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• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. How could it be otherwise ... . What if I need those vector calculus equation sheets in six years?! Anna ... list.) The third category fills a half-shelf that I would gladly haul

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  "]accelerometers[/annotation] in a digital setting, and how to break large, complex systems into ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... oops...) I could go on forever about technical details and how

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  mother finally came home late at night, she would come in to her room and ... I had cable and I would just watch the weather channel over and over ... vodka, Joey a bottle of something else. On some days the cops would ask

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  can now see the summer as something whole and fully past. Back in May, I ... . Evaluate on these three measures: i) how much fun you had ii) how much ... rituals, not routines. I spent the summer mostly in Cambridge, with trips

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing ... were anywhere else, they probably would have chuckled at the joke that I ... progress. After a while, I couldn’t have a conversation with anyone in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  would do homework in school, I would always put on YouTube videos or ... pandemic. In an effort to, well, not do this, I've been revisiting some old ... mysterious aspect. I really loved how this show could be funny for both

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long ... construction in the alley. Yesterday was also somewhat of an exception so I was ... crushed under it. Seeing how easily it came down I'd say this was probably

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  't completely worked out how I would be getting back, since the T stops running at ... -mechanical, fully manual film SLR. I won an auction for a c. 1975 Minolta SRT-202 in ... so kind in helping me learn to use the control board. On Wednesday, I

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  , I give you HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN AT MIT IN 15 MINUTES! (and pictures ... in order to do that, I have to teach you quantum mechanics. It'll just ... lot of pictures of Hayden Christensen in various poses. MT: You would

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller line to the side, I asked the doorman about the differences in the queues ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  one. in mit, and undergrad in general i guess, you spend your time ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... that it's a bad habit i picked up from mit, because in college, no one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  , and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of ... was a lot less painful! I thought that this would actually be my easiest ... nothing in particular. Thinking about how nice it is here.

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  , and fell in love with how supportive and fun the community was. i ended ... until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the ... group would be in Burton Conner to help run floor events and meet freshmen

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  personal topics and reflections in my life, which maybe I'll unpack in other ... different things. Even in math, you often read about how great mathematicians ... a good perspective of the field. I think it's pretty key, but in

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  applicants. Maybe they will help you too. If I didn't address your question in this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  just remember being in awe after each episode. From what I remember the ... One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  Hi. I'm in Reno, Nevada, right now with my grandparents visiting my uncle. And although I am 2,880 miles away from MIT, I still attended the ... would be the 38th economically richest country in the world, a statistic

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  if I did I would definitely wear them), and your iPod's on your ... '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

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  '), and where in the kitchen you would hide if aliens invaded. I wanted to ... family history, about how she arrived back in Cambridge - "and when I got ... slept in long underwear), tried to remember who and where I was, and stole

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  Methods In Aerospace Engineering" but I think a more appropriate name would ... in the universe, death, taxes, and MIT students complaining about how much work they have to do. I guarantee you that one day will not go by in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006