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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  as a grad student. You might get to do it as a postdoc. This is ... in town that you can do those things on a budget.) After that, we went ... A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... /D/F, which is exactly what it sounds like. You can take up to two classes on ... apart, it is very apparent that my friends and I have all changed - a lot

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These ... hurling my course notes into the Charles River. Hopefully you do a better

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Road. There are campfires in driveways, where you can stand by strangers ... crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day but it is still cold worked at a big place where people watch games on ... school where my boyfriend goes was very sad for a while cried many tears

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  mostly, I was on top of my problem sets. There was a funny incident, where ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  applicable… you can kind of take it anywhere your interests go. This is a very ... . But how can this be? This is an unallowable paradigm shift! I'm a ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  's room. Waking up to a loud banging noise is a pretty good sign that you ... is a sign that you're doing it right! Allow a miracle to happen. As I ... CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  challenges, which you solved by thinking aloud and writing code on a shared ... that follows is about as high-level as I can get, but hopefully it paints ... you put together a band of the brightest minds in the world, what you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  . '15)     And there you go. Interphase in a ... grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of ... considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  language is hard! But it's hard in a good way, the kind where you practice a ... endings. In ASL, there is no conjugation; instead, you reduplicate or alter ... IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  where you meet the engineers and probably go through a few more interviews ... still can. I think there might be some kind of moral lesson you prefrosh ... solving puzzles using a novel game mechanic, although IMHO, Braid is way

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  outside of the times we're running the shuttle, you can take a taxi (~$25 ... it.. is there any penalty? cuz I might have a tournament that weekend ... actually pass the swim test? In other words, is there a point at which MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  think it worked out to around $4.50 per person, which is a steal considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway ... specifically. But it's college and they say this is when you're supposed to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children ... alarm clock. A place where kites adorned the sky, glistening in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  concepts that you can learn and explore. I also play a lot of video games (or ... , you really can't stop and you'll have very specific knowledge about a ... ."]DRP,[/annotation] which is honestly something I regret a little. What do you think is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Am I rural or small-town? Read on to learn about what a taco bell index is

  

  . You might live in a place with one main street, where the coffee shop is ... airports, or a sport franchise. A place where you are often surrounded by ... character, strengths, and quirks. Maybe you live in a town where "traffic

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • May 19, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  mini-outing-blog-challenge that i did with a few other bloggers where we just tried to write a blog as fast as possible. this is not very high quality as a result and thus i would like to say that this is not

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This is a song about being happy. Not a song about a whale. Sorry. But there's haute couture.

  

  ! And I hear Ankur was even there! I could have gotten to meet a reality ... college card, which, as you've been told many times before, is given FOR ... Smithson, whom he had never met before--there were quite a few empty seats in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if you're my mother) or weird (if you're the rest of the general public

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005