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• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... , isn't it? Considering that I only weigh 140 pounds, I wondered just how ... that I'm a senior and I can take pretty much whatever I want. The first

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... /no record, ie I can afford to take the time away from studying for my physics ... in high school, though I think I prefer taking it now, when I'm more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  . No matter how many hours I end up spending in the lab, or how many ... makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  dinners in the fall. Also, this is an old draft. I can now attest that ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  classmates out when they were being sexist in my group project. I learnt how to ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure ... I showed up, she took me under her wing in a heartbeat. She taught me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee. This got me thinking, "I wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?" I armed myself ... . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  shouldn't do that. Even though that's how my life has been lately, I lucked ... -as-a-bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  still acts. I don't think I have seen anything with him in it since "Road ... that the movies are "coming soon, in stereo." I think we should play a ... [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  happening. If senioritis has already punched me in the face in March, I can ... still chugging along in the background. Still, I'm looking at senior ... did not anticipate how much time I would be spending on career

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for ... I know it's been forever since I've posted anything - things have

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  less than 2012's. I can tell you how to maximize the strength of your ... confused applicants. I'm not going to tell you how to get into MIT. That ... the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... Prize in 1987 for his discoveries regarding how the body generates its ... Thursdays, I was the sole representative of the project in attendance. So that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  three years; we broke up this past January. Even though I'm still young in ... can offer guidance. But sometimes I’ll see a Linkedin update about ... birthday today. Starting in 2019, I’ve always thrown a birthday party for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT celebrates Pi Day. How do you celebrate Pi Day ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  It’s funny how one month can entirely change your perspective on life ... MIT in general, I knew I had to get cracking on this list. The ... MIT students can get in for free any day with a student ID). Looks like

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  enough as you can tell, but I want to be prolific this summer. This ... personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... asymptotically how can we quantify the notion of "information" and estimating

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  ).  This creativity can be expressed in any project: I’ve built my own robot ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... though the class was three months long, the only thing I can remember was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... until I was nauseous at [annotation note="all you can eat sushi place that ... , which was held in the last week before we were all kicked out. I took six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that ... course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  same time, I was in school studying math and computer science. I am more interested in the math side of things, how physical systems make order. But I ... . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011