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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  Mt. Fuji. I have to preface this story with a couple facts: 1) I am not ... ), maybe because you can buy a cool stick that they brand at every station on ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  more data i've gathered since then, so i still have a lot to do. after recitation, i walk over to hayden and seat myself at a couch next to the ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for ... to the power of pi The discussion took a numerological turn, and we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... life behind the wheel of a car getting to and from the job that he loved ... just a mess for me to get back to the job from lunch. Eventually, I made

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... memo too. Now, if you're going to a biannual event involving an ... I just came back from watching MIThenge, a celestial phenomenon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  waiting for Prince Charming's white horse to get in gear) - a witch (even ... have no idea what to dress up as. In fact, I haven't actually dressed up ... some help coming up with a good idea. Here's what I've got so far

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot ... the Numbers What is it like to climb a 20-story building 22 times ... , I generally send a request to the owner to use it. If the data is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  square target buying cat food and listening to pearl jam when i got a call ... i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... . i skimmed through many iterations of "a pleasure to have in class" and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  D-Lab Food Fest A week on $2 a day, followed by a meal from around the world

  

  Sorry, I am a bit swamped for the next couple of days with some 14.05: Macroeconomics work. As soon as I can, I will write an entry on the delicious D-Lab Food Fest, and my week of living on $2 a day that preceeded it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  should apply to MIT. I came across an article on Google news about a ... DID YOU KNOW? The Riemann Zeta Hypothesis was voted to be the most ... from high school was voted "Most likely to prove the Riemann Zeta

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time finding someone to go with, since people tend to get offended when you suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new ... held elections to choose the two student reps. A lot of people ran, more ... hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... 's paint night or a movie or going to Harvard to eat and window shop or just a bike ride. To summarize, simply become a reasonably well

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and ... -produced, ready to send to the publishers. It's so hosing but so awesome at the same time, and I can't wait to see the issue come out in just a few weeks

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  to buy goods in bulk takes a different mindset, especially when ... shirt and shorts or pants. All the time, unless I was going to a formal. I ... to a place with an actual winter are scoffing at me right now, but cut

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader ... thermodynamics) with me. Adam offered to take her to 16.07 (dynamics; basically

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had ... -cancelling headphones that I'd gotten from a summer internship would not connect to my much older laptop. Or the time I went to a company info session and was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to ... having a book signing to promote his latest book "I Hope They Serve Beer In ... I'm flying to San Francisco for the long weekend -- hope you kids in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006