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• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... to alter his curriculum from 10.40, which is thermo at the graduate

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  listening to The Wrens and eating a confetti cookie from Au Bon Pain. About 2 ... was able to spend a night away from the noises of the city and spend ... describing to you the journey would be a faux-pas on my part, so here it begins

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  . This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me ... attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd ... minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  ).  Eventually, we, the UROPs, said goodbye to our schools, and gathered up for a ... -coordinated tournament on the ISS. The goal of this UROP?  To write a game, teach it to ... to join the team of 10 UROPs that made this happen. Our first order of

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  well-known physical principles. When a voltage is applied to the foils, a ... complete, the LNS hopes to develop a triple-GEM that has a surface area nine ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a ... remember what this is, besides the fact that it's presumably a lunch ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  assistance this Thanksgiving? One place to check out is Instructables (a project of the MIT-alumni company Squid Labs), where there's a DIY Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  for details. ;-) I was really hungry. Such is a day in the life of a ... .03 (Vibrations and Waves) exam of the term, but once that's over it's officially the weekend for me and I will be running around the dorm like a maniac

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  me and Carlos gently informs me that problem seven is supposed to be a ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... fourteen minutes and dream that our beaver mascot is speaking to me. He says

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... simply as an avenue to become a pilot and to pay for school. I wasn

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  It’s Friday, Friday… hacking Mikey

  

  take the time to relax and have a little fun ... students to attend than ever before. And I'll be working with the web team ... (Course VII, '05) and sang with the MIT Logarhythms when he was a student

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  math is the same way. Don't know about other subject tests. Anyways ... . Well, no not exactly, GREs cost $$$ and are a real pain in the neck, it ... 's conclusion at the end of a lengthy economic analysis.)   ...and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  getting enough sleep, and let’s all dedicate time to doing the things that ... and listening to all the songs on repeat This was a masterpiece. The ... . And here is a list of timestamps that *actually* heal our souls: Pearl

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of ... consulting externship ended up being the perfect way for me to satisfy that

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Newsflash! Guess what!

  

  do is study real hard for the written test...yikes. And then maybe I'll actually get to be a real, certified EMT. Plus, I got an A on the paper I ... continue the streak of awesomeness through the 8.02 exam tonight. =/ And if

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  bridge in the unit of the Smoot (equal to Oliver's height) and found that ... . He is one of the few people to win a Nobel prize in the sciences ... roommate to model the crown ether, and now I must it admit that it's fit for

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

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  sickeningly bright green drink—a matcha frappuccino—and prayed to the stars that ... a rose-colored strip left to indicate where the water ended and the ... boyfriend, my boyfriend, and I all rented a Zipcar and drove down to Cape Cod

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore ... used Handshake, a lot, which is a system that colleges use to help their ... majority of my time to the essays. Obviously then, the shitshow that is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you want to know? Tell me something.

  

  I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of ... about and I'll try my best to write about them over the next few entries.

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  does a disservice to the small miracle of beauty that is this movie and its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is ... Interconnected.is chanced to stop by the store to buy a handle for his old Corolla

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012