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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  add that I'll buy Jonathan's description, and that it's amazing how much ... dispell with names, each student can be RFID tagged? I know he was mostly ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... this year? teach nance how to publish his blog entries so that i don ... ? i like both, but usually coffee In the last month have you... 031

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  super great at theory in Mechanical Engineering, I can say I know CAD and ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would ... -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in Boston.) Last January, I took a Spanish conversation class in Madrid with ... each of the countries—I’ve put them on Google drive so you can check them

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  else you can do with a microplane? Buy fresh parmesan, like in real ... one of these for a long time. I’m sure you can imagine how hard pouring ... ’t claim to be a food safety expert, but I can claim to know how to have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  regression and imposter syndrome let's talk about computer science!!

  

  Hi, hello. How are you doing? I haven't been in the writing mood as ... was designing and making my website. And I think, yeah, maybe I can. It ... 'm really unsure how to deal with it. I think part of it is because I'm a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  can be and how much I can accomplish. I can graduate from MIT. And that ... I would concentrate in, having taken three different subjects in three ... concentration in writing in one semester, and it got me thinking - maybe I could

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  alone how to investigate inflation in brane world models. I think that ... , and when I expressed an interest in astronomy towards the end of the ... walking in the same direction after lecture, and I ended up telling him all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will ... demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... Course 16, although I think that's spelled "camber". Can you tell I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  socializing is much less spontaneous. Since I don’t live in a dorm, I can ... between grad school and undergrad. I live in an apartment now. Grad housing ... immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the floor in a heap of mandibular disarray. #obliviouscodemonkey *I can ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT ... -weighted average of every location I frequent in Cambridge! This might not actually

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... you can see the wind in them before it hits you. 4:06 pm: I have desk ... Authority. 2:30 am: A layover in NYC in Port Authority. I buy some orange

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

  fictional coping mechanisms learning to love unapologetically

  

  )"]something involving Aizawa.[/annotation] I really can't emphasize how important he is ... out, because I think there's something cool about how I can still make ... . I honestly feel like I can't talk about how much I love Eizouken

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

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  blender. I was a skeptic (how can you beat WillItBlend?) but I decided to ... guys are excited, and in a little over a week you will all know just how much fun MIT can be. Being the blogger that I am (willing to spend far

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  , and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my ... how to swim, just not with any style or grace. So I showed up on the ... laps in our Olympic-sized pool. You can take your sweet time and do

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  On Saturday, I sat in the floor lounge and began writing this entry ... Lost, so I've watched almost the entire first two seasons in the last two ... for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007