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• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . If I choose to stay in this dorm, can I keep the same room?" The answer ... , and who can argue with that? Also, I'd encourage you to look at what ... with people you don't like in a shiny new one. You can use amenities to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  introduction--unless of course you've never heard of him, in which case I'll just ... synced to the note.  I'll keep you updated on how it goes, unless I end up ... which case I'll probably be too embarrassed to blog about it. In other

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of grape flavor diffusion into my mouth. Specifically, I wondered how I could ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... challenge that can always be met. In his lectures, he starts with a problem ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  't have any pictures of the game "in action," but what can I say? I was too ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  and can be arrested and legally tried in court as an adult.” Whoopee! I ... since I started blogging. A year since robots in the FPOP and the free ... ’ve taken thus far. I spend four-and-half hours every week in the lab (7

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  One would think that after seven years in this office I would not be ... will. That said, it's important to check in occasionally so I'd suggest ... and perhaps even an umbrella. Weather can change quickly in Boston

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... , which I framed and padded with my winter coat. Then, in a thick black ... conveyor belt at security, I was fighting tears. At the gate, I sat in a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... necklines, as opposed to 3 in a general snowman. Whatever, I thought. I ... paperweight!!!  This is probably my favorite thing I made in the class. To

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  that a movie is technically brilliant yet morally repugnant? How can I ... intermarriage." I can't say that I sat through all 3.5 hours of the movie ... very thing that you hope to deny exposure to the light can often grow in

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  , but I was Captain Von Trapp in high school and after a hundred hours ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... Abdul hits in the background. It was just then that I realized that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  up for classes. I'm co-teaching an a first-year advising seminar on media and the election, and so for the past week I've been meeting with ... , clinical disease and therapy. Subject can count toward the 9-unit discovery

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  one of my favorite things to pass. I often thought about how long that ... repository of the murals (including ones not featured in this exhibit) can be ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  how to skateboard so I can [annotation note="I do skateboard frequently ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT ... because there weren’t enough interviewers available. But in the moment I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  . Nothing says epic like "ESTA - ES - SPARTAAA!") I suppose you can be ... 'undeclared' at some point in the middle of the semester (which just means I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give you a bathroom primer. Now, I only live in one dorm, so I can't speak ... in the comments), but I've had some experience with the bathrooms of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  long time. At least, that's how it was for me in the act of running. Once ... UROP adventures in a separate post, since there's a ton of things that I ... that I can say right now, but there will be more to come! The non

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  CPW! If we can help you plan for CPW in any way, please call the CPW ... that case, may I submit a few pieces of artwork (they are in .BMP format ... in your team? How many people are there? Are they professors or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  as good a time as any to the students who are still undecided: How can ... can look into it for you, too. I've already been able to track down some financial aid answers for some other commenters, and I'm sure I can help you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  records in the dead ball era. Same for songs. I swear I remember the lyrics ... : There! Now you've got some cool MIT-ish stuff to see, and I can clear a ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011