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• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in ... Feb 20, it means: How did I gain 90 pounds? Aaargh! Gotta start soon ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  ), and then Thursday and Friday, I met up with an MIT alum in Texas who ... of the freshman perspective, and compare it to how I felt a year ago, and to how I feel now. I'm probably a little bit more focused, a little

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Psetting on Campus ft. an updated mapping system

  

  EDIT: this post is back bois I didn't know Google had a shareable mapping service and used a terrible one instead so I redid the map with Google Last year during freshman fall, I made a couple of guides to random

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  writing gary wang’s wikipedia page why did I fill out the wikipedia page for the ftx cto?

  

  and I might write more about them in a later post. If I were being uncharitable to myself, maybe I would say it was ego—contributing to such a high ... , and added what I could find. Out of curiosity, I also looked him up in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  Cyberspace. I am also thinking about this week's topic in CMS.701, echo ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a ... being in school, where all your work is on your own 'becoming,' that I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  in how a few greats, such as Lincoln, Roosevelt and Andrew Carnegie ... As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  this semester. In Course 4 I'm much more used to having some 3-hour long ... because I forgot to adjust for the President's Day holiday, oh well) 21W.735: Writing and Reading the Essay. It's my last class in the HASS

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  much better. (In fact, I liked the idea so much that I ordered a custom ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... , I thought that was the coolest thing that you could do with 3D

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

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... above transpired in the span of 72 hours! I've been here for roughly 580 ... campus. Without a doubt, I would pick my first afternoon because: 1) if you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I checked my mail. A postcard! We read it, I showed it to Laura, and then part of her head exploded because she couldn't figure out how I, and only

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... idea how it happened. It's about time for an external hard drive. Once I ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Share Your Story, 2014 edition How did you find out you'd been accepted? Was there any celebratory dancing? Please tell…

  

  dark ages of 2006 (in my day, I read my acceptance letter by candle ... the general store), I can still remember exactly how it happened ... , just didn't shower? Me too. But seriously, congratulations! In my 9

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  year knowing three new ways to juggle and talking about how I was being cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... me for falling in love with theater at MIT? And the more I got involved

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  MIT). This is what I do in the day, except for weekends. Not only do I ... playing games and occasionally busting out some writing. In fact, I ... exercise, so I'm not stuck in the gym wondering what to do. I'm working out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT, Medicine, and Success from Any School thirteen years in a thousand words

  

  school application cycle in the Fall of 2011. I applied to 27 schools but ... [annotation note="Not a joke. I earned a B in 5.12 with difficulty. The following semester in 5.13, I had a C on drop day so I disenrolled. Next

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Turning on the Light A note to the MIT community.

  

  .Take some time today to reach out to people in your dorm. Check on how they ... better than what I've seen in the wake of these events that have happened. I've never felt more proud of the MIT community  than I have in these

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... demonstrate your (in)ability to do this. We would prefer it to be a blog

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  San Francisco, je t’aime nothing to do with mit :3 (...intern in cali! )

  

  Back in March, I typed into our internship database: "california health internship." Little did I know that this would turn out to be an AMAZING summer. I worked at an Asian health clinic serving primarily

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  I somehow managed to cut him off from Math Overflow, he would probably ... software development ever somehow fell through, I would have no objection to ... the rest of the night (morning?). I was, in fact, sitting around not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  people in the room, all looking at me. I then look back down at the MC, at ... tell her how many minutes were left in each person's presentation. Here ... I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008