An aside: My classmates in senior year voted me most likely to lead a ... , not even by an MIT person. In the end the lottery granted me 24

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is ... ? Well, I'm not doing this fabulous topic justice in the least. I brought ... during long walks down winding island roads. Succeeded in reading but not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  I see it the way I do. I was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but I don ... my parent's house in North Carolina. My father teaches me about math and science early, and I get hooked. Sometime in 2000 I read about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  learning community that offers all of the core classes in smaller classes. It ... .091, people were literally sitting in the aisles of this lecture hall that sat ... lectures with everyone in the class, and then every other day, have an hour

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... scores 2001: Pretty good, but nothing really outstanding in the applicant

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  : Lawrence Academy senior Quentin Smith works on an independent project in his office on the school's campus in Groton, Mass., May 19, 2006. Smith, a ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did it in 1975

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  , gets nine-tenths destroyed in World War II, has the lasting symbol of the ... "death strip" in which you can be shot on sight, houses countless tanks for East-West standoffs, reunites almost by accident in 1992, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006