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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  it for yourselves in the next six months. I can hardly wait. The ... lecture in room 10-250, you can lean against the railing and think about how ... in the superficial sense, bearing no deeper significance than that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  Victims.” I bet you have heard of Noam Chomsky before, seeing as how he is an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big red box. When I was but a tiny fetus, I remember counting down those

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  .021, Physics E&M. I failed the regular version of 8.02 in the spring, so I ... professor talking about how he was biking downhill with his mouth open in ... how in his first teaching job he taught a class where only one (or a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -classy picture of how far I walk every day? It still applies. (The fun part comes when I'm standing at the west parallel of EC, since I can see both ... chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  particularly illuminating - and it's very true. One can say "I can do better" in ... In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about ... now on. (Restrictions apply.) I can be pretty hard on myself

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard MIT students actually have lives, occasionally.

  

  /enjoyment in the work and what you're learning. Is that true? (I dearly hope it ... CPR and defibrillation can increase the chance of survival of someone in ... how people can continue to believe that MIT students are completely one

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  Science Problem: How fast does water get in/out of cells? 1:31 am: I ... to? Can I get an actual distribution?) but I’m going to go with that 10 ... pump really does do the pumping” I would not buy these pumps   2

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  . i checked the 6.UAT website for course policy on missing class, then i ... made me wonder how i could've gotten tested for covid if i felt too sick ... to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  living in developing countries and how people could help. She talked about ... involved in. For lunch on Friday, I met my awesome friend Daniel and a ... . Bouncy balls. Falling from the sky. What more can be said? I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  't updated in 6 days; you guys are my American Idols. I also discovered while ... 'm hoping that I'll either be able to find one abandoned in a basement when I ... Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  Materials) that we hadn't covered in class yet.  And so I stumbled, red ... excite me, and I can see the direct utility in the material I'm learning ... where you must prepare, you can’t do it. You don’t know how. Even the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... Montreal by bus or train. I'll leave you with a few pictures... (you can see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  , why can't I?). Also that night, I found my bike... parked in the exact ... icy winds across the bridge can grab free tickets to select concerts. In ... . Why? I stock groceries for, like, nuclear winter... lots of canned goods

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  hour every day. I take the whole hour and spend it complaining about how ... until eight, I saw someone running outside in a t-shirt. She looked rather ... the little things that I'm pumped about, in no particular order: I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  What should I be doing now? Tips for regular and early applicants.

  

  January 1 deadline, if you can. It will save you and us some angst in the ... this, check out the Financial Aid website and also Daniel's blog. I hope ... your interview is fast approaching! You can find the contact information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  misguided nonsense. I read selectively. Umberto Eco can tell me how to write a ... read parenting books when I was a kid--books like How to Speak So ... complimented me on the firm handshake I learned in Chapter 4. And then suddenly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  Hey y’all, My god I can’t believe it! It has been almost 2 months since I arrived in Boston. I have been up to my ears in work, dance ... summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  I have been reading applications for 5 days in a row. Well, I took ... -minute read. Actually, pretty much every reader in the office can pull off ... meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004