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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Christmas Hug [UPDATE: New picture!!!] *squeeze*

  

  Today was Winter Break 2008 in Lobby 7, a really pleasant way to ... . Were security guards going to run in from all around me? Were agents going to rappel from the skylight to take me out? Was I going to get

  • by Snively '11
  • December 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since ... tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las ... to spend the money. I didn't realize how big of a deal CES was. Then I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  , almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up under strain in real-life structures. It would be really useful to know if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  and i thought about how absurd it was that i was even allowed to be ... only allowed to be at home or at friends’ places or in public spaces like ... , except i suppose they’re also allowed to be in the office. but when you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  home in LA, we were talking about how we wanted to one-up it. The next ... campus to give a lecture next week, and I'm trying to get him to be in the ... that, in February or March my sophomore year, we applied to the Mc

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in that entry. First: to those of you who got in - congratulations, and ... didn't get in: I have a story for you! And hopefully, it'll make you feel

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  tutorial, learn how to shoot rubber bands extremely accurately, try a new ... and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to ... /pastry 4. Cook something, see chemistry cook up in your pan/pot, watch how

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... visited prior to this summer -- received a huge boost from 3D printing. As evidence, witness the burritob0t, one man's attempt to use technology and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  burning of the flame itself that spoke to Shadow in the dark place under the ... untamed, moving too quickly. Gods struggle to survive in such conditions...but dreams burn bright. To me, this is a decent description of how I see MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be ... 't getting anywhere with my biochem studying, I decided to take a break and ... CPW 2011! I hope you '15s realize exactly how excited we all are to see

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  you want to research in grad school, and how seriously you're committed ... , I took the GRE in July, and the majority of my free time prior to the ... life.) I've also been getting stuff together to apply to grad school. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what he wants. Take these to their logical conclusion and you get Demon, at ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  years of science)and plan to apply to MIT to major in biology. How would ... out, when I get to MIT, if that double major is really possible? How ... seems a little silly to try to get in touch with them before I get to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  Spanish, I want to write a novel, I want to get a PhD in media studies, I ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... did to you, but if getting into MIT was his whole life as you say how ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  classes simply went through the textbook, and not how to get anything of it ... close. You get to complain to each other about how long you've been trying ... total - so I took as many as I could, as if the only way to succeed in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky ... 'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  or LA to be a star anymore. You can stay in your home town and make it ... that you have to go to an Ivy or a Stanford or an MIT in order to become something. In this day and age, this is far from the truth. You can go to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019