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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  related to normal and shear stresses, a diagram of a rotated block with no ... dying to do for years- I went to a kickboxing class! (MIT has kickboxing ... got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... much looking around, and to my surprise, the place was great. A little ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  mitadmissions site, and there's probably not a whole lot I can do to encourage you ... minutes to get a snack, or walk around. I come back, and read what I wrote ... to a small school, and word had gotten around that I applied to MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... feels like it isn't. to see the triangle would be a gestalt, then. but is ... a figure of the form, or of the splotches? that one is trickier to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of ... closer to suicide than i was a month ago, and these are the only things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  adventure to see all. of. the. pretty. trees. Through a combination of biking ... the city. You get to check them out for 30 mins at a time before you need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... they wanted to write a musical, so they did. It was named for three words ... tetris game, or putting a police car or a telephone box on the dome. To

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• 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…

  

  opportunities kept coming. I used to dread dancing the way a lobster dreads lemon ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... to an institute of technology that costs more than $45,000 a year to

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... we shorten to ICE (because we're so cool.) ICE is a capstone senior ... biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a ... to a boston day in the spring, one of those rare ones with the power to ... outside, round-a-bout way to the library and promise that when I'm done and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  him English, and we had a blast hanging out. It was nice to know a true ... whole reason I was in Paris was to work at Institut Curie, a biomedical ... wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no ... after a while more of a mostly-isolated lifestyle something were to tick

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , and New Mexico. When we return from such travels, we have to write up a ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an ... have to drive a long way to get to anything. This was the first time

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Another insane (in a good way) day! Got to MIT early; checked in with my fellow admissions peeps. Not bound to the Reg Desk today, I made the ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... wrong with it.) I learned how to use a power drill and table saw at the ... how to fix them when they “break.” Since the human body seemed to be a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night ... choreographers, so I'm going to get a lot of the technical training that I never ... ; work last IAP, I tried to UROP but applied for a random one that I didn

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  admission-related mailing from MIT. It contained a form to apply for my student ID, a form to apply for my athena username, some instructions on the ... to one of my (actually Jewish) friends as a novelty item. So then I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Adam had finished a 16.100 (Aerodynamics) lab. We got to Plymouth in time ... bought a dinosaur sleeper for a girl. And why not? Girls are allowed to ... blood glucose after a carb meal -- high blood sugar is supposed to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... weekend, I took the Zone Cell Challenge. Now, this is going to require a ... Kerberos realm. I went to sleep, and when I woke up, I spent a couple of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  New Major in Climate System Science and Engineering

  

  impacts of a changing climate * How to model and analyze complex climate and ... everyone else at MIT who wants to be able to grow old in a liveable world —  in this topic, I wanted to make a quick blog post letting everyone know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2023