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• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  around Boston in this outfit, so I borrow one person’s jeans and get a ... promise to drop off the pants at Baker when I get a chance. Fast forward to ... these genes. Sarah: as long as you bring ligase… its getting hot in here

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  wanted to tie in the Olympics somehow, but no such luck there. Sorry, Paris. So anyway, read on to find out how we planned and executed the greatest ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... , establish my place, and figure out what I really wanted to get out of this

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang ... bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  various ridiculous schemes to get in, since we were sure it would be ... . . . there's rapping in this class." Being flip wasn't going to help me get in ... In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Burn Out or Fade Away Suggestions for second semester seniors: don't take either for an answer.

  

  already turned in your applications. And yes, you will be accepted to ... your schoolwork!). Because eventually, you're going to get to go to that college, and you're going to get to (not HAVE to!) kick up a storm again and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  are you?" and she checked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" but I don ... I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... to get a move on early, even if it means tooling the night before a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  said to me. i do not know how much of what i have said i now own, but in ... the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like ... term or not, but it seems appropriate to use). little quirks in one

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  clubs and classes to do, I also have to figure out how to balance that ... drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... new ones! I used to be good at names in middle school, but that’s taken

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  how to get your own radio show? Here's your chance! You'll also be able ... narrow my decision down to two schools, and there is no better way to get a ... want to do when you get here. With so many events to choose from, it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... point, we happened to be in Chinatown, standing in front of an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  , in the context of friendships (we often assume we are powerless to help our friends resolve their issues so we choose not to help them and in ... classes as a result, ultimately resulting in them not being able to do math

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... [/annotation] and didn't get it. I auditioned for a solo in one of the Asymptones

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  a soldering iron but how to interact with others in the spirit of ... to qualify for the Championship Event in Atlanta. But the competition ... of FIRST is, in the words of Wikipedia, to "promote a philosophy of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  too cool for this sort of thing. When you get to MIT for orientation ... front leg. When the Red Sox had their amazing comeback in the 2004 ALCS to ... Fenway Park to celebrate in the streets. I could hear the World Series from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  I ended up getting to see Leslie in Kresge. sneaky far away ... didn't get chosen in the lottery, which was sad.   AND YET shout ... within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up as anything in the past few years, and this is truly sad. So, I need

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  products come from, how products get from A to Z, and really the muddiness of ... class, it is a media studies class, we do listen to music in and out of ... , and how all of this is a system working together to produce noises

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way ... -stage to their partners in rhyme and to their fans in the audience. The

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011